You must do as you're told, she's your mother.

Even if what she tells you to do is unreasonable and unfair.

Even if it's disrespectful towards you.

Even when she doesn't give you respect in kind.

Even when you've never been shown what respect actually looks like.

Even if she barks orders, screams like a banshee, doles out disproportionate or abusive punishments and verbally abuses you.

Even if she's not a respectable person, someone who drinks and smokes all day, gives her children no attention, deprives them of all material wants and needs and is a conceited, rude, spiteful, immature and abusive individual.

....

I've always had a ton of disdain for the 'respect your elders' principle. I mean sure, respect them the same way you respect everyone else, with common human decency. But at least when I was growing up, respect didn't really mean respect. It meant deference, obedience, and showing nothing but tolerance and acceptance towards their questionable or even abusive behaviour.

Also, just because you are elder does not mean you are better than me. You are a fallible human being. You are not any more deserving of respect than I am. Treat me with respect, and you will be treated as such in return, and vice versa.