Articles by me / Published ArticlesForsaking Your Financial Freedom at the Altar of Motherhood and Other Bad Ideas (The Quint) September 19, 2018 Written by 0 I decided not to find work until my kids grew up. In hindsight, the decision was flawed & I did myself a disservice.“You are not an involved mother, but I have just accepted that about you,” my sulky 15-year-old said to me recently.To say that her words came as a shock to me would be to put it mildly. Having given up my thriving career as an offering on the altar of motherhood, I had taken a sanctimonious view towards parenting. I believed that one had to give it their best and my best meant giving up being everything else I had ever been, to assume my role as a mother.This happy sacrifice briefly gave me a sense of moral superiority as a parent with an initial – “Look! My child matters so much to me that I have made a bonfire of my career and I am basking in the glow of its embers.”Read MoreFurther Reading... I got my Lake Como in Srinagar, but far prettier August 19, 2024 Parenting your parent on holiday November 9, 2024 Lit Fest | Too woke to be funny February 17, 2024 Previous PostDog With a Blog: How I Escaped an Untimely Death at the Hands of My Owner Next PostWith Wings of Steel (Published in Make in India Magazine – 2016)
