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By the www.BhaktiWomen.org<\/a> Team<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Among the various areas that The team has created many <\/span><\/p>\n Feminine Click here for resources: <\/span>http:\/\/www.bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= Within this module we covered <\/span><\/p>\n Home Care and Click here for resources: <\/span>http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= We covered the topics of Within Home Decor<\/b> we <\/span><\/p>\n Prasadam Science<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Click here for resources: <\/span>http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= Within this module we covered <\/span><\/p>\n Guest Reception Click here for resources: <\/span>http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= This being an important <\/span><\/p>\n Mother Daughter Activities<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Since our vision is to support Links to resources:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= http:\/\/bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= <\/span><\/p>\n Links to pictures:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Click here for pictures from the Home Organization activity<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for pictures from the Home Decor activity<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for pictures from https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ http:\/\/www.bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Click here for https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ <\/span><\/p>\n Videos:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.bhaktiwomen.org\/?q= https:\/\/youtu.be\/GMnB5agbYPw<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/cjX2GCwbrW0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among the various areas that the Bhakti Women team serves women in, we are also very inspired to support mothers in empowering their daughters and to honor and value their role as women. We wish for them to excel and shine in their roles as home- makers , caretakers of the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of their families, in raising emotionally and spiritually sound children and in maintaining relationships within society. With this purpose in mind we offered a ten session Girls Home Science Camp in Seattle during June-July 2015. The camp was well appreciated by all girls and parents from the devotee and secular community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19148\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe Bhakti Women<\/a> team serves women in, we are also very inspired to support
\nmothers in empowering their daughters and to honor and value their role as
\nwomen. We wish for them to excel and shine in their roles as home- makers
\n, caretakers of the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of their
\nfamilies, in raising emotionally and spiritually sound children and in
\nmaintaining relationships within society. With this purpose in mind we offered
\na ten session Girls Home Science Camp in Seattle during June-July 2015. The
\ncamp was well appreciated by all girls and parents from the devotee and secular
\ncommunity. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nteaching aids, resources and activity sheets for this camp and we are very
\nhappy to share this with everyone. We hope that new and experienced home
\nmakers alike find this material useful. We also hope that mothers find this to
\nbe a useful tool in training their daughters. We also foresee other
\ncongregations utilizing this material for camps as they find
\nappropriate. We would also be very happy to receive feedback for mistakes
\nand improvements in our materials. Find below a list of topics covered
\nalong with links to materials and pictures. We hope you find these
\nuseful. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nQualities and the Home<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe importance of how feminine qualities are extremely powerful and how they
\nimpact the well being and happiness of all family members We discussed
\nhow a woman’s performance of her duties with due support from her family members
\ngives a strong foundation for the performance of grhastha ashrama dharma. We
\ndid two activities to deliver this message. One was a discussion of feminine
\nqualities of women personalities from scripture, along with a group discussion
\nanalysis on how things would have been different if Sita would not have
\nfollowed Rama, if Ahalya was not tolerant and Draupadi was not forgiving
\ntowards Ashwatthama and Sukanya got irritable while dealing with Cyavana Muni.
\nThe girls presented skits and their group wise analysis on each of these
\ntopics. We also did a Duty Web Activity to show how the non performance of even
\none of her duties can lead to a collapse of the entire social fabric and family
\nfabric.For Resources: Click
\nHere<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nDecor<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nCleanliness, Organization and Home Decor. We based this module on the
\ninstructions of Narada Muni for women from the verses SB 7.11.26-27 ,
\n“…….she should sweep and clean the household with water and other
\nliquids so that the entire house is always pure and clean. She should collect
\nthe household paraphernalia and keep the house always aromatic with incense and
\nflowers…..” . Within the topic of “Cleanliness<\/b>”
\nwe helped them identify the different varieties of surfaces that need to be
\ncleaned in the house and how each one of them require a specific cleaning
\nmechanism. We also introduced them to the concept of natural bio- degradable
\ncleaners and helped them make one such cleaner during activity
\ntime. Within “Organization<\/b>” (collect the household
\nparaphernalia) we helped them understand the importance of organization based
\non Srila Prabhupada’s teachings. We had group activity planned related to
\norganizing certain areas of the home- kitchen spice rack, kitchen vessels,
\nclothes closet, study desk and jewelry.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\ndiscussed how Krishna Conscious homes must be a sactuary for the spiritual,
\nemotional and physical rejuvenation of the family members. We discussed how
\nhousekeeping and decor play a major role in the well being of the family. We
\ndiscussed how the purpose of beauty – is for Krishna , to remind us of Krishna.
\nSince Home Decor is an extremely broad topic we covered the aspect of patterns
\nin design and how all traditional cultures use patterns from nature and why
\nthey do so? We connected that with how all those patterns in nature have been
\ncreated by Krishna and to surround yourself with such patterns in the home –
\neither on flooring, upholstery, carving and prints the purpose is to always
\nremember Krishna through those. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nto major two topics. The first being “ Food, Mood, Karma and You<\/b>”
\non how the type of food we eat and the consciousness of the cook affects our
\nconsciousness, karma and mood and ability to grow in life. We discussed the
\nimportance of choosing the right types of foods and being extremely careful of
\neating only prasadam cooked by devotees. We also discussed about the effect of
\neating local foods easy to obtain and the effect of natural farming using cow
\ndung vs. fertilizers. For that we had a field trip to HG Harivilas Prabhu’s
\nfarm where we showed them organic farming using cow dung and also the care of
\ncows.We also touched upon the topic of food storage and different methods of
\npreservation with one being pickling where the girls learned how to make a lime
\npickle( Link to pictures for this activity:. The second topic we covered was
\nrelated to “Prasadam Serving”. <\/b>We gave them some pointers
\non what constitutes a good menu vs. a bad menu. We also discussed serving
\nsequences and serving layout (arranging a table – Indian style and Western
\nStyle). <\/span><\/p>\n
\nat Home<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nfunction of the grhastha asrama we tried to introduce the concept to the girls
\nthrough this module. We covered how one needs to be mindful of the spiritual,
\nemotional and physical needs of the guests and how one can take care of them.
\nWe have also designed mother daughter activities that they could do at home
\naround arranging a sleeping area for the guests and also learning how to serve
\nprasadam to them – in terms of menu planning, serving layout and serving
\nsequence. We also had a group activity around different guest arrival scenarios
\nand how best the group could tackle those scenarios based on what they had
\nlearned. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nmothers in raising their daughters. We planned various Mother- Daughter At Home
\nActivities for every week of the camp to enable the mothers to train their
\ndaughters at home and make the best use of the summer. The idea behind this was
\nthat nothing can replace what a daughter can learn from her mother and our
\neffort is to help mothers in imparting this science to their daughters.
\nHandouts for those have been linked above with the various course modules.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\npictures on Lime Pickle activity<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nCake Decoration activity and videos:<\/span><\/p>\n
\npictures from Marigold planting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\npictures from Cow Care<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\npictures from Planting Box Preparation Activity<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\nBhakti Women Links
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