#1409 - Should Parents Punish Their Children?

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Sadhguru explains why we need to stop thinking that children need to be fixed, and instead create an atmosphere of inspiration which will allow them to blossom to their full potential. Set the context for a joyful, exuberant day with a short, powerful message from Sadhguru. Explore a range of subjects with Sadhguru, discover how every aspect of life can be a stepping stone, and learn to make the most of the potential that a human being embodies. Conscious Planet: ⁠https://www.consciousplanet.org⁠ Sadhguru App (Download): ⁠https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app⁠ Official Sadhguru Website: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org⁠ Sadhguru Exclusive: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive⁠ Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast,
0:09.0	Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes.
0:12.0	Sadguru, how to change my child's behaviour without punishment?
0:20.0	First thing that you need to understand about a child is,
0:23.6	then there's nothing wrong with him.
0:28.6	Maybe you are a little twisted out.
0:32.6	There's really nothing wrong with him.
0:38.3	That's how life is.
0:40.3	You twisted yourself to fit into your society.
0:43.3	He is not twisted himself. He's just the way a life should be.
0:47.3	You don't like it.
0:52.3	I want you to understand. If you don't like the. I want you to understand.
0:55.0	If you don't like the miniature version of yourself,
0:59.0	how should the world be bearing with a larger copy?
1:03.0	It is just that you're trying to educate them,
1:09.0	not because they need to be corrected.
1:11.7	Education is not a correctional center.
1:15.9	Education is simply nonsense that's necessary to live in this world.
1:21.4	Okay.
1:26.4	Yes?
1:27.4	If you just live him in the forest, anyway he would learn how to live, but we've not left
1:33.0	enough forests.
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