A questioner, a father of a teenage daughter, expresses concern about her upbringing in the age of social media and asks for guidance on how to protect her. Acharya Prashant advises that to stay close to her, the father must become her friend. He acknowledges this is a difficult issue he himself struggles with, often facing more defeats than victories. To offer guidance or protection, one must be close to the person. If there is a great distance, both mentally and physically, one can neither provide security nor advice. The person in front has their own consciousness, age, and preferences, and they start making their own choices. In such situations, the most practical approach is to prioritize staying close over giving advice. The agenda of giving advice should be secondary to the importance of maintaining closeness. If you become distant, you cannot give any advice because you won't even know what is happening in their life. He humorously suggests becoming "one of the guys" and part of her "party scene." A daughter might not share things with a father figure but might with a friend. The role of a father is culturally laden with certain images, principles, and prohibitions, which naturally creates distance as a child grows. He advises the father to be available without imposing himself, so that whenever his daughter needs him, he is there. He emphasizes not to be an old-fashioned, authoritarian father, as that era is gone. Addressing another questioner with two daughters, he reiterates the advice to "reduce his age." The more one lets go of their rigid adulthood, the closer they can get to their children. He sees this as a good opportunity to delay one's own aging. This new generation, he explains, lives a more open life, is less hypocritical, less fearful, and carries less burden of the past and conditioning, largely due to their exposure to the West through the internet. There is much that India can learn from the West, an opportunity previous generations did not have. By staying with them, parents can also benefit. There should be a two-way exchange of learning and teaching. The father teaches, the human learns, and the friend stays together. Of these three roles, the friend is the most important because without friendship, the companionship is lost, a situation he notes is common in most households. He concludes that learning and teaching can come later; the most important thing is to maintain the relationship, as that is the greatest boon.