Schooling Krsna's Children
Do You Force Your Children
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 effect. I talk with a blue-saried nun from Puna who wishes us the best in our spiritual journey.
Crack in the Universe
How can we raise children so that when they grow up they'll stay out of the modern culture of divorce, remarriage, and illegitimacy?
THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY founder of Sunday school in America, H. Clay Trumbull, remembers calling to his father before falling asleep at night.
"Are you there, Papa?"
"Yes, my child, I am here."
"You'll take care of me tonight, Papa, won't you?"
