Women’s Web is saying Goodbye! Please make sure you read this important notification.
Every parent no matter who they are, likes to celebrate their kids' success. They don't distribute sweets anymore, but share it on social media.
If you are a parent to a child who has appeared for a board exam and awaiting the results, you would know how difficult it is to stay calm.
Staying calm, whenever you step out of the house…in the lift, at the market, on the jogging track, and answering every question about how the exam was, when are the results expected, and what next.
It’s becomes everyone’s business. I know most of it is because they are concerned but it becomes a little difficult when you are already under pressure.
When I say pressure, I don’t mean the pressure of my expectations for my child. The pressure is to handle his mood swings, keep him motivated at all times and telling him to give his best and don’t worry about anything else.
The day the results are announced brings its own set of problems. The phone doesn’t stop ringing because my Mom has told everyone that he has done well.
My son was so embarrassed and asked us not to make a big issue of it. Kids, nowadays don’t find anything exciting, that is a different issue altogether.
I told him that, my Dad used to distribute sweets, whenever we got the results of our annual exam every year from Class 1 to Post Graduation.
He laughed and said,“Who does that, it must have been so embarrassing!”
I said, “No, it was not.” I really enjoyed all the appreciation.
Today, when I saw the following posts on Twitter, I felt nice and I showed them to my son and said “See…every parent no matter who they are, likes to celebrate their kids’ success. They don’t distribute sweets anymore, but share it on social media.
One thing is sure, parenting is rewarding and fills your heart with love in a million ways and celebrities are not an exception to that rule
Image courtesy: Twitter
Cover image via Instagram/smritiiraniofficial
read more...
This post has published with none or minimal editorial intervention. Women's Web is an open platform that publishes a diversity of views, individual posts do not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions at all times.
Stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter or Daily Summary - or both!
Dear Women’s Web Community Member,
You may have wondered at our being on the quieter side during the last couple of months. Thank you for your patience, and we wanted to come back to you with a detailed note on what’s been happening at our end of things.
When we first began Women’s Web, as a blog from one woman’s desk along with a few like-minded souls, little could we have imagined the heights that it would soar to. Over the years, Women’s Web has published over 20000 stories (almost all by women), empowered countless women with the ideas, community and resources to chase their dreams, employed hundreds of women in core and project-based roles, and in the process, emerged as the OG women’s community in India. It has also inspired many others to build communities of a similar nature, all enabling women (and other-underrepresented groups) in their own ways.
Please enter your email address