You can't earn respect beating it into someone. You have to earn respect the old fashioned way. You earn your child's respect by being a mentor and role model. Just because you fathered a child doesn't mean they have to respect you -- that's the biggest mistake bad parents make. They assume. Kids don't owe you shit. But they will respect you if you are worthy of respect.
Beating = fear-based environment. Eventually, the child grows enough to no longer fear you, then they lash out with the fury of years of built up anxiety. The result is usually none too pleasant.
We got beatings as kids. I would never raise a hand to my kids though. I love them too much to fail them that badly as a parent.
Bad Parents: Underrated Topic.
More often than not, Mothers OR Fathers deal with their own children the way you see a supervisor deals with a employee by reinforcing the notion that one person being the child, is at the mercy of the adult just by living at home with the Mother or Father. That is the way that parenting has evolved in the environment that is attached to what going to school stands for which is much more than being just so-called "school smart". I am mentioning this based on the facts of life since one of them is that there have always been legendary bullies in many schools who are about equal to a person who has the power to be the boss of a person who works under him.
By simply mentioning what it takes to earn respect the old-fashioned way, that makes me believe in the old-school values that different types of people have when they are raised with the longevity that gives them the life span to be responsibly for themselves by the time they at least become college age adults.
Being a mentor and a role model is a label that comes from more than a parent, especially when the words mentor and role model really work in significant school settings where the teacher, instructor, guidance counselor, or professor/philosopher is actually at least trying to be a mentor or a role model. My point is that many parents do not care for their children enough and that is part of the reason why they fail their own kids being a son or a daughter.
