Maa.....dedicated to YOU only...

Like the seven ages of man, there are four ages of motherhood. The first stage lasts as long as she can assist the children with their homework and when they are still afraid of the dark. Perhaps that is also the time when children think mothers have superhuman powers and can do anything. In stage two there is a dramatic reversal. The teenager now is absolutely sure that the mother is anti-God, who is out to torment her wards. Roughly 1,000 days after the mother starts to think that the phase will never end, and notices that her grey is now visibly showing, the adolescent magically transforms into a youth. He or she now no longer thinks the mother is an enemy. That's because they don't think anything of the mother. Par more interesting things occupy their minds in the world that has suddenly opened up before them. Amma and the old man accept the reality stoically and watch the nine o'clock news ! with one eye on the clock, and the other, drooping.
Stage four is when the children become independent adults. Life comes a full circle when some technologically challenged mothers, awed by all the things that their wards can do with computers and gadgets, begin to believe that their child is a super-kid in the digital world who can get anything done by clicking a few buttons.