No kidding!
As someone who has lived through a couple of decades of not being a parent, and having had these conversations with folks who aren’t sure of this decision, these are my perspectives on becoming a parent, or not.
Tag: Children
Finn, Tolstoy, and happy families
Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” A.J. Finn’s character in The Woman in the Window says that “No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other.” Who is right?
No kidding
The debate on twitter, some time back, on the subject of kids on Junior MasterChef Australia was an interesting one to watch. I have no definitive opinion on it, and I understand that it can be debated both ways. So, just a few perspectives. I watched the show for a few days, and was amazed […]
Parenthesis
Sometime back, I saw this relatively unknown Malayalam movie called ‘Calendar’, starring Zareena Wahab, playing mother to Navya Nair. Zareena’s character is widowed at 21 and she refuses to remarry since she wants to give all her attention to her child. The movie worked for me, despite it being built on the cliched “kid grows […]
Parent Traps
And Abhinav Bindra got India an individual gold in the Olympics. Old story already, but what made me mention him was his simple yet profound act of thanking his parents. What about that? Well, good parenting. His dad knew that shooting was not exactly on the same level as cricket, Bollywood or politics, but spent […]