Teach your children to respect you (their parents) and other family members in the home. This will be the foundation to teaching them to respect other people. If it is not happening in the home it is unlikely to happen outside of the home.
We have a respect policy in our house. Our children are expected to respect us and what we say, to respect their siblings by the way they speak to them and treat them, and to respect others that enter our house by the way they act and greet them.
For instance, our children have to stop and listen when we’re talking to them and then they have to respond with a “Yes Dad” or “Yes Mom.” They have to make eye contact with us. And we insist on a verbal response to our requests or discussions.
If people come over for a visit, they must greet them properly - complete with a handshake and a "nice to meet you."
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