Sunday, June 7, 2009

You know what they say about shaadi ke laddoo - jo khaye woh pacchhtaye aur jo na khaye, woh bhi pacchhtaye. Translated this would read - The sweetmeat of marriage - he who eats it regrets; and he who doesn't, also regrets :) . I think that actually applies to having children. A few years into marriage, you get all emotional about having children. With the first child you are simply obsessed ( I used to get up at night and nervously check if he was breathing). Once you have them you yearn for those freedom days.


Both my kids go to different schools. One is in the fourth and the other has just started with nursery. Everyone advised me against doing this but the problem is that my older son goes to an international school - which translates into a Very Expensive School. Since my toddler was merely going to spend a couple of hours at school for the next 3 years - I thought it made sense to send him to another, less expensive, school. Which actually meant that their shared vacation period was a total of seven days. Now my younger son has started school while the older one is going to be at home for the next two months, almost. This means poor me gets no time off at all. Add to this the fact that the older one has suddenly decided to become a smart alec. He thinks saying things like "you are such a lazy mom" in front of a queue of people waiting to board a flight is hillarious stuff. He has also gotten umbilically attached to his birthday gift - a psp. Which means I have to repeat every single sentence a couple of times before his brain grasps it. And the younger has this "violent streak" in him which shows up at alarmingly regular intervals these days. The genetic basis of his behaviour was being animatedly discussed at our house as all of us are such thanda thanda cool cool types. Finally after a visiting cousin named him Osama (after watching him pull his brother's shirt in anger yelling " tu ruk mujhe maarne de" for having dared to pull his cheeks"), we decided he is a throwback to some neanderthal ancestor.

Cute na? I can't wait to see what new problems I will face in the coming years. ( Yep that's me being sarcastic.)

10 comments:

  1. lol :-)

    Kids are that ways!!!! Am sure you are prepared to listen to all kinds of gem from them :-)

    Nice sweet post and good to see u back :)

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  2. hey smita
    finding my way around here will take me some time. the last time i replied to your comment, i simply got signed out! thanks for the comment.
    cheers

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  3. Hey Dear !

    Xactly what I was thinking last night. My son is 14 and is showing so many changes in his behaviour that I was taken aback. Also, as I was reading "In Cold Blood" last night, I was in a grim mood and wondered if my son would grow up to be a criminal. Whew !

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  4. ava

    haha - sounds like a grim book indeed. But agar bachche abhi se aise hain, toh adolescence mein pata nahin kya hoga. the teens are infamously tough - i would probably just wash my hands off the whole outcome :)
    cheers

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  5. Sigh - at that time, it is too late :( You just have to grin and bear it.

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  6. hey! you are back - and now i know why you take so much time to write :-)

    Try looking at both ur family trees for a violent streak... maybe the gene is just lying formant in you two :-)

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  7. hey spike
    sorry for the err....delayed reply. u r right. blogosphere is not a zone i took to like a duck to water. the violent streak is dormant only - we are like that only. what to do. par my point is that the younger one is so unembarrased about it:)

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  8. if it comes naturally to him, he wont be embarassed about it - but with time and by observing how all people around him respond, he too will become docile :-)

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  9. Girl... I so enjoyed reading this one... and I guess my mom, if she reads this would tell you to be patient... I was a violent kid, with a tendency to throw up post every tantrum... I wonder what poetic justice my kid would impart if ever i have one... :)

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