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  • Feelings and Emotions,  Motherhood,  Parenting,  Reflections,  SAHM

    Hard Choices

    “I’ll miss you there, Mommy,” he said, with a sad look in his beautiful eyes and with inverted lips which only accentuated his little puffy cheeks. It broke my heart. Why was I doing this, again? To feed my own…

    August 7, 2017
  • Motherhood,  Parenting,  SAHM

    The Unspeakable, Spoken: Why is this so tough?

    I really wish wine did it for me. Isn’t wine supposed to help deal with motherhood, if all those memes are to be believed? Nothing really works for me. I don’t smoke. I don’t really drink…now, I like the idea…

    July 30, 2017
  • Motherhood,  Parenting,  Reflections

    Thoughts during the lifecycle of a sick child

    TJ had fever last week. Pretty much all day. It was a fever that started out of nowhere on Thursday evening, lasted all day Friday, give or take a few hours working off of the strength of the medication, and…

    July 23, 2017
  • Feelings and Emotions,  Growth & Development,  Okay mom,  Parenting,  Years are short

    The kids are growing up too fast…ahem…can someone make them grow faster?

    The years are short.   Enjoy them while they are still little.   They are only little once.   It gets easier.   Sentiments expressed in the sentences above are simmered into the brains of new parents, particularly the primary…

    May 26, 2017
  • Motherhood,  Parenting

    Giving Kids the Space to Fall

    As parents of multiple kids know, picking your favorite child is an impossible task. It is just not done. Now you may have a favorite kid in your head but you don’t voice that preference out loud. The famous Indian-Canadian…

    January 20, 2017
  • Parenting

    Becoming Unroomed: Becoming a Rolling Stone

    As parents, we rarely expect things in return for all the things we do for our kids. This not-expecting clause, is simply a part of the parent job profile. However, as adults, we do learn to expect some things in…

    August 22, 2016
  • Dadlife,  Motherhood,  Parenting,  Parenting Stereotypes,  SAHM

    My Husband works the Second Shift

    I write this with a little bit of embarrassment, a little bit of guilt, and a whole lot of pride in having married so well!   My husband is a saint. No, really, he is. Not the card or cape…

    August 16, 2016
  • Blog Challenges,  Feelings and Emotions,  Motherhood,  Motherhood lessons,  Okay mom,  Parenting,  Reflections,  TJ

    Will I ever learn…

    …that my child is extremely impressionable and that what I do and how I behave absolutely and directly influences what he then does and how he behaves. …that my yelling may seem like a great release for me but may…

    August 3, 2016
  • Baby J,  Blog Challenges,  Motherhood,  Parenting,  Years are short

    Fragile Lives: Fragile Moments – Cherishing the last times

    Whoever said “Cherish every moment with your newborn. These moments don’t last forever” deserves the “Most Cliched Statement of the Parenting World” award, after having battled it out with “Sleep when the baby sleeps” for the top spot. First of…

    August 2, 2016
  • Blog Challenges,  Feelings and Emotions,  Motherhood,  Parenting,  Reflections,  Years are short

    What you don’t know as a parent and a child…

    There are a LOT of things I don’t know about raising kids but like most people, I raise them anyway, making mistakes along the way and sometimes, miraculously, just getting a few things right. Therefore, in a twist of sorts,…

    August 1, 2016
  • Blog Challenges,  Indian Parents,  Motherhood,  Parenting,  Reflections

    A Reality that is Stranger than Fiction

    Being a parent invariably makes me nostalgic about my own childhood in the most surreal way. I look at my older child, careless and carefree, frolicking through life without so much of a frown or a grimace on his cherubic…

    July 31, 2016
  • Discipline,  Parenting,  TJ,  Toddler Days

    Navigating the delicate waters of rewards and punishment

    It began in the most mundanely boring and predictable way possible. As parents, we started punishing bad behavior with time outs and rewarding good behavior with praises, and even more hugs and kisses than we did usually. Then somehow, I…

    July 24, 2016
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I am a former Communication Studies professor turned stay-at-home-mom (SAHM) to two multiracial kids. I write about my adventures in parenting and living a multicultural life with my family. Blogger at: www.thephdmama.com Follow me: @thephdmama

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