So basically What I’ve noticed throughout my life (especially my teenage years), is that adults will use the fact that they’re older, to act like they have power over me, as if you don’t fall them “yes sir or no sir”, then they will make you repeat it until you do. This is a huge problem in school, because I had this one teacher is freshman year who told the whole class that if they didn’t call her yes ma’am, then we would all get detention. However, last year when I got my first job, I met this dude in his 30s who worked with us, and he was literally probably one of the most nicest adults I’ve ever met. He never asked for respect, and he talked to us younger guys as if we were his age. To this day I still talk to him occasionally, but it also has me thinking. If adults want us to respect them, punishing us if we don’t, only makes us dislike you.