Tatyana talks about the importance of instilling traditional values in children: Although as a historical social institution, the family changes over time, it is important to combine healthy conservatism and innovations. When she was setting up the Institute for Noble Maidens, tsarina Catherine II said that, ‘All bad things come from bad education’ and pointed to the importance of correctly educating parents themselves. Historically, the first type of family was based on patriarchal values when the husband was the sole breadwinner and the wife stayed at home. She depended on her husband. With technical progress, women gradually began to do ‘masculine’ jobs. With excessive freedom that we enjoy today, we have lost many important cultural values. We need to teach our girls about traditional values. Today many families have only one child that grows into an unmanageable individual, which is wrong. In Europe when they reach 17, children gain independence. We should not apply this European mentality to ours. Every nation has its own rules, and we, the Kalmyks, have a clan-oriented mentality. Parents should always communicate with and reach a compromise with their children, and never tell them lies. These are simple universal rules. I always tell my students, who are 18-20, that their parents expect attention from them. I tell them to call their parents, to give them small presents to make them happy. The modern world is selfish. The modern consumer society does not teach these things.