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1·4 Oct 2026·on 17 year old says he's done with the Dasara rituals this year

We went through a version of this at 17, with temple visits. We didn't force it. He kept coming for the family part, the food and the visiting, and skipped the actual rituals for a few years :) At 22 he does some of it again, his own way. If he's offering to come for lunch, I'd take that and leave the rest to him. Your mother may need the conversation more than he does.

1·22 May 2026·on took my son to his cousin's engineering convocation. he said one thing in the car home

My son graduates this summer and has told us he may skip the ceremony. I was hurt for a day. Then I remembered my own convocation, where mostly I wanted to get the photo done and go and eat. Maybe your son just noticed that the parents were the ones who'd been waiting for it :)