Motherhood is where love, guilt, exhaustion, memory, and ordinary life keep bumping into each other. These stories are about the parts of being a mother that do not fit neatly into celebration, sacrifice, or advice.
This is a category for personal essays on motherhood without performance, perfection, or the pressure to turn every difficult moment into a lesson.
My daughter co sleeps with us. In India, since most young kids do that, I am not majorly worried about her. However, she is nearing six and space on our king sized bed is just starting to become a little squeezed. I spoke to a friend and she said that her three year old also […]
The way I have been working these days, reminded me of my exams. I recollected then that a lot of colleges would have exams now. Exams give me nightmares. Still do in fact. I still have dreams where I find myself absolutely unprepared  on the morning of an exam. I wake up in a stress
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Flipkart Li’l Stars claims to be India’s Biggest Online Kids Store. I was invited to an IndiMeet to experience the launch of this store and interact with the brands as well as parent bloggers. When the invite came, I began thinking about the beginning of flipkart as a book retailer and the journey to becoming
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“Do Your Homework” is perhaps one of the most common phrases parents tell to school going children. I suppose it is right up there after “No!”. This time around, Axis Mutual Fund turns the tables on the parents and instead tells them #DoYourHomework When I was invited by Axis Mutual Fund to be a part
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I confess to letting my kid watch TV everyday….. I confess to letting my kid stay up late…. I confess to leaving her in the care of others while I go out…. Before you judge me for being a bad mother- I confess to letting my kid watch TV at the dinner table so she
This happened while watching the Chennai floods coverage on TV the other night. News: Bad governance in Chennai, areas are flooded, people are in trouble, there is a shortage of food etc etc. Daughter: Did people die in Chennai? Husband: Perhaps. Daughter: Then why aren’t they telling that? I did not know whether to laugh at
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The first  long flight I took with my daughter was when she was 10 months old. We traveled from Delhi to Singapore and I was alone. I was freaked out and I remember reaching to my friends on facebook for advice. Some of the most solid advice I got was from a blogger friend of
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As a mother of an energetic 5 year old, am always looking for meaningful ways to engage her. While I am no dictator when it comes to TV and tablets, we do have a weekends only rule for TV. There are exceptions a plenty to that rule, mostly when I am travelling or out late.
I am zonked!!! It was my daughter’s birthday on 3rd. She turned 5. We had a celebration at her school, then a family lunch followed by an evening celebration at her day care. The next two days were spent in party preparations because we had planned her big 5th Birthday Party on Sunday, the 6th.
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Awesome that today is ThrowbackThursday time… a perfect opportunity for me to look back at the last 5 years…. 5 years of being a mum, 5 years of hugs, kisses and tantrums, 5 years of unconditional love…
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