Teaching Kids Jainism - Good or bad?
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Teaching Kids - Good or bad?
Elaborate on how teaching jain tatva gyaan can be counterintuitive for kids, Repackaging sanskaar can be a better way of going about it. FOr example teaching wwater has apkaay and hence we should not waste it. Can lead to a kid talking about it in front of theor teachers or freidns, who will assume that the kid is talking about microbes and bacteria and then debates would start, Instead teaching them not to waste water because it is wasting resources can be a good simple way to give them sanskaar without tatva gyaan which can confuse the kid. For a kid growing up who does not know what to speak in front of whom, it is important that we give them knowledge which is acceptable by society.
If not done like this, then the kid will have problems settling in the friend circle, teacher would teach science which would be using different terms and a lil off concepts too, kid won't do well in the world that we live in. If they find jainism to be the culprit for any instance of debate or defeat, they will look at jainism as something not to associate with.
Hence until the kid comes to the age of maturity when they recognize and understand and build mental models to see things in different colors, and know where to speak what in front og whome, Repackaging the sanskaar in layers of ethics, morals, environmentalism, kindness, etc is better.