Check all the Books Here Name of the book: I Made a Booboo Author: Shivangi Sharma Read some reviews: 1. Arti 2. Olga Mecking 3. Rakhi Jayashankar The Book: Once upon a time there was a woman who used to sleep eight hours a day and laze around on weekends. Her clothes were mostly free of gross body […]
Parenting
Letting You Fly
We reached the garden. You saw the gigantic metal giraffe painted in red and yellow and green. Colours designed to attract every little soul who entered the garden. Without warning you left my hand and ran to the giraffe. Before I realised it your feet were on the first rungs of the bars that made […]
For my daughter on her wedding day
I can still remember your first kick, The wonder of that tiny bubble of a movement within me, The love that flooded my heart and brought tears to my eyes. I remember how you would wake up With a cheerful toothless smile Bringing sunshine to my day. Your first words, your first steps, The first […]
Are You Turning Your Kid Into An Assembly Line Person?
She came to pick her little daughter up from my language development class. And she looked harassed. Now she is normally not a mother to look like that, so I asked her what was wrong. “Sunita,” she said, almost in tears, “I feel like such a bad mother. I don’t know what to do” “Why? […]
Your first day at school
I remember that first cry of yours – an angry squeal, as if to ask, “Why are you taking me away from my mother?” How tiny you were then! You seemed so fragile! You were so beautiful! I remember how proud your father and I were of you, our own little twin daughters! You were […]