India, May 13 -- Actor R Madhavan has often spoken about raising his son Vedaant Madhavan with strong values despite growing up in a privileged environment. Vedaant, who is an international swimmer representing India at multiple championships, is Madhavan's son with wife Sarita Birje, whom he married in 1999.

In a recent conversation on the 100 Year Life Project by ACKO with Radhika Gupta, Madhavan opened up about modern parenting, social pressure and the parenting rule that shaped the way he raised his son.

Madhavan said one of the biggest lessons he wanted Vedaant to understand was gratitude and awareness of privilege. "The thing I made sure that Vedaant did was to acknowledge, maybe not as much as my friends, but most certainly ackno...