There is need to give freedom to a child. This comes from the principle: person is not able to gain knowledge only learning theory. The Vedas say that knowledge can be realized by listening to a person having practical experience and then it is fixed in practice. Person always gets knowledge by practice. Because of that if child makes mistakes, not big mistakes one should become happy not sad. For example child slightly burned one of his small finger which is very good then parents can explain to him that it was a mistake and explain some more serious things also. But if before that parents shouted at him not to go to the fire he might think that father became angry at me and because of that I accidentally touched fire, father is bad. And if parents forbade him not to do something then he will come to the conclusion that he has to do it when there is no one at home. He does not make decisions – that this should not be done. Usually child does not think of his action but of that violence which parents did to him. But if child did something bad and he felt it then parents should explain it to him why it so happened.

The second method is for small kids it is better to model the situation. To give knowledge to a child in the next form: for example, father jokingly touches fire and burns his finger and then explains the situation with words why it happened so.

And when father comes out of a shock he tells seriously: “you see my son, it is very dangerous to play with fire”. And son agrees and says: “yes, I understood everything.” In this way game is a life for a child and one can give them practical knowledge through the association with this world in which the child is in.

Translated from Russian book written by Devotee physiologists.