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Motherhood is hard. It regretfully does not come with a manual and no mother knows it all. No mother is perfect or can claim to have done everything right, every single time.
Have you been too scared to hold and bathe your newborn?
Or wondered which is the right way of placing a diaper?
Pumped breast milk in restrooms thinking about your crying child at home?
Have you cried at the thought of cleaning your kids’ room for the n th time?
Or watched with a tinge of envy as your child calls out for her nanny?
Have you stood completely helpless as your child threw a tantrum in public?
Or packed junk food in the lunchbox as you had no time to cook?
Have you forgotten your child’s PTM ?
Or spent hours watching movies and playing video games with your kids?
Have you lost your temper and yelled at your teenager ?
Or helplessly shoved a phone in front of your child to feed her?
Have you tried desperately to hold on to your sanity as your house looked as though hit by a hurricane?
Or lost it completely when your child had another “Incomplete” remark in school work?
Have you wondered if you have been inflicted by a chronic condition called “over exhaustion”?
Or caught your two winks of precious sleep as your child watched cartoons on TV?
Motherhood is hard. It regretfully does not come with a manual, and no mother knows it all. No mother is perfect or can claim to have done everything right, every single time.
This mother’s day just breathe and let go of the guilt, the pain, the shame, and the quest for perfection.
As long as you love your children, all is forgiven.
Embrace the real motherhood and stop chasing the ideal one projected by the media.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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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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