{"id":1114,"date":"2022-11-08T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attagalatta.com\/booksmart\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:17:54","slug":"the-7-sins-of-being-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attagalatta.com\/booksmart\/the-7-sins-of-being-a-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Sins of Being a Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 7 Sins of Being a Mother<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Juggernaut (2021)<\/p>\n

I read the seven sins of being a mother by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana. The 116-page-book consists of an introduction \u2013\u2018The sinning starts at forty weeks: pregnancy\u2019 and seven chapters named after seven \u2018sins.\u2019<\/p>\n

In the introduction, the author talks about her meeting with the gynecologist and discusses the euphemisms for sex used by the doctor. Chotu masi turns out to be quite a character and the author keeps referring to her husband, actor Ayushman Khurrana, as \u201cmy boy,\u201d which started grating on my nerves a bit. The reader is left with the image of the author swearing her way through labour.<\/p>\n

In chapter one or \u2018The first sin: Sex,\u2019 the author scandalizes the reader with her trip to Bangkok and to a ping-pong show, which is a live porn circus, capping it off with her entry into the mile-high club on the way back. I did not see that coming in a book on motherhood! <\/p>\n

In the second chapter or \u2018Guilt,\u2019 she turns her baby blue. She doesn\u2019t get a nanny and forgets her baby behind at a restaurant. <\/p>\n

In the third chapter named after the third sin, \u2018infidelity,\u2019 the author goes through a mid-life crisis at 32 years and obsesses over her husband\u2019s classmate. <\/p>\n

In chapter four, \u2018not a sin, but a confession \u2013 \u2018submission,\u2019 the author takes us through the experiences of bullying she faced as a child and how she couldn\u2019t stick up for herself when kids troubled her since she had been abused. <\/p>\n

In the fourth chapter named after the sin, \u2018Tyranny\u2019, she recounts anecdotes regarding her nannies. The fifth sin or \u2018Obscenity\u2019 is all about when the author\u2019s little son picks up on the four-letter words he hears and keeps chanting them.<\/p>\n

The sixth sin or corruption is about how the author tries to bribe her son to sleep in his room in exchange for a fancy toy and the repercussions this leads to. <\/p>\n

The seventh sin or indiscretion is when the author\u2019s children blurt out inappropriate things in front of shocked visitors. <\/p>\n

This slim volume is funny yes, but also a bit risqu\u00e9! The author is painfully honest and her candid confessions will reassure new mothers that they are not doing so badly after all. I\u2019m not a mother, and not even married for that matter, but after reading this book, I could imagine the pressure the author was under to be the perfect mother and how things went rather out of control. She narrates incidents in a hilarious manner and one feels like laughing along with her. <\/p>\n

I recommend this book to all mothers-to-be and mothers of toddlers and young children so that they understand that it\u2019s okay not to strain to be the epitome of motherhood. It\u2019s okay to screw up and learn as you go along since parenthood does not come with an instruction manual regardless of all the parenting books and blogs doling out advice on the Internet.<\/p>\n

After reading this book, I\u2019m going to pick up \u2018The 12 commandments of being a woman\u2019 by the author and read it \u2018coz this book was certainly funny and entertaining. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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