New year begins with new expectations, fun, resolutions....and so much more.

Then comes February.....the Exam time month.....& with it comes tension, fear, ......

All this routine does not effect everybody, only those who let the surrounding effect them!!

It effects

Its plain and simple....my child will be appearing for her 12th , and I do not know how to keep myself tension free.....

Being a parent one has to remember that your child is a grown up. We have the right to be concerned for them, but we do not have the right to interfere or push them.

Reading daily newspapers scare parents more......every other day there is a child taking his/her life.....due to stress of studies or pressure of teachers or parents....

There are some questions that haunt me.....but I don't know what the correct answer is.

1....Should I be more friendlier to my child?.....(not that I was not friendly to her before.. )

2....Should I sit in her room to make her feel that I am there for her always..(or by my doing this it will irritate her more..)

3....Should I feed her nutritious food only and not a little junk?..(I am a parent...should I be even talk about junk....?)

4.....The most important of all....should I allow her phone freedom?...(This is the most damaging..acc. to me..Messeges all day , Replying back, Calling on land line if mobile is switched off...)

Then another very irritating aspect ....being a parent of the Exam giver....Friends and relatives calling to KNOW....how your child is coping up?

......Do not put pressure on her...

......Don't scold her for anything....

......Be with her as much as possible....

AS IF I DID NOT KNOW THAT!!

This whole year has been so difficult.....Always rechecking my behaviour, always listening to my inner voice, asking my well wishers whether what I am doing is correct, stopping myself from getting angry and keeping mouth shut.....ITS HARD.

this too shall pass........I know that.....AND... I know what all parents go through and I am with all of you who feel.....What I felt....

One day will come , And I will feel .....Why did I take so much tension...?