To My Children
Being a parent is not that easy. My 16 years of parenthood has made me realize that parenthood has become more and more stressful and hard. Especially when you inherit a culture where youwere more inclined to arrange marriages where you were taught that a relationship before marriage is wrong and you never had the permission of choosing your own partner. I never had the feeling that my parents denied me any rights or I had not enough freedom of my life. When I look back I still believe I lived my life in its full meaning. I believed my parents made better decisions for me, it would have been worse if the choice was mine. But those days are gone. Here I am raising my kids in a world where everything is in my kid’s fingertip. I feel I don’t have any control over what my kids watch, what my kids do or what decisions they make; even though we act like we are so diligent in bringing them up, that’s the reality. Most of the time I struggle between the dos and don’ts. I sometimes am not sur...