There is a Time for "Everything"
by Mrs. Jim P
(India)
Being a mother is the most beautiful yet hardest role a woman has to play in her life.
Bringing up kids, changing their clothes, feeding them and teaching them, so many thing are there and you need to be perfect in whatever you do.
However, it becomes very painful when you see your kids in pain, suffering.
As soon as my girl stepped into her teenage years, she started demanding her freedom, her space.
I told her that it's your space already, you don't have to ask for it, you have to learn it and then it is yours.
But you know how teens behave.
She would start going out without telling me and moreover she started staying out of the house and one fine day when she was just 17 years old, the bad news came; she was pregnant.
I don't see anything wrong in going out, enjoying time with friends, but sex is something that has its own implications.
It is just not about physical enjoyment but it is something more than that. It demands maturity from the two beings.
My daughter was not mature enough and that's why she became pregnant at the age of 17 when it was not required or good for her to be pregnant.
This became a time of introspection for me as well as for my daughter.
We somehow sorted the situation out and now she is studying happily at Harvard with her past totally forgotten.
I would suggest to every parenting mother that talking only about freedom to your children will not help; you have to make your kids aware of a sense of responsibility for their lives and actions also.
A sense of responsibility towards themselves, their parents and towards society.
Freedom brings responsibility and this is the bottom line because it is the duty of every parent to ensure that their kids do not misunderstand the meaning of freedom and end up doing what they shouldn't be doing when they shouldn't be doing it.
I found this opportunity to share my experience on this website and I suppose it was my duty to share my experience here so that no one else goes through what I have experienced.
