In plain words
When the women all go off to work at jobs, who are the housewives to see to the tasks of the home? When husband and wife both go off to offices, who are the women to do the housework? When they go to schools to teach other people's boys, who are the mothers to teach their own boys? When they take up books and go out like the men, who are the women to keep the kitchen in order? Though the troubles that money brings be eased, how much is lacking in the home! Go looking for happiness, and it is only a zero, ever, for the woman who holds a post at work.
So you must set yourselves to the work of shaping the children and making them people of ideals. Rather than shaping a hundred children of others, if we shape our own two, life becomes happy. To teach morals to children outside and fail to shape your own is laughable. Gurus must try to teach equal regard. As far as possible, they must teach good to their own children first. So that bad qualities do not settle in them, they must teach the virtues: Satya, Dharma, Śānti, Prema, Ahiṃsā, doing good to others, and the rest. In our Bal Vikas it is not enough merely to teach moral stories, the reading of the Bhagavad Gītā and hymns. Along with these, they must teach them what is the support of daily life: humility, reverent fear, obedience and trust toward elders, fear of sin, and love of God. They must teach them the finest lesson: to bow to the commands of their parents in their own homes. This much alone is not enough to rest content with. They must be taught matters of health. Through ill health, the parents not only spend money but have no peace of mind. They must teach them to rise at brahmamuhūrta, to clean their teeth, to eat clean food, not to wander in dirty places, and so on. Little children must be woken at brahmamuhūrta and taught to do their tasks. In former times, people taught their children well.
As soon as the cock crows ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’, rise smartly from your bed of sleep; clean your teeth, relieve the body's needs, bathe, put on your clothes, eat the morning's cold rice; whatever is wholesome, chew it through and through; eating in measure will do you good; go to school and learn your lessons with care, and win the name of a modest boy; never go roaming about in the damp; never go near the dirty pools; running, kabaḍḍī and games of ball, keep at them at the proper hours; if you heed the ways above, you will enjoy the blessings of health.
In those days parents taught such fine lessons as these. Today, if they stay in the bedroom till nine o'clock, what can they teach any more? Taking them to indecent, ugly shows, teaching them eating and drinking: we must see that habits like these have no place in our Bal Vikas. Besides this, children must be taught not to spend too much money. In the homes of the rich, because too much money is handed to the children, they eat what should not be eaten and see what should not be seen, and these are the root causes of bad conduct.