Getting Bored!

I remember my mom making me do odd chores like helping in the kitchen or putting ghee on the rotis or going to the terrace with the achaar and how we use to eat other peoples raw mango pickles while no one was watching. The daughter is loving her time and space and having the mornings to herself organizing parties and ordering cakes on her toy phone, or running errands with dadi or just helping her squeeze the mango juice or making designs with the bhindi that I have cut.
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Not sure if this is something moms teach kids or kids really understand what it means. Actually why moms, lets put it as parents. So just when school was about to end a lot of parents kept speaking about what are we going to do with the kids for 2 whole months and I wondered was I also such a pain during the holidays when I went to school?

I remember holidays only being mama’s house, nani’s house, good food, playing in the building compound, hanging out with friends and grandparents doing literally nothing. As I was growing up it was probably music and friends and doing some ‘lukhagiri’ as you would call it in Bombay or just tucking in a blankie for days and finishing my favourite novels. Or actually staying up late and reading the novel under the blankie so mom would not scream at me to go to sleep. There was no concept actually, no time to get bored!

Our kids these days are so over stimulated that the word bored comes to them so easily. I remember my mom making me do odd chores like helping in the kitchen or putting ghee on the rotis or going to the terrace with the achaar and how we use to eat other peoples raw mango pickles while no one was watching. Hmmmm! Really those were the days!

So in our world it’s not really changed as well! The daughter is loving her time and space and having the mornings to herself organizing parties and ordering cakes on her toy phone, or running errands with dadi or just helping her squeeze the mango juice or making designs with the bhindi that I have cut. Helping me clean all the cupboards, create space for the new baby, accompanying me for all my doctors appointments, collecting reports, grocery shopping, going to the bank or ATM, literally like my shawdow. She loves her me time reading her books and spreading a napkin on the floor and getting all her toys out and pretend like she is saying a story. I love listening to her stories too.

The concept of getting bored doesn’t exist for us and we love what we do! So mom, just leave us alone!

This post was first published on Momsdiaries

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