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Enjoy life with you kids by being good to yourself first. Nurture yourself, spend some time on yourself, have some passion and add value to your identity.
I have a relative who is a mom of two. I feel that being a mother is the biggest project of her life.
Entire day she keeps herself totally occupied with her kids. Her day entirely revolves around her kids. She wakes up at a time that suits her kids and sleeps at a time that suits them. The activities of her day are planned totally around her kids; feeding her kids on time, teaching them discipline, helping them in their school work, making them excel in school, enabling them to learn as many skills as possible, be their bodyguard wherever they go, and the list is long.
Even when her kids are not around, she is busy planning for them. Organising their wardrobes, scheduling their day and planning their meals.
She is involved with her kids to that extent that she sometimes even forgets herself. Many times she even forgets to comb her hair, to eat her meals on time and pay attention to her body requirements.
Being a mother of two myself, I can fully relate to her. But I don’t think that to be a mother, you have to completely ignore your existence. You were a woman before being a mother and you had your own identity. You wanted to exist in this world because of your own interest in living. In the pursuit of making others (kids) happy, why ignore yourself completely?
Same applies to the fathers as well. When the target of your life becomes giving the best education, the best standard of living and the best facilities for your kids, you forget that you also exist in their life.
If something is of the utmost importance in your kids’ life, then that is ‘YOU’, their parents. They need their parents, more than anything else. You took the responsibility to bring them in this world, to make your world beautiful and now your focus entirely shifted from yourself to them.
Enjoy life with them, by being good to yourself first. Nurture yourself, spend some time on yourself, have some passion, learn something new every day and add value to your identity. When you are happy, you spread the happiness around.
Parenting has to work on both sides. Be a good parent to yourself.
Parent your kids, after you parent yourself.
#Loveyourself
#breakfreefromstress
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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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