Examples of people’s responses to: Ways I show Respect to Others
- Accept others’ cultures
- Acknowledge and greet people
- Acknowledge differences
- Acknowledge elders wisdom
- Acknowledge when people are right
- Allay someone’s anxiety
- Allowing people the freedom to make their own choices
- Anonymous kindness
- Be a good listener
- Be fair with others
- Be genuine
- Be neighbourly like making a meal for someone if they aren’t well or taking in their mail when they are away
- Be there for others
- Being courteous
- Compassion
- Connecting with people
- Consideration
- Disagree honestly and openly & with acceptance for the other’s view
- Do not ask others to do something I am not willing to do myself.
- Do not judge people by how they look
- Don’t let people down
- Don’t criticise
- Don’t patronise people
- Don't say anything that I wouldn't want someone to say to me
- Fairness
- Give encouragement/surprises
- Give people choice
- Give people the freedom to grow
- Give without expectation
- Giving the limelight to others
- Good manners
- Help people see the consequences of their choices
- Helping an elderly person when they need it
- I don't make people do things they don't want to do.
- I don't talk back.
- I help people when they are hurt.
- I respect the opinion of others even if I disagree with them
- If you have some respect for people as they are you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are (John W Gardener)
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless (Mother Teresa)
- Letting go of control – let others do things their way
- Listening to silence
- Live my beliefs (integrity)
- Looking for the good in others
- Never lie to my friends and I treat people honestly and fairly
- Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up (Jesse Jackson)
- Not talking when others are talking and I always listen to them with genuine interest.
- Not teasing, talking back,or by being gross.
- One other way I am respectful is I never hurt people or say something to hurt their feelings.
- One time I helped an elderly person cross the street.
- Politeness
- Praise
- Putting yourself in the place of the other person
- Respect privacy
- Respecting volunteers
- Reward for achievement
- Saying please & thank you
- Scouting movement – their principles
- Sharing
- Smile
- Talk politely
- Talk to my friends
- The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual (Millicent Carey McIntosh)
- Tolerance
- Try to give to others regularly
- Volunteering
- Wearing appropriate clothes
- Work together on common goals
