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Of Independence and interdependence

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These days ‘mom’ is synonymous with a number of things – I need help with an art project ‘MOM’, I can’t find my sock ‘ MOM’, Should I flush this time or should it be the next? ‘MOM’. What’s for breakfast ‘MOM’, can I have a snack ‘MOM’. Well, it so happens that this ‘MOM’ happens to be one person only with a single mind (that is often scattered, thanks to online everything.) who hears this 20 million times a day. It wasn’t helping my sanity nor improving our relationship, as you may have guessed by now. In writing this … Continue reading Of Independence and interdependence

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If Parenting was a game of Super Mario

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Today in the life of Super Mario Mothers (you know, like in Super Mario brothers) You wake up and realize its 7 am and princess peach (aka this day of school) may just have gotten away from you. So Ready set go! A cup of tea comes your way, take it, grow a size and jump over some Goombas. Child one is up as soon as you wake him, you just ducked a koopa there, way to go! He’s in time to actually brush, eat breakfast and head to school. You made 3 perfect stars and coins. Level 1 completed. … Continue reading If Parenting was a game of Super Mario

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The many Goddesses of my kitchen

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The kitchen is not my zen space, in fact I don’t enjoy being in the kitchen at all. I procrastinate entering the kitchen as much as I can and once inside I hurry through the cooking process so I can get out as quickly as I can. I dislike my kitchen, it feels unproductive to spend so much time making something that is polished off in 15 minutes! Why then do you cook, you ask, if you don’t like it so much don’t do it. And you would be right! I didn’t, until this dang pandemic sent us all into … Continue reading The many Goddesses of my kitchen

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10 reasons why raising children is like running a start-up

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After many years of running marketing for technology start-ups and some of the largest companies in India, I decided to take a break and raise my kids instead. Who’d have thought that start-ups and kids have so much in common. I may not have believed it a few years ago but now it all seems too true. You often hear business ideas, start-ups being referred to as ‘my baby’ well who is to say my babies are not a start-up in themselves. Consider this, with both in the early days you have no idea how they will work but you … Continue reading 10 reasons why raising children is like running a start-up