Development and Upbringing: Keys to Harmony in the Family and Within Yourself // Alexander Volchek

Main subjects

Children, parenting, and family lifeKarma, free will, and causalityLove, help, and rescuing othersCHChildrenAVAlexander VolchekKarma

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Raising children: parental influence and key qualities
• 05:21Karma and heredity in parenting: the role of parents' actions
• 10:10Responsibility and sincerity in parenting: shaping a child's personality
• 12:47Parental honesty and influence: building the foundations of child development
• 14:22The role of the environment in learning and upbringing: its influence on children
• 17:31Self-respect and self-love: the foundation of a child's confidence
• 20:12Developing parents' consciousness: a key to successful parenting

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• 00:07

  I don't actually know it's great, because I've never done it.

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• 09:49

  As a parent, when you understand that wanting to instill particular qualities means, first and foremost, wanting to change and influence your child, you need to tell yourself, “I really am capable of honestly and truthfully seeing what this person needs.” Otherwise, you're acting out your own ambitions, ego, or inability to see and perceive.

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• 10:52

  I don't actually know it's great, because I've never done it or been involved in it.

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• 12:00

  The best action I can instill in my child—which means the best action I can take—is to continually remember that my key, fundamental task is to do my utmost to see who this child is meant to become and try to guide them toward that—

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• 12:58

  Your husband or wife isn't responsible for raising your children or ensuring the child takes in what's best, most honest, and purest. You yourself are responsible. I'm the only one responsible for conveying something to my children as honestly, truthfully, and sincerely as possible. My wife bears responsibility on her side.

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• 14:44

  It's funny: people say, “Of course you should send a child to preschool as early as possible.

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• 14:51

  Someone very close to me, a Brahmin from India, says, “It's amazing how people think.

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• 15:05

  “Who told you all children are good?” Children become adults, and at that point we clearly distinguish good people from bad.

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• 16:37

  The best quality you can instill in a child, an incredibly powerful and important quality, is the understanding: I love myself as a person; I have a responsibility to myself in this life; I deserve to move forward in this life; I, as a person…

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• 20:47

  It's a difficult, incredibly important topic because it allows a person to expand their consciousness and thinking.

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