(from mother of a teen! with love…….to all the parents!)
I peep………
Her face is sideways
Visible only is the tip of her nose,
Coz her face is hidden beneath her
long, black, tangled, untied hair.
She can hardly hear me
Or for that matter anything/anybody
So oblivious of
everything around her…….
Though I can hear her peals of laughter
as her eyes are glued to the TV!
I peep into the room
of my teen aged daughter……….
For me it is jumble of inside out clothes, bedsheets, towels,
dishes, crying out to be put into their places!
For her, everything is so damn orderly………
O! the triumphant look on her face when she could find
her favorite hairband or remote amidst everything so fast!
“I told you …..everything is perfect ..I know what is where!”
The whole day she can roam about
in oversized clothes, slippers…
Everything at least 3 sizes bigger!
She wore her papa’s pull the whole of winter
and walked with the pride of freedom in those
big, spread out, unapologetic reebok slippers of her dad!
“O, they are so comfy mom….!”
Exams are here,
More than the kids, the moms are
busy exchanging notes and worrying themselves dead..
“You know, my daughter does NOT study at all…”
Gathering courage of a righteous parent,
I admonish her to be serious about her ‘studies’.
I tell her umpteenth times, “I will not remind
you to study. After all, it is your life…you should know how important
it is to………………….”
We mothers walk on such a tight rope,
A LITTLE overdoing AND we are labeled a nagging MOM!
I am advised to ” take a chill pill.”
The room is littered with empty glasses of coke
and scrunched bags/boxes of
pizzas and burgers.
When the things go overboard,
and I wonder “HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH………”
She senses now it is time to beat a retreat……….
She would lovingly put her
arms around me,
her cascade of black silk
nudging softly against my cheeks and would tweet:
“Mumma, I am a child only!
You should have had the willpower to …….,….,…….,………,……..,
…..,………”
