20 Respects to Love Your Parents

Acquiescent Respect
Emotional Care
Listening to parents without talking back

Care Respect
Physical Care
Making sure parents are comfortable in every single way. Provide caregiving and services
Funeral Respect
Spiritual Care
Mourning and burying elders in a respectful way, building graves at respectful places
Linguistic Respect
Emotional & Spiritual Care
Use of honorific language, proper language. Speaking with a kind expression and caring voice
Presentational Respect
Physical & Spiritual Care
Etiquettes and manners of dealing with parents. Polite and appropriate decorum. Holding proper manners at home and outside.
Sharing Lifetime Respect
Physical, Financial, Emotional & Spiritual Care
Spending time with parents, offer companionship and the shared experiences. Multigenerational household
Spirit Care Respect
Emotional & Spiritual Care
Doing the right thing make parents proud, increasing their own sense of self-esteem and life satisfaction

Ancestor Respect
Emotional Care
Commemorating ancestors and making sacrifices for them

Celebrative Respect
Emotional Care
Celebrating birthdays or other events in honor of parents
Gift Respect
Physical & Emotional Care
Giving gifts or favors when visiting parents or other occasions, e.g. presiding meetings
Money Respect
Physical & Spiritual Care
Save parents' money, share their financial burden, support them financially, and protect their retirement savings
Salutatory Respect
Emotional Care
Bowing or saluting parents, greeting them, exhibiting proper body language of respect
Sibling Respect
Emotional & Spiritual Care
Getting along with siblings and helping each other. Parents are happy to see their children love each other
Victual Respect
Physical & Emotional Care
Food provision to parents, taking their preferences into account, e.g. their favorite food. Pay for parents in restaurants

Appreciative Respect
Emotional Care
Having a grateful heart for parents by expressing it in both words and actions.

Consultative Respect
Emotional Care
Consulting parents in personal and family matters. Seeking for advice
Legacy Respect
Emotional & Spiritual Care
Forever holding parents in heart by passing family names and values to younger generations
Precedential Respect
Physical & Spiritual Care
Allowing parents to have priority in distributing goods and services. Elders first.
Self Respect
Emotional & Spiritual Care
Self-esteem, self-care, self-sufficient, doing the right thing, living with dignity, e.g. be self-supporting as adult children
Spatial Respect
Physical & Emotional Care
Having parents sit at a place of honor, furnishing them with a comfortable seat, securing a comfortable atmosphere for them