Personal responsibility means when something is not going well, or someone is not behaving to my satisfaction, I must go inside and look to what is going on with me that is creating the discord in my life.
When we can identify our parents and even our children’s faulty thoughts and beliefs that are creating upheaval in their lives, we have to step down from our pedestal of genetic and human cootie immunity and look into our own psyche and see how these thoughts and beliefs are playing out in our own lives.
The difference between the two words, reacting and responding, can be very subtle. In the context of psychology though, knowing the difference between the two will make or break you.