Pujya Gurudev encouraged people to start Balavihars and gave them clear guidelines about how to handle the children.
How much importance Gurudev gave to create the right atmosphere for children to learn is made clear by his suggestion for boards near a nursery school. He knew that children get distracted easily and wanted people to be aware of it too.
We must put a board in the parking yard there:
Careful. Silent.
Children learning to live!!
What do you think of it? In Ashas place and in our other schools we can have:
DRIVE SLOWLY
Children learning to LIVE.
In a letter to Pramila Modi in 1972 he shows how to balance love with discipline.
Children recognise and appreciate much more readily the love and sincerity in others. Pour out your love and sincerity to them: yet be strict for their own discipline. They will be a little wild in the beginning: soon they will be quiet and nice. The juniors: allow them more freedom than for teenagers.
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
Be a common mother to them all. Love them sincerely.
Good that you started a Balavihar at your place. Keep them constantly in competition with each other in study, in story-telling, in singing, dancing, in scoring at school, in doing noble, heroic and good acts of kindness to men and animals.
In short, be a common mother to them all. Love them sincerely, intensively. They are as many Krishnas – each with His Gopas and Gopies all around Him!
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
Even the minute details are carefully presented.
Don’t take the children’s class more than one hour. 1¾ is too much. They should never feel tired. Let them play under your own eyes … watch them and read their strengths and weaknesses. Guide them slowly …
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
The goal of educating the children is beautifully explained in this short snippet.
Love the children. They alone are our only hope for the future. Let us try to leave in them some higher and nobler values. This done – we have then educated them for the highest achievements.
Love
Swami Chinmayananda
Pujya Gurudev encouraged people to start Balavihars and gave them clear guidelines about how to handle the children.
How much importance Gurudev gave to create the right atmosphere for children to learn is made clear by his suggestion for boards near a nursery school. He knew that children get distracted easily and wanted people to be aware of it too.
We must put a board in the parking yard there:
Careful. Silent.
Children learning to live!!
What do you think of it? In Ashas place and in our other schools we can have:
DRIVE SLOWLY
Children learning to LIVE.
In a letter to Pramila Modi in 1972 he writes about how to balance love and discipline.
Children recognise and appreciate much more readily the love and sincerity in others. Pour out your love and sincerity to them: yet be strict for their own discipline. They will be a little wild in the beginning: soon they will be quiet and nice. The juniors: allow them more freedom than for teenagers.
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
Be a common mother to them all. Love them sincerely.
Good that you started a Balavihar at your place. Keep them constantly in competition with each other in study, in story-telling, in singing, dancing, in scoring at school, in doing noble, heroic and good acts of kindness to men and animals.
In short, be a common mother to them all. Love them sincerely, intensively. They are as many Krishnas – each with His Gopas and Gopies all around Him!
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
Even the minute details are carefully presented.
Don’t take the children’s class more than one hour. 1¾ is too much. They should never feel tired. Let them play under your own eyes … watch them and read their strengths and weaknesses. Guide them slowly …
Signed
Swami Chinmayananda
The goal of educating the children is beautifully explained in this short snippet.
Love the children. They alone are our only hope for the future. Let us try to leave in them some higher and nobler values. This done – we have then educated them for the highest achievements.
Love
Swami Chinmayananda
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