Acharya Prashant uses an analogy to explain the effect of parental conflict on a child. He asks the listener to imagine being in an enclosed railway cabin with two fellow passengers who are constantly squabbling during a ten-hour journey. This situation would be irritating and frustrating. Depending on one's patience, one might try to sleep, attempt to calm them down, pull the emergency chain, or even get off the train before the destination. He then parallels this, stating that if even ten hours with two quarreling strangers is intolerable, one should consider how it feels for a child to live with two quarreling fools for an entire lifetime. He advises to forget that they are parents and just see them as two people. The speaker explains that it is a very bad thing to happen to anybody, and worse if it happens to the impressionable mind of a child. When people are fighting, they become very self-centered and extremely selfish. The ego is aroused to unimaginable levels, and in that moment of aggressive excitement, one is totally the little self, the petty ego. In this state, the welfare and concerns of others, including the child, cease to matter. When the man and woman are fighting, it becomes immaterial to both what is happening to the child, as each is focused on winning their petty battle. What is happening to the kid becomes insignificant. Acharya Prashant identifies two main issues for the child in this situation: the company they are in and the process of identification. The first issue is being in bad company. The second, and more critical, is that the child is deeply identified with these two quarreling people, their mother and father. Identification means 'I am that'. In the heated moment of the quarrel, the mother is pure aggression and the father is pure hatred. The child, identifying with them, says "that am I," and thus becomes aggression and hatred. The parents may not even realize this, thinking they are only fighting each other, but in doing so, they have destroyed the kid. The solution is not separation or divorce, as that does not transform the ego. The solution lies in a basic inner transformation, which becomes easier if the parents have some love for the child, as it is sometimes easier to change for others than for oneself.