The Joys and Travails of Parenting

You want it, you don’t want it. It is either too early for it and you plan assiduously, or it is too late and you pray vehemently. And when it happens… One moment it is the most gratifying gift on planet earth, the next you feel weighed down by the sheer relentlessness of the demands it makes on you. You start out as a novice and discover that you are one for life. It looks like you have bagged the most unique offer in the world and then you are repeatedly stung by the competitive bug- has she got...

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