Tag: parenting

  • The Trophy Mukund’s Boys Picked.

    The Trophy Mukund’s Boys Picked.

    We sacrifice our children’s sunlight and souls for colony bragging rights, then blame their collapse on gaming. Disappointing your parents is survivable; dying for them isn’t.

  • Mama Told Me Not To

    Mama Told Me Not To

    Indian families mastered raising successful children, but sometimes forgot one detail: adulthood requires freedom, not lifelong emotional permission slips disguised as love and duty.

  • Mothers On The Mom

    Mothers On The Mom

    It’s Friday so breakfast is with mom, over telephone of course. My mom is commenting on the new advertisement of some refrigerator, the tag line is,”maa hoon” this has made her angry. Amma’s stand is very clear, she says the advertisements work on  subconscious, kitchen mom is incharge, so much so women have become territorial…

  • Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Its mother’s day. What can I gift my mother for mother’s day. We have been fed with amazing stories of mothers, Kunti, Jijabhai’s and Kaikeyi’s. From our tradition. Coming to independent India we have the all we have that lady I forget her name, the abused sacrificing doormat mother. I think her name was Sulochana…

  • Travel and Kids!!

    Originally posted on Parwatisingari's Weblog: with my daughter at Husainsagar Traveller Kid, Before I even tackle the questions posted in the happy hour, what  would be a vacation. To me, a period of suspension of work, study or other activities. It is usually used for a rest, recreation, or travel and of course a holiday.…

  • Ethical Will-passing on values

    Long ago I had written a blog on Ethical will, an ethical will. An Ethical will (Hebrew: “Zava’ah”) is a document designed to pass ethical values from one generation to the next. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I had found the entire concept very intriguing. I cannot find the blog…