Om Swami addressing audience questions at a discourse held in Singapore recently.
The question is, “what is the best way to raise small children?” They will raise you. They will repeatedly, routinely tell you what’s the best way. There was a priest once who was an authority on parenting. He had a sheet called the Ten Commandments of Parenting. Anytime he would read out anybody’s vows or conduct a marriage ceremony, he would give them to the couple. He would say read it, you would need this. In due course he got married and he had his first child. After he had his first child, he changed the title to the ten principles of parenting. They were no longer the ten commandments of parenting. Some more time passed and he had his second child. Once again, he changed the title of the sheet to say ten tentative guidelines to parenting.
I would say do not lecture children. Do not treat them like adults. Were you really chanting god’s name when you were thirteen or fourteen year of age? Were you so together at that time? Every adult has this very wrong view about himself or herself that they were so obedient when they were young.
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