Adventures in Parenting

 Until a few months ago, whenever my son would ask to watch 'Tom and Jerry' during dinner, I would always reply with ' Tom and Jerry have also gone to have dinner. So they can't come on TV ' .And it always worked. That is until last week :)  This time, when I gave him the same explanation, he replied with ' Appa, no joking ' :D 

 The greatest gift parents can give their children is to become emotionally mature themselves. 

 It was a few years before my son was born that I developed an interest in the topic of fear. I had realized that fear creeps into our lives in a million small ways, and we make numerous subconscious decisions each day to avoid potentially fearful experiences. But some of my greatest lessons in fear came after I became a parent. One particular episode comes to my mind.  When my son was about two and a half, we had a water filter in the kitchen. This particular water filter had a self-cleaning mechanism that would kick in every few hours, at which point it would make strange sounds, and multiple lights would start blinking. One night at about 10 PM, my son and I were in the hall and I was coaxing him to finish his glass of milk. Just as he finished his milk, I switched off the light, and incidentally, the water filter's self-cleaning mechanism kicked in right then. We could hear strange sounds. The blinking lights led to ominous looking psychedelic shadows on the wall.  Ou...

 When I became a parent, I did not know what to expect. Well, I did expect chaos to take over for a while, and not surprisingly, it did. The pandemic created its own set of complications, but it was also a blessing in disguise; we were able to spent a lot more time with our son as a result.  I had been thinking about writing about some of my experiences in parenting ; sort of like a diary for me to read years later ,  but I kept putting it off because something would always come up. But today, this fine Sunday morning, it is time. Time for a new blog.. A blog about my adventures and experiences in parenting.