Many of our SikhNet visitors have discussed with us and asked us, how can we give our values our virtues and our valor to our children? Why must we raise our children on Mickey Mouse and television cartoons? Soul Spirit and Reality - that’s what our children really want from us as parents. As Sikhs of the Guru we have such beautiful stories of wisdom, valor, love, devotion and sacrifice which is a natural part of our heritage.
Here at SikhNet, we asked for storytellers. Storytellers raised their hands and came to our microphones to tell wonderful spiritual stories / sakhis for our children. So, today we offer a new section on SikhNet called "Sikh Stories for Children." Just click and listen. Bed time stories or any-time stories. We’ll be adding new stories regularly every week.
www.sikhnet.com/stories
So please spread the word to all your friends and family who have children.
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The past few weeks have been non-stop and exhausting, however this weekend was what I needed. I just relaxed and kept the force fields up around the computer to prevent the black hole from sucking me back into work on my precious weekend. Since it is Sunday and the day is just about over I was able to compromise and get on the computer to post this message.
Being a parent of two children is definitely a challenge. It’s like another full time job that goes on and on. HOWEVER, there are those times when you take the time to enjoy your children and it is all worth it! It’s those times also when you are home alone with it deadly quiet and the kids are out of town. The house feels empty when the screaming, laughing, crying is not present anymore. It’s then that you realize how much you miss these dear angels.
Continue reading ‘Beautiful Happy Children’
While we are on the topic of Sikhi and Youth…there is always the issue of how as a parent we can teach and give our children an experience of Sikhi. How to give something that is more than history and facts, but something much deeper that they can experience for them self? I for one am traveling this path as a parent and figuring this out as I go. My six year old son Narayan Singh is quite a kid. We sometimes joke and call him "Narayan Lion Singh" because he is very much like a lion in his personality. He wants to be the leader of the pack and doesn’t like to be told what to do. He is fast and strong. He always wants to do things on his own terms. He is full of energy and can be very aggressive at times. He also can sometimes react strongly to things and get emotional easily when something doesn’t go his way.
Continue reading ‘Being a Teacher for your Children’
Today was my day to help with the kids camp and I had a lot of fun doing all kinds of things with them. In the evening as we all were sitting around enjoying a nice hot cup of golden milk and listening to some jamming tunes at the "Yogi Tea Cafe", Narayan and I sat next to this very nice lady who was painting people’s faces. Narayan asked her to paint a Dragon on his face which she did beautifully….and then all the other kids wanted to get painted too. Here are some pictures from tonight with Narayan, Gurudev Singh and Prabhjot Singh.
In our tent getting ready to go to sleep. Narayan didn’t want to wash off the dragon.
Well, Narayan is older now (6 yrs) and won’t let me get picture of him that often, so all the pictures these days seem to only be of Charanjeet Kaur.
Charanjeet is 15 months old and is running all over the place. She is a pretty smart kid and remembers lots of things. A few of her latest words that she says often are: Ek Ong Kaar, Kanga (the comb), Wazo ("bird" in french), Naris ("nose" in spanish). Whenever she sees a picture of one of the Guru’s she says "ekongar". She loves pictures so much. Also, whenever she sees a picture of a baby (or her brother), she get’s soo excited (bubbling with joy)!
One funny thing is that, no matter how much I try to have her call me "Papa" she always calls me "Mamma" (mother). So I guess I am momma #2. She knows me as papa….but she won’t call me by that name. I’ve started to get used to being Mamma. So, if you are with me and hear hear shouting for Momma then know it might be for me.
Morning Breakfast Smiles
Continue reading ‘Charanjeet Kaur - 15 months’
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