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Parenting And The Unwanted Promotion


Call it social conditioning or nature’s plan for survival, a woman feeling her biological clock ticking is a very real phenomenon. Whatever maybe our life's goal, being a mother, for most of us, is high on the list of priorities. Once we feel the tick tock, the sight of gurgling babies in prams, mothers watching… Continue reading Parenting And The Unwanted Promotion

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Mother is a Feeling


A mother is a feeling!! She's an emotion that you feel, like a warm safe cocoon enveloping you, Like sunlight on a cold day, Or a cool kiss on your warm forehead. She's the relief that you feel when you hear footsteps approaching your bed in the dark night.....only to discover it's her making sure… Continue reading Mother is a Feeling

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Like Child, Like Mother


If I were asked to close my eyes and think of my childhood, it would be a time travel into a state of happy memories. My sister and I pretending to be princesses, dressing up as our mum in heels, giving our Barbie dolls haircuts, because mom told us hair grows back faster after a… Continue reading Like Child, Like Mother

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Adultism – The Discrimination Against Children


Adultism - is the deliberate discrimination, against a person or family of a person who is not an adult, namely young children. It is that uncomfortable feeling every parent is subjected to at some time, by other adults, to convey that their child is not welcome in a certain premise. The term 'child-friendly' has also… Continue reading Adultism – The Discrimination Against Children

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All My Bags Are Packed….Oh Wait, There’s More??!


Travel Diaries of the Amateur Winter Traveller: There is a saying, you can tell how cold a mother is feeling by the number of layers her child is dressed in. Unfortunately in Mumbai's equatorial climate anything more than shorts and singlets could result in second degree burns. Which sadly, deprives us Mumbai Mums of the… Continue reading All My Bags Are Packed….Oh Wait, There’s More??!