I think my blog is really moody (or something), or maybe it’s my web host. I’m considering switching when my plan expires.

It always shocks me when young men and women are blatantly disrespectful to their elders. Respecting my elders is something my parents have taught me from a young age. Disrespecting your elders is a quick way to lose my respect.

You said, “woe to their future spouses who will surely get a fight to the death of who’s right or be “put in their place” continually!”

One thing my parents told me recently is that we need to learn to accept each others’ differences for that reason. They’ve told me that there are things about each other that they could let “drive the nuts”, but they’ve just accepted it and learn to live with it.

That’s something I’d think you’d develop having siblings because my siblings certainly do things I don’t always like, but I just have to learn to accept that. (Not referring to anything serious, just personality quirks and ways of doing things.)

You’re welcome (for the article). It’s also good to hear that respecting your elders is important from your elders!

May Adonai bless you!
Lisa

All I can do is agree with this article and hope that others will think it through.
Unfortunately, the more I run into young men and ladies who think it is ok to become authority over their elders, the more I am dismayed that they have done it with their parents’ permission. It is shocking and sad to me that a Believer with access to the Word of God (in whatever version) would skip over passages about respecting their elders just to get their point across and prove to the elder that they are wrong and the younger is the one who is correct.
Honestly, even adults don’t correct each other continually, to make the point unless it is a position where there is a place of authority or the authority has been given to one to do so. Children – younger adults – 20 years junior to the adult in most cases would not be in the position of authority or friendship to be allowed a position of correcting the adult.

Woe to the parents of these children, and woe to their future spouses who will surely get a fight to the death of who’s right or be “put in their place” continually!

I would never allow or approve of my children speaking in such a manner unintentionally or otherwise to an adult, and frankly, the young men and women who have treated me in this manner have lost my children as their friends, because my children will not be friends with someone who has such disrespect for their parents.
My children are very cautious when speaking in contradiction to an adult and would never do it forcefully, in authority or repeatedly.
I am definitely blessed in that area.

Thanks for your article. It is good to read these things from the viewpoint of a younger lady.

Shalom~
Mrs. Dixon