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Living Values Activities Books 
This series offers a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents

Living Values Education (LVE) is a values education program. It offers teachers and facilitators a variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to enable children and young adults to explore and develop 12 key universal values: Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Peace, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance, and Unity. LVE also has special materials for use with parents and caregivers, children affected by war and children affected by earthquakes. 

In the months ahead, we'll be bringing into focus each of the values explored by LVE, excerpting from the books selected ideas and activities on each value. In the last edition the focus was on peace; this edition focuses on respect.

To know one's own worth and to honor the worth of others is the true way to earn respect. Respect is an acknowledgement of the inherent worth and innate rights of the individual and the collective. These must be recognized as the central focus to draw from people a commitment to a higher purpose in life.

 - Living Values: A Guidebook 

What is respect? What does it mean to you? When do you feel most full of self respect? How do you feel when others give you respect -- and disrespect? How do you feel when you give respect from your heart to others? What would respectful relationships give to the world? Do parents teach respect most powerfully when they give respect -- to everyone? What would the world be like if every person had respect for the inherent worth and innate rights of every individual? Perhaps reflect on your own positive qualities a couple of times in the next few days. Experiment with giving respect to people that you may not usually even "see" during your busy day. 

You can read an excerpt on respect from Living Values: A Guidebook to stimulate thought; please click as indicated below for activities on Respect for Parents, Children and Young Adults. Young adults may wish to explore a few of the ideas with family or friends while parents may wish to take up some of the activities with their children. And do let us know how you get on or if you've got other experiences or activities you'd like to share! 

"The present historical juncture has been rightly called ‘the democratic moment,’ when human values are in the ascendant It is now a generally accepted thesis that at the heart of the development thrust must be respect and concern for the individual."

Mr. Samuel Insanally, President of the Forty-Eighth Session
of the UN General Assembly, October, 1993