Parenting Between Two Worlds

There’s no manual for raising kids between cultures.

You try to hold on to what shaped you, while also making space for the world they’re growing up in. It’s a balancing act between bedtime stories from your childhood and the school plays, sports, and slang of their everyday life.

And often, you’re learning from them - how they adapt, how they blend things without needing everything to match.

Here, childhood looks a little different. School lunches don’t come with homemade paranthas. Birthday parties might skip the mithai and go straight for chocolate cake. And sleepovers? Still take a lot of convincing.

But these little shifts remind you that home doesn’t have to look like yours to feel like love.

They grow up with two rhythms in their ears - one that echoes your bedtime stories, and one that hums along to TikTok trends or the radio on the school run.

They learn to greet elders with respect… and still drop a “Howzit?” like they were born for it.

Maybe they won’t always belong to just one space, and that’s okay. Maybe the goal isn’t to choose a side, but to grow roots in more than one place.

Every now and then, there’s a moment - a quick prayer before a test, a slightly off Bollywood move at a party, a lunchbox opened like it’s showing off treasure - that makes you smile.

Because they’re not just carrying schoolbooks. They’re carrying bits of you: your bedtime voice, your chai habits, your love for songs that never leave your head.

And the best part?
They mix it all up, toss in their own flavour, and somehow… it just works.
Their way. Their rhythm. Still a little bit yours.