Mom guilt? Every mom knows the feeling "Am I doing enough?" Get over that mom guilt, right now by stealing its power. Read on to know how I have come to embrace mom guilt and learnt to live peacefully.
Category: Parenting
I can’t help it
... but I'm turning into my own mother more often that I would have liked to. That's when I pressed STOP. Before you read further, I'd recommend reading the earlier posts of this series. Please start here. The past two months have been heavy on introspection. They've been painful because of hurtful revelations yet fruitful …
Provoked
Please read the previous parts of this series here: Part 1 and Part 2. It is rather easy to find an excuse for everything that doesn't go as per our plan. But, attempting to see the possible causes, working around them to obtain desirable changes is often the best way to go about it. In my …
Understanding
Repeated conflicts between me and my child made one thing very clear to me, that this was not limited to the differences in our temperaments. It was deeper and something that I was failing to understand clearly. I am one of the few people of the world who are too scared to turn to Google …
Celebrating the differences
In my heart, I am well aware that my child isn't my photo-copy. She is an extension of me, an inseparable part of me, but she isn't a miniature me. However, this understanding fails miserably the minute I don my parent cape. From the day I started journaling my life as a parent, I have always …