Comments on: On being "Auntie"

By: HyperActiveX

HyperActiveX — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:34:32 +0000

Great post! Very balanced, mature and humane. Makes me wish you could be auntie to my 2 brats

By: Kiran

Kiran — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:57:16 +0000

This post is most endearing! Loved it

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By: Nova

Nova — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:47:16 +0000

Nice one Thats quite a compliment

By: Usha

Usha — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:56:08 +0000

This is precisely the kind of person I had imagined you to be.
There used to be a saying : God couldn’t be everywhere- so he made moms.
I wish to add: Moms cant be everything to a child – they need aunties.
Sometimes parents get too involved about their child and that is when it helps having a sensitive, knowledgeable, friendly aunty.
I wish every child could have a shefaly aunty – their lioves would be so much more enriched.
If I had a small child, you are the kind of aunty whose influence I’d want him to have.

By: Apar

Apar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:07:27 +0000

Being a quasi-parent is always easier I should know…been an aunty for ages. Being a parent is 24/7 with all the responsibilities and pressures that go with it all the time.So, if there are any mistakes by a parent, I would just say nobody is perfect and the mistake would definitely not be intentional. I wish I had an aunty like you around me to leave my son for a while and get things done
Good post.

By: corporate serf

corporate serf — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:41:31 +0000

“Maasi” (lit. like a mother)

Eh, no. The sanskrit word is matri-sasaa , mother’s sister. In Bengali, father’s sister is called pisi , with an analogous root. (of course, we also have the word “maasi” .

Other great post, as always. Can’t visit your blog too much these days, tho

By: 30in2005

30in2005 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:19:04 +0000

‘What value, sceptics ask, can a non-parent possibly add to a child? Plenty, I think’

Go look at http://www.starkstork.wordpress.com for a similar story…

By: Mythili

Mythili — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:01:03 +0000

In the Indian culture, we often equate the idea of respect with non-questioning, quiet acquiescence, non debate and non curiosity.

- that’s a wow stmt You got that bang on!