How do you show your respect for you parents?

@haopee (493)
Philippines
August 15, 2011 10:05pm CST
In my country, whenever I need to leave my mom's premise, I need to kiss her on the cheek. And she doesn't like me to have the back of her hand placed on my forehead but she allows for others to do it to her. Cheek kissing is a universal form of greeting another person. I've read in Wikipedia that there is a wide range of places that use the cheek kissing gesture such as North America, Latin America,Southern Europe, Netherlands, Macau, the Arab World and Turkey but what about India, China, Japan, India or even Russia? Share your thoughts...
3 responses
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
In our country, We kiss cheek to greet and show respect to our parents, even relatives...
@haopee (493)
• Philippines
17 Aug 11
Same here. If we have 12 aunts and uncles, we have to kiss all of them including their husbands and wives.
@xuyxuy (432)
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Showing respect to our parents is very important. To us in our family, whenever we arrive home, we always hug and kiss our parents along with getting their hands and putting it on our forehead. We always do that to show our respect to them. Whenever we leave our small abode way back in our hometown, we also kiss our parents and hug them before leaving. I think showing respect to them is one way of showing how we love them as our parents.
@haopee (493)
• Philippines
17 Aug 11
The smaller the abode the closer the family, that's what I like to say. Most families who live in smaller homes have closer relationships than very rich ones, don't you think? But, I'm not saying that rich families don't love each other, it's just when you live in a smaller house with a large tendency to sleep together and eat together, bondings become stronger.
@kwylima (451)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Yes! This is the most common way to show your respect.In my country we Alain ask for bless and the we kiss each hoer hands. I think it greed and hope everybody all over the world still doing that. So we can keep a little bit of love in this crazy earth. Take care!
@haopee (493)
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Hi kwylima. What's an Alain? Since I live in a conservative country, a kiss on the cheek or the back of their hand on our forehead called "mano" is still widely practiced here.