You Want to Save Your Child? First, Let It Hurt – Children’s Day Special

Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji, I am Pratik and I have been trying to learn from you for the past two years now and have been an active participant for more than a quarter now. So my question is related to the upbringing of children. Time and again, you have emphasized that changing parents themselves is the prime focus of this aspect, and I understand the rationale behind that. But then there is another fact, Acharya Ji, that it’s not only the parents, there’s the total world out there which plays an important part in the conditioning of the child.

So particularly with respect to schooling and the education aspect of it; I have a 1.5-year-old daughter now. So, if I feel that I should not send her to school because there are teachers and other children over there who are obviously as unaware as us, it will play a lot of role in the conditioning of the child. So why send her to school in the first place if we can teach the academic subjects? Because academics are also very important, we can teach her the academic subjects at home; but then discipline becomes a very big aspect of it, because schools and other educational spots, from age-old experience, have a very well-designed curriculum and discipline.

So my question is: what can be an alternate measure so that we can save the child right from, like who are just about to go out in the world? How can we save them from getting conditioned by people and can give them academic knowledge?