Nobody warns you that the hardest part of being a working mother in India isn't the workload. It's the guilt. Guilt at the office when a school event notification appears on your phone. Guilt at home when the laptop is still open at 9 PM. Guilt when you need help and guilt when you ask for it. And somewhere underneath all of it, the persistent, exhausting question: Am I doing enough—at work, at home, for myself—or am I failing at all three simultaneously? The answer, for most Indian working mothers, is that you are doing more than enough—in a system that was not designed for you to succeed in both roles simultaneously and that has never been fully honest about that fact. Strategies for working mothers in India have to be built around Indian realities—not Western frameworks that assume equitable domestic load-sharing, affordable childcare infrastructure, or the freedom to set boundaries without significant social consequences. The strategies below are built for the actual contex...
Fatherhood is a wonderful experience. Watching your kids grow up, learn things, accomplish, and develop into their personalities is the top feeling in the universe. Yet as with most things in life, immense things bring in hard work and challenges. Fatherhood most certainly brings in challenges. We asked fathers about the challenges of fatherhood and how they conquered them. Scroll down and let us have a look at those points. Challenges of Fatherhood 1. Discipline; and getting it correct with tough love: A maximum of us that grew up with our dads (particularly the Indian folks reading this) perhaps grew up with a little strict dad, that was the old-style method! And there are absolutely some optimists to the strict, tough-love tactic. But I guess as we have evolved and acquired, we have realized that in fact, we need to accept different methods at various times. And here lies the problem. Hitting that proper stability between being a supportive and inspiring ear and plain old stric...