One of the tasks that we are given and trying to do is to take care of a kid at home, taking

care of your children at home. But we are troubled with, whenever we need to make a decision

or not to make a decision, we are troubled with what to consider and what not to consider.

Can you give us some perspective about something that we should think while making a decision

or not making a decision for the kids?

Why are you making all the decisions for them?

So that's a trouble. I'm not sure. I'm not the right person to make a decision, but should

that be made or not? What do I do when I need to do something?

The first thing we need to understand is children only come through you. They don't come

from you. They are not your property to be conducted whichever way you feel fit. No, they

are not. If you treat them as your property or your future investment, if you treat them

as such, you are committing a certain sacrilege against creation and the creator for which

there will be a price. Simply it will come in the form of life or maybe it will come in

the form of your children, the price. Yes, it will be very unfortunate to see that. I'm

saying this, a very cruel thing to say to any parent, but I'm saying this because it's

a very cruel thing to parent a child. A child doesn't need that, but please see, in so many

ways, you're doing everything possible to see that he remains dependent on you in some way

or the other. You're not thinking of liberating him. So the moment you start working, you want

your children to be attached to you, isn't it? Well, you yourself open Bhagavad-gītā and

read and say, you should not be attached. I should not be attached. You tell your wife,

she don't be attached to me, but your children, you want them attached to you. So before you choose

to have children, you must think about these things, but if already it has happened, now at least

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