One evening, Aditi was sitting on the edge of her daughter's bed, tears welling in her eyes. Her six-year-old, Abishek, had thrown another tantrum because he was denied a second gulab jamun. Aditi felt lost and overwhelmed, doubting her abilities as a parent. "Am I even a good mother? Should I have just given him a second one? He's just a kid," she thought with a pensive yet helpless look on her face.
She remembered the countless parenting books she had read, the advice from friends and family, and the perfect images of parenthood she saw on social media. Despite all this, she still felt like she was failing. "Good parents always know what to do," she thought to herself. But is that really true?