Accountability of a mother

Mother’s responsibilities

* Housewife 

* Cook 

* Tailor 

* Watchman 

* Laundry lady 

* Teacher

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Everyone born into this time and space arrangement carries responsibilities of some kind. Children are naturally exempt until they start schooling. ‘No painter’s brush or poet’s pen in justice to her fame has ever reached half high enough to write a mother’s name’. Mother in other words carries enormous responsibilities minus the credit attached to her tasks.

Browsing through my archaic collection of literal gems, I picked up an essay my daughter had written at the age of 12. Highlighting mother’s experience as a housewife she had managed to enrich the essay with wit and fact where many tend to forget the accountability of a mother.

Under the caption, ‘a day in the life of a housewife’ she had put pen to paper, thus: ‘To be a housewife means to be always on toes attending to endless chores and yet there is an immense pleasure worth all the trouble’, says my mom’.

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