Real Imperfect MOM

Motherhood is a beautiful journey but it's not an easy one. Some of us our lucky to have husband's and family's support to ease parenting. Earlier times, people lived in joint families and there were many helping hands in raising a child, thus a father's role in parenthood was never emphasized. But now as times have changed and most of us have moved from joint family to nuclear family, father's input as an active parent had become important. Where many mothers complaint about father's being inactive and less participative in parenthood, is it really their mistake ? If feel NO. I don't support inactive fatherhood but at the same time would not want to blame them completely for their behaviour. Some of the major reason father's are still inactive are : - Most of the fathers have seen their own father's rare participation in their upbringing and they feel it's normal for a mother to raise a child single handedly. - It's we as mother&

All eyebrows will be raised if I say, I want a baby boy and not a baby girl. For the fact, I always wanted a baby girl, I have a beautiful 16 months old daughter, and in the process of raising her, I badly want to raise a boy. But what actually made me feel this?? Being in 2020, I thought there would be no difference between raising a boy or a girl. And I never did that for my daughter. But to my surprise, people around me were much bothered about how I raise my DAUGHTER and not my child. Something which I usually heard being said to my daughter was : Girls don't play like this, they don't keep jumping around all time, girls don't roam around without a nappy, girls don't shout, etc. These were just some of the talks which my 16 month daugher was told, who didn't even knew the difference between a boy and a girl. And I realised that nothing was said intentionally but something that is being heard and said since generations . But I am sure I don't want