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being completely aware that in fact, you had never intentionally taught them some of these words and mannerisms or when you see them standing before a mirror and trying to groom themselves just like you do.Can you deny — that all this indeed makes you feel special and loved? Isn’t that rewarding too?4. You see and appreciate what falling for someone over and over every day is. Because it happens to you. It might not be love at first sight but it blooms gradually only to become true, honest and the deepest love. You feel every bit of it that is growing deeper and expanding vaster inside you for your little ones, as the days pass, as they grow, as they do their stuff, and as the countless roller coaster rides happen while raising them. You cannot dismiss that every time you realize the depth of your love for them is a feel-good experience. 😊5. Parenting makes you realize and empathize with how it had been for your parents to raise you and your siblings. You start to love and appreciate your mum and dad even more for all that they have done for you with all their patience and care. Though you may have always loved and adored your parents but now, (as a parent yourself) you are able to view their efforts and contribution from a different angle and you start to appreciate them day by day, for all that hard work in raising you and your siblings.6. The kids make you laugh more than you ever thought possible. Let’s face it. As they grow, they attempt to talk and do things like grown-ups and all their attempts are so amusing and endearing. You get ample opportunities in a day itself, to adore them and laugh out loud. Your house becomes an entertainment point. They more often than not, are your stress busters too.7. They forgive you quickly, unlike adults. They don’t hold grudges and hard feelings. Love is all they seek from you. And all that mischievousness is only either to grab attention (that is to feel loved by you) or only because they are unable to handle their big emotions (which could be some anxiety, confusion, fear, discomfort, or stress, which they tend to experience for various reasons while passing through their growth phase).8. Kids help you realize and understand the emotions you went through when you were small. Normally nobody consciously remembers what it was like when they were a child or a baby. But your own child helps you get a picture of it. You find yourself thinking sometimes, this is all that “I must have struggled with and experienced when I was her age”.9. Nothing embarrasses you anymore. You naturally learn to not give a damn about what people would think of you when they hear you sing a rhyme to your little one loud or dance in some shop in a mall to amuse her or you are out to drop her off to school in your PJs or you are making silly noises with her or you are jumping with her in some puddle on a roadside. Your child helps you to be yourself even in a crowd.10. Your tiny tots help you unveil to you what your personal strengths and weaknesses are. It is like you are o

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n some kind of adventure, learning new things and discovering your own (already existing) qualities along the journey. You cannot believe that you have had a natural ability to multitask and work under pressure, as you notice yourself doing so quite well while handling and managing the little brats and their chores as well as other stuff. Your patience expands slowly as the days pass (at least it has in my case).11. How amazing is it that your children serve as a mirror for you, to show you your behaviors and habits that may need to be changed? You can become a better version of yourself as the time passes. You find yourself having become calmer and more mature. You tend to become less judgmental of yourself and appreciate all that you are and do– need not be the (so-called) best parent, you don’t care.12. You also become less judgmental of other parents, rather than people. You learn to understand and sympathize with other parents. Because you now know what is it like to be a parent. You appreciate others’ difficulties and the mere fact that it may not be easy for them.13. You learn more closely to appreciate a simple fact of life that time flies and we must cherish it. Your kid keeps growing before you realize it and you know every time you see her, she won’t be the same after some months. You don’t want to miss those moments. You rather be there feeling and revering every bit of the moment.CHILDREN HOLD THE SECRETS OF LIFE.14. (This one is my favorite). A child teaches you how beautiful it is to be mindful and to live in the present. They don’t worry about the past or stress about the future. They don’t care. They just experience every bit of the present and are happy. Have you ever tried to be like them — to be mindful without wandering into your past or in the future? If you do, it is indeed relaxing and wonderfully pleasant.16. Their attention is their intention. They are wholly curious about everything. Anything that catches their eye interests them. And you simply think that they are doing what all kids do. If you observe them closely, they are exploring to grasp and experience everything that is there in this world and they are never TIRED. You will appreciate that as we grow old, we lose these qualities and then struggle trying to find them again.17. Children help you realize that happiness is not to be achieved but experienced. For the kids, happiness is not a future goal but something they feel every day in the little matters, which adults often fail to even appreciate. They don’t postpone ‘being happy’ to the future. You realize that yes, happiness is only a state of mind and is a choice. These miniature humans tell us (by their conduct) that it is possible to feel the purest bliss if we appreciate every good thing that we have and experience.18. And yes, they give the best cuddles and kisses.So, from what I have gathered, I conclude, that parenting is hard but one of the best things one will ever do. It is a fulfilling and enriching journey.</article></body>

Yes! Children are indeed a wonderful gift

After becoming a parent, I discovered some delightful facts about having a child that I never knew (before).

Before I became a mother (that happened in January 2020), I had often heard stories about the various challenges parents have to face and tackle.

When I was pregnant, I had received (often without asking for it) plentiful advice and tips in relation to the life I was going to begin soon. All of it basically revolved around and contained a warning that life as a mum was going to be intensely tough, that I would not be able to enjoy much once my baby arrived and so I must make the most of it while she was not yet here and that it was going to be very stressful — both mentally as well as physically.

Those who provided this advice and tips included my family, friends, and relatives.

After Gaura was born, I comprehended what they meant. I couldn’t agree more that having and raising kids is not as simple as it may sound and it is not always sunshine and rainbows. The day-in and day-out vagaries of parenting are grueling to handle and manage (especially when you have a high-spirited kid). You frequently go through the worst feelings, you ever thought there could be. It is complicated. (I will write about it someday).

