In June this year, we have finished the sixth homeschooling year. A significant part of our learning was centered around a story from Srimad Bhagavatam about creating the material universe. I used this subject as the starting point to teach my kids about geography, cosmology,...
When we celebrate Janmashtami with little kids, we can go into playing with puppets, dressing like Krishna, Balarama, and cowherd boys, making a play scene with puppets, or a kid's altar, and reading a story. There are unlimited ways for little kids to engage them...
This June, we completed the 5th year of our homeschooling. It's the year the children got the capacity to do more academic learning, and we did less playing with puppets and the whole-body movement games. It's a transition year from early to middle childhood, and...
Worship of Lord Jagannath is one of the most mysterious and delightful features of the Indian religious culture, without a doubt. It's an important part of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition for us, the followers of Lord Caitanya, containing the essence of His teachings about prema-bhakti...
When children are young, I do not prefer to analyze spiritual stories and philosophy with them. Young children learn the best through hands-on activities, storytelling, and play. Their intellect is not yet developed to analyze complex subjects. As my children transition from lower grades to...
Our vision of education When people hear that we homeschool our children, at first they are stuck with wonder. How is it possible that children can learn anything without school? Well, there is a significant percentage of families in the world who have homeschooled their children...