How to raise a child

What does authority mean? It means “I’m better than you”, “you must listen to me”, “you have to do as I say”. Where is love, respect, cooperation, creativity, where is acceptance in all this? They’re not here.

You must not impose authority, especially upon children, as they don’t get it. Parents want to come off as someone important, but if the child does not recognize this importance, then there is no energy of the Spirit in these parents.

When there is the energy of the Spirit, the child has no problem respecting such parents. So in order for the energy of the Spirit to be present in parents, that is, the will manifested, parents must have this will. This means they have to work on themselves, they must develop spiritual strength.

Quite often parents say that children should get experience of their own and allow them to live life the way they feel. The mistake lies in the fact that a father leaves his child unsupervised, so the child receives information, experience and knowledge not from his or her parents, but from the street. Hence children receive false independence, while being not ready for it. They acquire not very spiritual or very non-spiritual qualities. People in general stray further from the truth now.

A child should receive a spiritual, ethical and moral foundation, which has to be built up by the father and mother. Thus he can step into society and will be able to tell right from wrong and to understand what can be done and what should be avoided. If a child misses the spiritual core, then he will decay under the influence of society.