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Srila Prabhupada shares his childhood, No 2.
“In my childhood I was a very naughty boy, and I used to catch my father in so many ways demanding unreasonable things, and my father used to satisfy me.” (SPL to Brahmananda, 27th February, 1969)
Prabhupada: I like this life, from my very childhood. And on our roof there were trees, plants, flower plants, and... My grandmother, she... We, all grandchildren used to water it. So downstairs we took water in, what is called?
A jhari?
Bhagavan: Sprinkling can?
Prabhupada: Ah, sprinkling can. We all grandchildren, we were about half a dozen. So we took very much pleasure in watering. But my special tendency was that along with the plants, I, with the bushes, I'll sit down. My tendency. And I'll sit down for hours. And like that. In my childhood. In my maternal uncle's house also, I was doing that. As soon as I find some bush, I make a sitting place.
( Room Conversation -- August 2, 1976, New Mayapur French farm)