Homemakers In Training

“Many girls enter marriage and motherhood without a clue as to what’s required, and they quickly fall into despair. We must tell our daughters of the sacrifices that homemaking demands—but also of the unsurpassed rewards it offers… 'Think of your daughter as your homemaking intern.'"
 
Many women who grew up during the 1960's hippie era, were caught between a generation  that did not pass on to them the things they really needed to know, thus making it very difficult for them to pass on those things to their own children. In fact, many women must spend a good deal of time just trying to figure things out while their children were growing up at a rapid pace. It's difficult to lead when still in training.

But it doesn't have to be that way with your daughters, nor your grandchildren and daughters-in-law. Here is a list of links from this blog that may help to prepare them for married life:

SUGGESTED GOALS:
By the time they are grown, daughters should be able to:

• show appreciation for a life of devotion within her domestic prescribed duties for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna.
• demonstrate practical skills needed for this aim
• demonstrate a servant attitude

SUGGESTED DISCUSSIONS AND ACTIVITIES MAY INCLUDE:
(the links give general ideas or ideas to start with)

1. LOVING THE LORD;
This involves development of the heart via:
Nine Ways
Sravanam
Kirtanam
Vishnoh Smaranam
Pada Sevanam
Arcanam
Vandanam
Dasyam
Sakhyam
Atma Nivedanam

2. MAKING YOURSELF INVALUABLE
This involves making a house a home, the foundations of a sane society:

Cooking Lessons
Godly Housekeeping
 
Arts and Crafts (Also 64 arts)
Simple Living Skills

3. RELATIONSHIP IS LIFE
This is what makes us persons, and its possible to make our relationships smoothe and happy. As girls mature the following topics of domestic devotion may be covered, as appropriate:
Know Your Duty
Happy Marriage Secrets
Dharma Patni Challenges
Mother Nurture (best learned assisting mother and or extended family and with younger siblings)
The Lives of Extraordinary Women

4. HEALTH IS WEALTH
Without it, all the above becomes difficult:
Health and Beauty Tips

Home Nursing
Spiritual Health

"Women should be very expert in cooking. That is their natural tendency. They should be educated how to cook nicely, how to please the husband, how to take care of children. This is Vedic civilization.' (Srila Prabhupada, Room conv. Baltimore July 7, 1976)