23 February 2014 - QA 5

With such a demanding lifestyle, how can one be a better parent and give quality time to children.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

You should never doubt your goodness because you can never be a bad parent at all. So just be yourself and if you happen to scold your children sometime, you should know it is necessary. Parents feel so guilty when they scold their children. There is no need for you to feel that because you need to make your children strong. Scolding them is like a vaccination for them.
If you children can’t even take any insult from someone else, or a harsh comment from someone outside, then that shows that you have not attended to your children. You have not given them the much needed vaccination, that dose of the stick. Sometimes that is necessary.
So no parent will be bad parent if they are normal, and if they don’t have stress and tension in them. So first of all, you have to relieve yourself from your tension and stress and give quality time to children.