Originally posted by: leavesandwaves
Yes, it is no excuse. Blaming on circumstances, blaming parents. Crime has to be punished.
It is another matter that parents have control over kids and they can shape them up. The stronger parent can do that. If the father is bad, the mother can protect the kid from interacting with father too much. Especially a strong woman like Sakshi. Sakshi knew Rajnath was a murderer and kameena, yet she married him and had children by him. She could have protected her son from him.
Dayal cant bully or be too harsh as he is not Durga's biological father.
Dayal does not have to bully. His one sentence is enough and he onows how to drive home a point. Plus Nitya is already a well brought up girl.
Stronger parent cannot always handle it. Especially a woman. After a stage boys stop relating that much with mother. They think maybe she is just a woman, just being nagging or over protective. An older boy needs to be disciplined by another senior male, a father figure. Shaurya did not get it.
Why will he take mom seriously if dad later comes to him and laughs over same things mom scolded him for? Rather gives him tips on how to smoothly manage affairs?
Sakshi cannot stop child from interacting with father.
Some way is always found. There was an old Mala Sinha-Raaj Kumar film in which mother wants to keep son away from his criminal father's influences. But father somehow meets his son and turns him against mother too.
Same in film Parvarish where Vinod Khanna's character listens to that dacoit instead of following his real parents. Every attempt to discipline him seems like an attack to him on his freedom.
I believe things cannot always be fully controlled. Secondly, if parents have no coordination and contradict each other then child takes neither of them seriously. Rajnath's laugh ruined effect of Sakshi's scolding.
Finally scolding is of no use if parents ultimately clean up for child. Then child thinks parent's reaction is usual drama and ultimately they will handle everything. This is why neither scolding, nor tears and not even death wish of parents moved Shaurya. He did not bother when Sakshi asked him to kill her ans relieve her of this clean up she always had to do for him. He did not bother when Rajnath commented what a bad heir he had.
He just knew they will cry or shout but cover up and as usual he will be laughing unharmed. This knowledge makes him continue being crappy.
Raj and Sakshi should never have covered up for Shaurya. Let him face consequences. Their personal differences and constant cover up spoils it.
Plus they are not clean themselves so kid does not take them seriously. He knows dad had affair and kept taking favours from him to hide that affair. Now he learnt mom did a murder attemot herself so why will he care what she says to him? Raj used to take him along while bullying and bribing witnesses in Payal case. What else would he have learnt then except corruption?
Every aspect of parenting is wrong in Goenkas' case.
Even the usually good Suchitra spoiled Shaurya a lot, passed off his blunders as bachpana or nadaani. Till last month she was laughing off his behaviour as childish antics.
Shaurya has been over pampered, over protected. There is no disciplining factor in his life. Even friends are bad and he does not leave them despite parents forever telling him to avoid their company.