6-week courseपौगण्डPaugaṇḍa · 6–10(Child learns directly)

My child gives up the moment something gets hard

$79.00

Enrolment opens soon.

A workshop is one live class, three hours online, a smaller first step than a whole term.

Lessons11
FormatLive on Zoom
LanguageEnglish
TimingsIndia Gulf UK US

What your child gets from it

  • Six weeks from now, your child meets a hard thing with "let me try once more" — practised through the Ramayana's own stories of steadiness, not lectured into them.

About this course

At six, giving up looks like a thrown pencil. At nine, it sounds like "I'm just bad at this." The habit underneath is the same one, and it is not fixed by cheering louder.

This six-week course works on dhairya — steadiness, the capacity to stay with a hard thing — using the stories that were built to carry it. Your child follows Hanuman, who did not know he could cross the ocean until someone reminded him; Bharata, who kept a promise for fourteen years with nobody watching; and the squirrel on the bridge at Rameshwaram, whose handful of sand mattered. One live class a week, a story to read at home, and one small practice a family can actually do on a school night.

No moralising, no memorising. A child leaves knowing the stories the way they know their friends — and with one sentence they reach for when something is hard.

What’s inside

6 weeks shown · 11 lessons. New weeks are added as the course runs.

week 1Week 1 — Hanuman forgets, and remembers1 lesson
week 2Week 2 — The promise nobody was watching2 lessons
  • Bharata and the sandals on the throneReading15 min
  • Class recording — the empty throneClass40 min
week 3Week 3 — The squirrel on the bridge2 lessons
  • A handful of sandReading12 min
  • Worksheet — my handful of sandWorksheet20 min
week 4Week 4 — Lakshmana's fourteen years awake2 lessons
  • The brother who guarded the doorReading15 min
  • Class recording — the three hundredth nightClass40 min
week 5Week 5 — When the mountain would not shrink2 lessons
  • The herb Hanuman could not findReading15 min
  • Worksheet — carry the mountainWorksheet20 min
week 6Week 6 — The steadiness sentence2 lessons
  • Six stories, one sentenceReading15 min
  • Class recording — the steadiness sentenceClass40 min

Please note

  • Classes are live at a set time. If you miss one, the recording is in your family account.
  • What is listed above is the plan: the lesson titles. The lessons themselves open in your family account after you enrol.
  • This is Sanatana Dharma broadly, not any one sampradaya, meaning any one lineage or school. Whatever your family follows at home, nothing here asks you to set it aside.

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Everything we teach comes from Braj.

Not a syllabus written in an office. We are in Vrindavan, and this is taught by people who live where it comes from. If you are weighing this course for your child, write to us. We would rather talk it through than have you guess.