Constitution for Happier Homes - Part 2

Plan Document for Children’s upbringing:

Steps that can be taken by pregnant women to educate the child in the womb:
Moral Behaviour:
Married couples should transform themselves into ethically & morally upright individuals, imbibe higher values etc, before deciding to give birth to a child	Listen to spiritual, moral and educative discourse through TV, Radio, CD’s
Daily read a chapter of Thirukural or other similar moral text	Worship god daily according to the culture(If a believer)
Read moral stories and books in mother tongue, Amar Chitra Katha books etc	Visit place of worship/mediation twice daily (If a believer)
Education
Read history of India’s Freedom Struggle	Read good spiritual, women and current affairs magazine
Read books like ‘Kudumba Vilaku’, Premchand’s work or Shakespeare etc	Dream about the bright future for the child

Highest duty of the father is to educate his son/daughter to become the tallest among the scholars

– Thirukural (67)

For Children below 3 years:
Moral Behaviour:
Make them obedient to the advice of elders. Show respect towards God (If a believer) and Elders	Teach ‘Athichudi’ or small moral sayings/couplets
	Listen to Amar Chitra Katha and similar stories from elders
Education
Teach about family relationships, basic food habits, cleanliness, security measures	Teach some small songs

For Children below 5 years:
Moral Behaviour:
Parents should remove their shortcomings in ethical behaviour in order to become a role model for their children	Reading Short stories, Poems, Illustrated Books etc
Reading Thirukural or similar books	Training in personal hygiene
Visiting Temple/Church/Masjid and worshiping God	Habit of saying thanks
Speaking only Truth	Eating and Table manners
Habit of sharing things and food	Respect to National Symbols, Values and Leaders
Knowledge about current and past leaders of India	Helping in household chores. Children should be tutored to voluntarily share work
Practice simple exercises and yogic postures etc	Their decision making capacity can improved by asking them what to do for a particular issue/task.
Saving Habit
Saving money in piggy bank
Education
Check for learnability disorder, Autism and Dyslexia	Eye, hearing check-up
Teaching about objects at home, about the family’s history and tradition etc	Introduce all relatives and friends and explain the relationship
Sports
Teach the habit playing together with other children
Other Skills
Ability to dial and make phone calls	Make them memorise home address and phone number

For Children below 10 years:
Moral Behaviour:
By hearting full Thirukural or similar texts	Knowledge about religion and devotional songs
Learning about methods of worshiping God	Teach worshiping God through Bajans or devotional songs
Getting up early in the morning	Habit of watching TV and listening to Radio within the limits of time and appropriateness
Teach the habit of loving all things in nature	Teach them to respect all religion, caste, race, colour, sex etc
Take them to religious and tourist spots within the district	Allow them to watch only Good quality Children films
Tell them why certain religious and cultural habits are followed at home and explain the reason and the benefits of them	Knowledge about religious and cultural functions and events, its significance, method and benefits
Make them take part in cleaning and ordering things at home and make them obedient to all elders	Dressing should be simple and should evoke respect
They should be regularly taken to tour of Villages, Slums, hospitals, crematory functions to make them understand the realities of the world.	They should be made to derive happiness by sharing than possessing something
They should be taught about value of friendship and familial relations
Saving Habit
Open Children saving account in Post office
Education/Art
To improve handwriting consult good Graphologist	To refer spelling, meaning, details use Spelling dictionary, dictionary and Encyclopaedia
Teach Music, Dance, Painting etc	Learn letter writing skill (Snail Mail)
Create a Children library at home	Learn reading of Newspaper/Magazine
Teach them Kolam/Rangoli. It improves dexterity of hand and sharpens the mind	Learn about geography and History of India beyond the limits of the text books
Teach them Mother Tongue/ Tamil/ Hindi/ Sanskrit/ Arabic/ English etc	Read Gokulam(Tamil/English), Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle, Magic Pot, Tell me why, Wisdom, The Hindu – Young World, Champak, Bal Bharati (Hindi) etc
Take up membership in Local/District Library, Bal Bhavan, British Council/ Alliance Frances/ American Centre etc	Practice hobbies like Stamp collection
Select schools like Navodaya, Army School, Military School, Kendriya Vidyalaya etc. Adopt CBSE syllabus - NCERT Textbooks	Make a excursion to outstation tourist spots at least once a month
Participate in spelling bee contest	Take part in Quiz, Art and Culture, Sport, Literary competitions
Sports
Habit of playing sports like Football, Badminton, etc	Participate in District level Sports competitions
Take up mind games like Chess, Business, Scotland Yard etc	Should participate in Independence day and Republic Day parade/march past
Other Skills
Learn Cycling, Swimming (Both Compulsory) ,Wheel Skating etc	Should have concern for environment, reduce wastes, plant trees etc

See Part 3