Tag: Single parent

A time of challenges

July 30, 2013

Last Tuesday, P, an ex-colleague of mine and a single mother, found out through conclusive tests that her two-year-old son was autistic. She had suspected it for a while, she said. He didn’t look her in the eye and he was too quiet. But she had hoped against hope and kept her fingers crossed all … More A time of challenges

Not alone

January 25, 2013

Someone recently told me, “It’s very brave of you to be able to bring up two daughters single-handedly in a city like Delhi.” But I have never felt ‘single-handed’. I’ve felt overworked, yes, tired, exhausted, worn out and any other synonyms you can come up with. I’ve felt physically incapable of juggling all the ‘work’ … More Not alone