Let Your Kids See You Cry
It was only 10 o’clock in the morning and I was already looking forward to bedtime that day. I knew one more whine, one more fight, one more mess would...
Alarmathi Sankaran
Summer: Now & Then
Fighting for the window seat on a train to catch a glimpse of the engine as the train turned… Decades later, this memory is still so fresh and alive in...
The Forgotten Art of Letter Writing
Let’s talk about the lost art of writing letters. Doesn’t it feel like “the good old days” when you consider sitting down to read an age-old, beautifully penned letter? There...
Comparison & Motherhood
There are so many times we as moms fall susceptible to comparison culture. One day a few years ago, I realized my endless scrolling through social media was leading me...
Parenting: The Hardest Part of Raising Kids
When it comes to disciplining and parenting my kids, I always feel a huge pressure which springs from the way I was disciplined growing up on the other side of...
Kindergarten Mom: Our 2020 Version
A few weeks ago on the night before our son started kindergarten, we read a book as a family called On the First Day of Kindergarten. Even as I read...
How Can I Be a Fair Mom?
To the moms of multiples, big hugs from me! I know you are struggling to let your kids know that “the color of the spoon doesn’t matter” every time you...
I Don’t Want to be My Mother
The thought that I don’t want to turn out like my mother has always haunted me. And I recently realized that this wouldn’t have been so deeply rooted in me...
Earth Day: How Can We Celebrate Our Earth?
Kids are the hope of the future, which means they are the hope of the whole world. If you think about it, that makes us the parents of this future...
Silver Linings
To all the moms out there, this is your time. Don’t get disheartened about the current crisis, the social distancing and the sheltering at home! Normally, getting out of the...
New Mom, New Country: My Journey
As a young woman in India, my life was going as planned. I graduated from university, I got a job… and I did not worry about what I would do...
A New Mom in a New Country: What TCMC Did For Me
With our 7th birthday here at Twin Cities Mom Collective on the horizon, we decided to take a moment this week to turn our hearts and minds towards all things...
Say “Yes!” to Traveling with Kids
Considering last year we went from “Oh no! Not another road trip!” to “Wow, it’s already been a month since we went on a trip!”… I would say we have...
Solutions to the Screen Time Nightmare
My 4-year-old pre-kindergartener recently asked me, “Amma (mom), when do I get to have my own phone?” I was taken aback, wondering where is this coming from?! As we talked...
