Nobody tells you that parenting is less about teaching and more about re-learning. That as your child grows, you will be asked to grow too - not in age, but in perspective, patience, and presence.

When your child asks "why" for the 47th time in a day, it’s not just curiosity - it’s an invitation. An invitation to pause, think, unlearn. Sometimes you realise you don’t actually know the answer. Sometimes you discover you’ve been carrying outdated ideas for years.

Every question they ask, every truth they speak - they’re not just growing up, they’re helping you evolve too...!

Maya, a 39-year-old architect from Indore, recalls when her 8-year-old son asked why boys don’t wear pink. "I was about to give some cultural explanation, but I stopped. And I said - maybe they should. That moment changed something in me, not him."

Learning with your children doesn’t mean sitting beside them with a workbook. It means letting their view of the world stretch yours. It’s in the way they forgive quickly. In how they cry without shame. In how they question rules you’ve followed blindly for decades.

And then there are the skills - tech, apps, pop culture, new ideas about gender, mental health, climate, language. Children are growing up in a different world. Sometimes, instead of resisting it, we need to let them show us around.

There’s something humbling about being corrected by a 10-year-old. But there’s also something freeing. It reminds us we don’t have to know everything. That motherhood doesn’t mean mastery - it means willingness.

 

You’ll teach them how to tie shoelaces. They’ll teach you how to apologise without ego.
You’ll teach them gratitude. They’ll teach you how to slow down.
You’ll teach them table manners. They’ll teach you how to dance like nobody’s watching - again.

If you let it, parenting can be a classroom. One where you are both student and teacher. And the best part?
There are no final exams. Only everyday moments where you learn how to love, listen, and live a little better.