Importance of Respect to Classmates

The concept of respect can mean anything from tolerating others' differences to being an active and attentive listener. Since children spend a great deal of time outside the home in a classroom setting, learning about respect often begins with interactions with classmates. Nurture your child into becoming a respectful, caring and tolerant young person.

  1. Diversity

    • The nation, along with the rest of the world, is rapidly becoming a more richly diverse place. The sooner a child is instilled with an understanding of basic respect for people and their differences, whether religious, ethnic or political, the easier it will be for him to develop a healthy appreciation and respect for them. Even if a child resides in an area that is not varied culturally or otherwise, it is vital that he learns about concepts such as tolerance and respect. If a child has respect for others, it broadens his chances his life, from his academic path to his career. A January 2011 article on the website KidsHealth reports that appreciation of differences makes a person more well-rounded in life, leading the way for more ideas, innovation and ultimately, success.

    Media Influence

    • Respect in classroom settings helps provide children with a healthy foundation in life. Children are bombarded these days from a young age by media imagery, much of it violent or simply mean-spirited. A positive classroom environment of respect and consideration can counterbalance those sometimes influential images and situations.

    Kindness

    • Respect among children in the classroom is important because not only can it put a smile on the face of the person receiving the respect, it can do the same for the person offering it as well. If a child displays empathy, sensitivity and caring for other people, it can increase his own self-esteem. By showcasing those qualities, a child concentrates on the positive aspects of others, in turn encouraging him to concentrate of the positive aspects of himself.

    Teamwork

    • Respect amongst classmates can teach children about the concept of teamwork. Solid collaborative skills can provide children with a lifetime of opportunities, beginning while they're still in school and continuing as they develop a career path later in life. Teamwork promotes traits and skills such as support, interpersonal communication, dependability, honesty and multitasking, all of which can come in handy whether you're part of a project team on the job or working on a group physics project in high school. Respect is about compromising, solving problems together, seeing things from the other person's point of view, sharing and negotiation.

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