18 Wellbeing
Education UAE: What tips do you have for educators and parents to help their children blossom while creating safe boundaries and a framework for them to function in modern society? Sadhguru: The perils of living in this world – drugs, accidents, and various perversions –are always there. But whether you like it or not, today or tomorrow, your child has to learn to live with their own intelligence, making their own choices as to how much of what to do in their life. So, the sooner they get equipped for this, the better. This does not mean you push a young child on the
street to learn their own ways. But you do not try to counter-influence them with your own morality and values. You just help them to look at their life with more intelligence, rather than being influenced by this or that. If you create the necessary conducive atmosphere for their intelligence to grow fully, they will handle it the way they know. “Will everything go right?” It may go right, it may go wrong – that is not the point. But the chances of it going wrong are minimal. When the child grows up exercising their own intelligence, if they make one mistake, they
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