Lesson for today: If you don’t force bedtime on your one- and- a- half-year old daughter , she will spend the last half hour in her day trying to pack in as much as possible. She will run around the room screaming like a banshee, speak to the mirror, chew off the tail of a […]
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A Sock Or Two
She held the pair of tiny, cute blue socks in her hands as she looked down at her three -week old baby. He was so adorable and her heart brimmed with love as he gazed back at her. Suddenly, she burst into tears….again. It broke her heart to see her little baby’s right leg in a […]
Being The Change…
Like many expats I too went through the various phases of resettling back in India: ‘touristy’ excitement, disorientation, annoyance and frustration, gradual adaptation and finally bi-culturality that has now allowed me to find my own sense of belonging in what I still consider my hometown, Bangalore. This is not the Bengaluru I left in 1978. […]
Open House
Chaos reigned all around. It was difficult to believe that on a normal day, this place exudes quiet discipline. Children were shrieking and their parents were milling around, socializing, and discussing school politics maybe. The school was spread over four floors with an atrium in the centre. Today, the atrium was a buzz with activity. The school […]
This Thing Called Love
This is a sappy, mushy, gooey post. Quite unlike me, but hey, I haven’t been a mother for that long. Give me time and my inner gushing self will emerge from the closet. When Ankita was first placed in my arms, I felt nothing. I waited and waited for thunderstorms and lightening but nothing happened. […]
Perspective..
Can I climb that tree mumma… Can I climb a wall? May I jump from the highest point… From up here I feel tall.. What’s she doing? Get her down She’ll fall and break her leg Scare her with a frown I love the ants, mumma … I like the earthworms too I want to […]
Parent Hub: Managing a Stutter
It was like a dream to make normal conversations with my two-year-old. Perfect diction. An amazing vocabulary. Beautiful sense of sentence formation. But little did I know that this dream would turn into one of my worst nightmares. That my son who speaks beautifully, pronounces with care, articulates his words and sentences smoothly, would one […]
The Gift Of A Daughter..
She could hear the soft, feeble, whimpering cries somewhere next to her. Her mind which was in an anaesthetic haze slowly began to focus back on the source of the sound but the excruciating pain made the task difficult. She wanted to relapse back into the blissful oblivion of unconsciousness just for some more time […]
Never Let Go
There was a quote in my father’ medical book that I don’t quite remember anymore. I remember faintly that under the pretty, pretty picture I painted for him on the front page of the book, there had been words that spoke about caring for children. That in the reflection of my father’s glasses as he […]
Parent Hub: So Much Sky!
Are you one of those parents who look out of the window on a fine morning and say, “The weather’s simply awesome today. Let’s drive someplace…” And the next thing you know you are in fifth gear on a highway, enjoying the broad roads, the clear blue sky, the soft cottony clouds, when your two […]
Loving And Living
For a long time now, there’s been a clear divide between stay-at- home mothers and working mothers. The pros and cons of both situations have been discussed and debated with inconclusive results. In the end, it is more about the choices a woman has or is forced to make. I wanted to be a mother […]
Parent Hub: A fistful of Poesy
“The terrace where I sit is screened From the springtime dawn sunshine. What a boon to have leisure – No pressing tasks crowding in upon me yet; No hordes of people pestering me, Trampling over my time. I sit and write: The sweetness of a free morning collects in my pen-nib Like the juice that […]