But (after becoming a parent), I also realized that nobody had ever spoken (at least to me or I had not met anyone who had spoken) of some amazing facts about having kids; such as -

1. Children dote on you with the purest honesty and innocence. For them, you, as their parent, are the world and you are probably the most important or perhaps the only person (s) they trust. They eagerly run to you to show you their smallest achievements. They cling to you in situations when they don’t feel confident or are anxious or scared. They are super excited when they see you having come to pick them up after school. Because they adore you unconditionally. It does not matter to them, how you look or even how you smell. They would still accept you and admire you with every ounce of their being. And to have someone, whose affection for you is non-judgmental and constant is the best thing you could ask for. Isn’t it?

2. They are the biggest (and perhaps, like in my case, the only) fans of your singing and dancing. They feel extremely joyous to see you perform. They don’t judge you for your voice or average dancing skills. For them, you are their star.

3. You are their star, indeed, as they want to copy your manners and style. They are obsessed with you and fascinated by all that you do and they want to be like you. You get awestruck when you notice them talk using the same phrases and even tone that you do, being completely aware that in fact, you had never intentionally taught them some of these words and mannerisms or when you see them standing before a mirror and trying to groom themselves just like you do.

Can you deny — that all this indeed makes you feel special and loved? Isn’t that rewarding too?

4. You see and appreciate what falling for someone over and over every day is. Because it happens to you. It might not be love at first sight but it blooms gradually only to become true, honest and the deepest love. You feel every bit of it that is growing deeper and expanding vaster inside you for your little ones, as the days pass, as they grow, as they do their stuff, and as the countless roller coaster rides happen while raising them. You cannot dismiss that every time you realize the depth of your love for them is a feel-good experience. 😊

5. Parenting makes you realize and empathize with how it had been for your parents to raise you and your siblings. You start to love and appreciate your mum and dad even more for all that they have done for you with all their patience and care. Though you may have always loved and adored your parents but now, (as a parent yourself) you are able to view their efforts and contribution from a different angle and you start to appreciate them day by day, for all that hard work in raising you and your siblings.

6. The kids make you laugh more than you ever thought possible. Let’s face it. As they grow, they attempt to talk and do things like grown-ups and all their attempts are so amusing and endearing. You get ample opportunities in a day itself, to adore them and laugh out loud. Your house becomes an entertainment point. They more often than not, are your stress busters too.

7. They forgive you quickly, unlike adults. They don’t hold grudges and hard feelings. Love is all they seek from you. And all that mischievousness is only either to grab attention (that is to feel loved by you) or only because they are unable to handle their big emotions (which could be some anxiety, confusion, fear, discomfort, or stress, which they tend to experience for various reasons while passing through their growth phase).

8. Kids help you realize and understand the emotions you went through when you were small. Normally nobody consciously remembers what it was like when they were a child or a baby. But your own child helps you get a picture of it. You find yourself thinking sometimes, this is all that “I must have struggled with and experienced when I was her age”.

9. Nothing embarrasses you anymore. You naturally learn to not give a damn about what people would think of you when they hear you sing a rhyme to your little one loud or dance in some shop in a mall to amuse her or you are out to drop her off to school in your PJs or you are making silly noises with her or you are jumping with her in some puddle on a roadside. Your child helps you to be yourself even in a crowd.

10. Your tiny tots help you unveil to you what your personal strengths and weaknesses are. It is like you are on some kind of adventure, learning new things and discovering your own (already existing) qualities along the journey. You cannot believe that you have had a natural ability to multitask and work under pressure, as you notice yourself doing so quite well while handling and managing the little brats and their chores as well as other stuff. Your patience expands slowly as the days pass (at least it has in my case).

11. How amazing is it that your children serve as a mirror for you, to show you your behaviors and habits that may need to be changed? You can become a better version of yourself as the time passes. You find yourself having become calmer and more mature. You tend to become less judgmental of yourself and appreciate all that you are and do– need not be the (so-called) best parent, you don’t care.

12. You also become less judgmental of other parents, rather than people. You learn to understand and sympathize with other parents. Because you now know what is it like to be a parent. You appreciate others’ difficulties and the mere fact that it may not be easy for them.

13. You learn more closely to appreciate a simple fact of life that time flies and we must cherish it. Your kid keeps growing before you realize it and you know every time you see her, she won’t be the same after some months. You don’t want to miss those moments. You rather be there feeling and revering every bit of the moment.

CHILDREN HOLD THE SECRETS OF LIFE.

14. (This one is my favorite). A child teaches you how beautiful it is to be mindful and to live in the present. They don’t worry about the past or stress about the future. They don’t care. They just experience every bit of the present and are happy. Have you ever tried to be like them — to be mindful without wandering into your past or in the future? If you do, it is indeed relaxing and wonderfully pleasant.

16. Their attention is their intention. They are wholly curious about everything. Anything that catches their eye interests them. And you simply think that they are doing what all kids do. If you observe them closely, they are exploring to grasp and experience everything that is there in this world and they are never TIRED. You will appreciate that as we grow old, we lose these qualities and then struggle trying to find them again.

17. Children help you realize that happiness is not to be achieved but experienced. For the kids, happiness is not a future goal but something they feel every day in the little matters, which adults often fail to even appreciate. They don’t postpone ‘being happy’ to the future. You realize that yes, happiness is only a state of mind and is a choice. These miniature humans tell us (by their conduct) that it is possible to feel the purest bliss if we appreciate every good thing that we have and experience.

18. And yes, they give the best cuddles and kisses.

So, from what I have gathered, I conclude, that parenting is hard but one of the best things one will ever do. It is a fulfilling and enriching journey.