Do We Obey Our Elders

[arti]

Family is consists of our parents,grand parents,sisters,brothers, and there are young and older people in our family.
When the elders restrict us about somthing then we obey them or not?

The question here is do we really obey our elders or we just think that whatever they say or believe in is useless???

[megrisoft]

Arti, this depends on the situation. Neither always they are right nor we . But its our duty to obey them. We have to listen them, think about their said words and then follow any path. But always keep respect for them in our mind and heart.

[India1989]

Yes ofcourse lots of us obey them and some of us don't. I atleast obey them most of the time. Sometimes i don't though. But that is not of a very big deal.

[sunilkumar]

I don't think orphan obey their parent ... i mean to say child those who are been neglected by their parent

But those who are not orphan they must respect their parent they should understand they are lucky... always remember one thing no person have same thought so we will always going to have conflict with our parents ... we all know they love us they do care for us so we are so free to say all the things against them... because of this conflict arise.... but being a good child me must understand what our boundry is, elders are always elder they can be wrong but our behavior matter lot.... Don't allow any elder to say you sorry .... other wise you are looser ...

I was the youngest in my family ....

I never had any fight with my elder or younger sister.... we have lot of clash just like every brother and sister ...but i was never violent with my elder or younger sister.

Now when i see in my past... i only see their love for me .... nothing else. Even if I think why i was angry on some issue with my sister in past i feel i was stupid ...:D

There can be many things on which my thought can conflict with my parent but that never means i should not respect them... If we believe our thinking is progressive then we should justify our thinking to our parents.

Be a good listener.
When your parent are shouting on you at that time try to understand their feeling and position in society.
Put yourself at your parents position and try to think.

Doing all those thing ....For most of conflict you will get answer & correct path...

[julie]

we obey them or not????? i guess a poll shld be takin on that.
but one thing is always there,when a parent or an elder puts so many restrictions on the younger people in the family,it turns them into rebellious people.....its the truth,,,,,,mayb it happens subconciously..... The issue of generation gap also comes into the scene.Elders feel and say what is right from their point of view with their minds still in the past(most of them). :D