Her Mother & Her daughter!

Shubhabrata Kundu
3 min readMay 24, 2021

In this era of screenagers, it is quite but difficult to locate a muggle amongst the millennial!

Divergent to the ubiquitous motherly theories, today’s adolescents nurture way faster than a 90’s teen.

When it boils down to mental power, awareness, or even socio-activities, your kids may outwit you hands down.

Done with your parental worries? Or is it?

Ever since she embraced puberty, you’ve been pondering on how to align her with the physical and mental alterations the innocent soul is subjected to.

D’oh! She got this already.

You saw how intense it’s been to educate her proactively on this transition, where every day will be a new challenge.

Hormones springing downhill entices the hyper-active mind to bring out uncanny emotions from within, and you don’t know how to handle her tantrums! Maybe, your role as a parent is to pacify her during these roller-coaster rides.

It Is time she’ll start keeping secrets!

As much as you would love to know them, your constant efforts to de-tangle her might piss her off. She is looking at you as a guardian, not merely her friend.

A responsible parent that you’re, let her enjoy the topsy-turvy fantasies. For this age is such, once gone it’s never gonna come back!

One fine morning, she wakes up to the delightful sun and wants to hug you tight. Though you seem perplexed as to who appeared in her dreams, she might just want to soak herself into the warmth of your caring heart.

Understand her, and she’ll stop worrying you!

Fair enough that you will be judgmental towards her friends coming over, a little bit of goofiness does not melt the pot. You need to chillax, Mommy!

Back from school, she urges to talk about her insecurities; but chokes. Her effervescence is gone for a toss, and she wonders why is this even happening!

Let her feel that it is okay to mess it up at times.

At last, she shouts at you for your ignorance, cries loud to hide her instabilities, and stops living by the edge. She’s laid back ever since, and you find no light out of the dark tunnel.

Walk her down to the woods in the evening and confess your deepest secret. Let her know why it is a secret. Tell her it is okay to keep memories within. Come clean of your worries and let her in.

Once she starts understanding you, you too will stop bothering her!

Start incarnating. Tell her how it was when you were her. Your entangled hardships, your lingering dilemma, your bequeathed loneliness will inspire her.

Her emotions might fail her, but an inadvertent mind will try and stop her from breaking down. Uplift her mind and let her sense your love. For your love be so strong that it topples the wall of rigidness within her, and she melts down from the eyes to breathe out the gust of anxieties.

Your heart might skip a beat or two seeing her vulnerable, but it’ll be enough to bring sanity back in her disdainful soul. Today, you be her soulmate, her best friend!

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Shubhabrata Kundu

Writer, Managing Director, Das Writing Services Pvt. Ltd.