Indian Names and Parenting

Here is another gem.

A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was making the dinner. He handed her a piece of paper with his writing on it. After his Mom dried her hands, she read it, and this is what it said:

For cutting the grass: Rs 50
For cleaning up my room this week: Rs 10
For going to the store for you: Rs 20
Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: Rs 20
Taking out the garbage: Rs 10

Total owed: Rs 110

Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote:

For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me:
No Charge

For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you:
No Charge

For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years:
No Charge

For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead:
No Charge

For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose:
No Charge

Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is:
No Charge.

When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.”

And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: “PAID IN FULL”.

Moral

We will never know our parents worth till we become a parent. When it comes to our parents, we indeed have a lot to give…besides money!

Tags: mother, Parenting

Here is a beautiful comparison I found between Parenting and a Kite. I don’t know how many of you agree to this… anyways, read on.

You spend years trying to get them off the ground.

You run with them until you are both breathless. They crash … they hit the roof … you patch, comfort and assure them that someday they will fly.

Finally, they are airborne.

They need more string, and you keep letting it out.

They tug, and with each twist of the twine, there is sadness that goes with joy.

The kite becomes more distant, and you know it won’t be long before that beautiful creature will snap the lifeline that binds you together and will soar as meant to soar, free and alone.

Only then do you know that you have done your job.

Several years back, you started this new phase of life with two people and now left with the same old two people. Also later you will gracefully accept that you came alone with nothing to this earth and you go alone taking nothing with you.

Tags: children, Parenting

This post has got nothing to do with parenting other than that it features a small baby, but I feel it can still stay in the fun section. The man will be surely missed for his humorous/ numerous facial expressions. Let me end this post by wishing good luck to Obama and American parents their much needed change.

Tags: funny baby, funny face