Today it happens to be the birth anniversary of the great mother of the greatest king from Maharashtra, Shivaji Maharaja. A paean to a mother, to parents is but natural and normal today.
A mother, a good parent, is someone who looks after the total welfare of the child, the emotional, intellectual and the spiritual well-being of the child. She looks after the head, heart, soul of the child. My submission is that Shivaji Maharaj's mother was in this sense not only his mother, but the mother figure of the entire nascent Maratha kingdom. She punished stringently anybody in that kingdom who ill-treated an innocent woman, for instance. As a result, hence, she gave a conscience to the entire emergent kingdom, a true duty of a mother, making it absolutely different from the other principalties then.
A mother, a good parent, never indulges, in brief, a child just to humour it, just to attract its attention away so that she can continue with whatever she wants to do. Often, for example, busy mothers would give a child lot of clothes, eats, toys, and stuff that makes the child lulled away from their "actual" being with the child. A highly pampered child hence is the product who is later on going to find it very difficult to carry on when life is not equally indulgent.
Yet another trend is that parents of parents are left to take care of the child, almost as if it is their bounden duty, while the actual pair of parents is busy with their lifestyle, returning to their parenthood only to scold their own parents if their own child is not brought up their own way. Sad realities of contemporary life!
I must thank my stars that my parents ever granted us the utmost quality time, the best part of themselves so that now however roughly life may choose to treat us , we are never thrown off the track ever. Thank you, Aai-Papa, for being the wonderful parents that you always were.
Pratima@parents are treasures that never diminish.
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