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I know, there is no one to disturb me during the night. But, still, I can't sleep.
What is this 8 hours of sleep everyone is talking about?
Everyone talks about it, the yoga instructor, my doctor, my mom, my friends, everyone around me talks about how I should get 8 hours of sleep.
How can you sleep for 8 hours after your kids grow up? Yes, you have read it right.
I know, there is no one to disturb me during the night. I have all the space I need on the bed. I don’t need to worry that a leg or a hand might fall on my nose with a thud. But, still, I can’t sleep.
I miss everything that did not allow me to sleep for 8 hours.
I quote a poem by Nanci Griffith:
‘Where are you going my little one, little one
Where are you going my baby my own
Turn around and you’re two
Turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the door’
Although I don’t have a girl, the feeling is the same. My boys have grown up too fast. Actually, this is a paradox of parenting. It moves both in slow motion and super speed.
I accept their changes as I must, but sometimes I wish they didn’t grow up so fast.
‘They grow up so fast’ is a phrase every mom says. When they were babies we feel even one meal takes an eternity and a sleepless night feels like a lifetime. But I wish I could hold my kids a little longer. I wish I could read bedtime stories and give them a tight hug when they thought that the monster in the stories would come alive.
So ladies who have small babies, please cuddle and sleep, because this won’t last long. They will not be babies for long.
So, trust me when I say that I don’t understand what is this 8 hours of sleep everyone is talking about.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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