According to Osho, shielding children from life’s so‑called “dirty” or negative aspects cripples them: they grow up spineless, dull, insipid, lacking sharp intelligence, because overprotection avoids challenges and becomes a prison. He urges exposing children to the whole of life—good and bad, day and night, flowers and thorns—so they become integrated, resilient, and alive.
If you hide the hard or messy parts of life from kids, they won’t grow strong or wise; let them meet everything so they become whole.