Your Kids And the One-Eyed Guru by Urmila Devi dasi

Jul 1, 1993 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-27 Number-04

When our oldest son, Madhava, now eighteen, was small, he had few toys some blocks, some clay. We never had a television or a video player, so he played with his toys in imitation of what he saw worship of Krsna, chanting of His names, initiation ceremonies, bathing... read more

Nursery Nectar by Urmila Devi Dasi

May 1, 1993 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-27 Number-03

TWO YEARS OLD, Lalita Madhava sits with all her concentration focused on the book our 14-year-old daughter is showing her. Lalita Madhava's older sister has just graduated from our gurukula school, her mother is at our house to print a letter, and Lalita... read more

Higher Vocations by Urmila Devi Dasi

Mar 1, 1993 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-27 Number-02

Srila Prabhupada Wanted Iskcon's educational system to produce high-class people, high not in wealth or status but in character. We often describe the ideal character of a brahmana (intellectual) as tolerant and austere, of a ksatriya (civic... read more

Do You Force Your Children? by Urmila Devi Dasi

Nov 1, 1992 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-26 Number-06

WE SIT IN THE Calcutta Airport waiting for an announcement, the flight three hours late. The many ceiling fans do little to refresh the air, polluted by cigarette smoke and hundreds of bodies. My ten-year-old son and I sit by a door, opened a crack but with negligible... read more

Teens and Celibacy by Urmila Devi Dasi

Sep 1, 1992 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-26 Number-05

CELIBACY IS SUCH an important part of Vedic education that the Sanskrit word for student is brahmacari ("celibate"). The pressure to give up celibacy begins, of course, in adolescence, the most dangerous age and often the turning point of one's... read more