They tell me this word parenting or parent came into circulation.

Only somewhere around maybe 200 years ago, and just about at that time, one John Walmott,

the Earl of Rochester, said something significant. He said, before I got married,

I had six wonderful theories about how to parent, but now I have six children and all theories are gone.

Unfortunately, somewhere people have been made to believe that children are all born improper

and we have to make them proper.

Now, so what should I do parenting? I want you to look back and see,

when you were five, six years of age, what would be the best kind of parents to have?

If you look back, you would know very clearly.

If you're a parent, the important thing is, please don't stand on a big pedestal.

The only qualification you have is, you just came here a few years early, that's only mistake you've done.

Yes? When you say, I wish I was young, what it means is, I made the mistake of coming too early.

So this is the only qualification adults have, that they came here a few years earlier than the younger people.

This doesn't qualify you to advise about everything in the universe. It doesn't.

If you admit your ignorance with the youth and especially with little children,

they will become your close friends.

Otherwise, they look up to you because they have to, there is a hierarchy business.

And of course, everybody hates that hierarchy because looking up neck hurts, you know.

Nobody likes it.

Because in trying to place yourself above, you're losing the possibility of being a good friend.

If you're not a good friend, they're not seeking your advice.

They have, they're not just in the neighborhood. Now, globally, they seek answers.

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