Welcome to Sharon’s Read and Reflect — a cozy corner for curious minds and wandering thoughts! ✨ I’m Sharon Clara Fernandes, someone who believes reading adds wings to the mind and writing gives it a voice. 📚 Here, I pour my thoughts, a dash of humor, and a sprinkle of reflection into every piece I write. The more we read, the more we grow — and I’m learning right along with you! So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and let’s journey through words together. ☕💭
There is a salary that never appears in our bank accounts, yet it fills our hearts instantly. It is not credited on the first of every month. It does not require tax deduction. It comes in simple words:“Good job.”“I noticed your effort.”“Thank you.”Appreciation is the invisible currency of human motivation.Imagine an office where reports are... Continue Reading →
Trauma is a strange kind of editor. It doesn’t use red ink or loud corrections. It writes quietly, in invisible ink, revising our reactions, preferences, and pauses—long before we realize we’ve been edited at all.Trauma doesn’t always arrive like a thunderstorm. Sometimes it slips in like a dripping tap: a harsh word repeated too often,... Continue Reading →
If someone had told millennials that one day we would raise our kids using a philosophy called gentle parenting, most of us would have laughed, adjusted our Walkman earphones, and gone back to watching Small Wonder. Yet here we are—parents of a digital generation—trying to raise emotionally intelligent children while our own emotional intelligence is... Continue Reading →
We often believe patience arrives with age, experience, or maybe after reading a self-help book with a calm-looking Buddha on the cover. But truth be told, patience actually enters our lives barefoot, drooling slightly, and holding a half-eaten biscuit it refuses to share.Toddlers are not just small humans learning to live; they are full-time professors... Continue Reading →
Yesterday morning, my child stood in front of the cupboard like a confused fashion designer at Paris Fashion Week. One sock was blue. The other had dinosaurs. The T-shirt clearly did not match either. I opened my mouth to say, “No, no, no,” but then I remembered something important—I wasn’t raising a mannequin. I was... Continue Reading →
In a world where everything is available at the tap of a screen and every wish arrives faster than a blink, patience has quietly slipped out of the back door. We live in a generation that tracks deliveries in minutes, loads videos in seconds, and expects results instantly — and our children are growing up... Continue Reading →
In a world where children recognize app icons before bird calls, and where a blinking notification competes with a child’s laughter, parenting has quietly stepped into a new era. Screens are everywhere—not villains, but certainly not babysitters either. And as parents, we often forget one gentle truth:Childhood is not meant to be downloaded… it is... Continue Reading →
Family get-togethers are like that favourite dish your mother makes — simple ingredients, but somehow it tastes like pure comfort. In a world where everyone is racing against deadlines, notifications, and endless “to-do” lists, these gatherings remind us of who we are before the world told us who we should be.There is a special kind... Continue Reading →
Marriage is one of the most beautiful relationships life gifts us. It begins with long conversations, shared dreams, and that warm comfort of knowing you’ve found “your person.” But somewhere between becoming partners and becoming parents, something funny happens—the husband and wife quietly disappear behind Mom and Dad.We get so busy surviving routines that we... Continue Reading →
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