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HOW I SPENT MY TIME AND MANAGED MY
SON DURING THIS LOCKDOWN?
By S.JAYASHREE
accustomed to this lifestyle and each
one of us will have our own
grievances, I just want to bring forth
some of the positive aspects in my
life because of this lockdown.
1). To begin with, I had actually
suspended my career post the birth
of my son and was completely a
homemaker until he started his
lower kindergarten in school.
Though I never tried to compromise
The topic I have chosen is not
on the quality time I spend with him
something new and we have been post resuming my career, yet this 1.5
seeing these kinds of posts from months has added more flavour to
March mid-week from across the this mother-son relationship. Though
world. Yet I chose this topic to share this lockdown meant juggling
my personal experience of how I between household work, office
managed to work from home as well work, attending official meetings,
as keeping my 9 year old son helping him with his online
engaged. I do accept it‟s a challenge homework given by his school
not only for me but almost everyone teachers and so on but still my mere
across the world but just presenting presence with him 24/7 all these 45
how I handled it. days(as of May 1st week) is
something which I can never expect
Before I begin sharing my to get anytime sooner.
experience, my thoughts and prayers True that I get to spend time with
to thousands of lives that are lost him on weekends, even before
because of COVID 2019 and to their lockdown but we do have other
families. Feel so blessed and priorities planned during weekends
fortunate to have been safe at home which could be done only on
and able to pen down this essay. weekends for working moms which,
While I wholeheartedly accept that reduces the bonding time. I would
life has tremendously changed from definitely say that the mother-son
March mid-week and all of us had to
make many compromises to get
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