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

Kick Out Darwin by Urmila Devi Dasi

Jan 1, 1992 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-26 Number-01

The Doctrine Of Evolution is difficult to hide from. It is so pervasive in textbooks of science, geography, history, and literature that the reader, numbed by repetition, hardly notices the constant drone. Our children need help to remain awake to spiritual life... read more

The Company We Keep by Urmila Devi Dasi

May 1, 1991 | Schooling Krsna's Children, Urmila Devi Dasi, Volume-25 Number-03

CAN WE MAKE OUR CHILDREN turn out the way we want? Srila Prabhupada once said, "If you place a child in good association, he will act properly, and if you place him in bad association, he will act improperly. A child has no independence in that sense….... read more