My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

Don’t take responsibility for your child’s disrespect. The time when we are still career builders ourselves or as students we see things with a different perspective.We are more forgiving to our selves and more often  tend to ignore our mistakes , as long as the mistake is irreversible.  After finishing my studies in India when I moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 2003, I looked at everything with a completely different attitude.Even though I was a migrant , I never took my mistakes personally if pointed out. It was a whole new life for me and I took every embarrassment, every fallout as a learning opportunity. Never did the thought crossed my brain that it is my fault and some thing is wrong with me. In India Life, culture, language, etiquette and more importantly accent is so much different compared to U.S.A. For me it was like learning everything from scratch. I would listen to radio show constantly and try to copy the accent. Remind you not the T.V., bu...

We go out to so many places.Restaurants, stores, just random walk and many such places, we observe lots of things.My husband being a very observant person tells me one day, "have you noticed one thing ,where ever you go you will see older people more than young people". He said most people are either in their 40's or more often between

Now that I live in The U.S and I have my own kids I can clearly distinguish the difference between growing up in India and the U.S.

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