Chapter: 9: Responsible parenting

Like all other universal facts, there's another factor that is mandatory in social sense. The fact that I am talking about is a 8 letter word that completely changes a person whether it be a girl or a boy. That particular 8 letter word is named as *marriage*. This word seems very simple with less syllabic stress but there's an ocean of embedded meanings behind it. Heavy syllabic and obligations are associated with this term. Its most common requirement is the Sense of responsibility.

Well, that's a part of life and we all go through this. The very next step is parenting.

A news of someone's development from embryo till birth is deeply exciting from inside. We all simply long to hear this thing. We take care of the to-be born with so much concern.

And then the moment comes when we welcome the new member at home with open arms and embrace the little life with utmost love and care. For the mother, it is more like overwhelming and she pledge to herself to always extend her laps of eternal and selfless love for her child. And as for the father, he becomes rigid and strong as a mountain for his child sheltering all the toils and turmoil of life. Both the person who were once independent and carefree gets bound to a link, the baby link. Unknowingly, they take a drastic transition from being young and free to being careful and matured in their life. Human life, is so volatile. The couple then experience the practicality of life keeping all the flamboyant things apart.

Rudimentarily, the two learns to cope up with the new experience and situation and things get innate for them. But they still remain circumspect throughout the lifetime.

A mother knows that her child is voracious for her love and affection and a father knows it well that what all contraptions and ingenuity he has to make to make his child feel comfortable and stable.

Sometimes while traveling we come across many nursing mothers (milking mothers) and we instantly face the opposite side as a gesture of respect towards her love for her baby. Have we ever thought of answering a simple question regarding this? The question is simple and innate. Being a girl or a lady all throughout her years, a lady shows shyness and she ensure to keep herself circumspect of her surroundings but at the time of milking she becomes brazen. Why so???

It's not she who is acting brazen or shameless. It's the mother inside her that cries when she sees her baby voraciously asking for milk.

As for the part of a father, usually, nobody must have seen men being much patient enough to tolerate any single act that he dislikes but the same men when becomes a father takes his child on lap and tolerate all the childish acts and questions of his child. Many a times, we come across situations where a child demands and the father denies, in such cases, the child yells and throw his hands over the father, or sometime, even worse when he starts scratching the facial area. Despite of all these, the man still tolerates and manages to divert the child. Guess the element that compels him to act so; yes! It is the sense of being a father, rather a strong wall that may get crust and affected by external things but would still stand firm.

Parenting is truly an amazing and divine experience. It moulds the personality of the two disparate persons. Strangely, The period of parenting has a start point but it never has an end point and surprisingly, no one gets tired or feel bad about it rather does it with greater effort and utmost enthusiasm.