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...
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...
It's the beginning of the month of Kartik, a sweet time to spend with children doing special services for the Lord, like making and offering ghee lamps and singing the Damodarashtaka song. Children like this time of the year when we all sit together with...
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...
In our endeavors to give our children Krishna consciousness, we should pay attention to the child's needs according to its temperament, interests, and developmental stage. It's important to know that young children have sensitive senses, an undeveloped ability to think abstractly, and a great need...
If you are looking for a low-prep and highly engaging Krishna conscious activity for children, this is the one! I have done it as a part of our homeschooling lesson, and the children were asking to play it again the next day, which does not...
The foundation of spiritual knowledge is the truth that we are not these material bodies but spirit souls, parts, and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. How does a spiritual perspective affect our parenting? Above all, we should be able to realize that our...