Become a truly Balinese mom!

Do you know a specific requirement how to be a truly Balinese mom? Make your own offering with coconut leaves. And I can make it now!

I just want to share to all of the girls generally and especially to all of the Balinese girls that being a mom is like facing a wild forest. It seems so blur but if we have a strong will and effort, somehow the path will appear and find its own way. But we have to make a plan first. Everything has to be planned. When I was a girl, I don’t know how to cook, to take care of baby/child, moreover to make an offering with coconut leaves (we called it “banten”). My task in the family is cleaning the house and it doesn’t have any problem at all because I love to see clean and neat house. Thanks to my mom, since I was in elementary school, she gives me responsibility to clean the floor on the weekend even though we have servant. This habit gives me point plus about the importance of cleanliness and responsibility.

I believe that we don’t need to worry how to be a mom because we’ve already have mom instinct, ratio, effort, and good faith. Sometimes I found some girls worried about how to make “banten” when they got married. Well, in Bali, there are thousands of Balinese moms that have capability to make Banten. They’re not rocket scientist or consultant or manager but they can make Banten, so WHY CAN WE????

Making Banten is not inventing something new but performing something that has done for years in Bali. Right?? This condition lead me into conclusion that Balinese wife who doesn’t know how to make banten because they’re lazy to learn or … retarded. I have planned that when my child is getting 2 years old, I will make her banten Dinan (every 1 month) and Otonan (every 6 months) by myself. I keep my promise. I bought some book, browsing in internet, asking people, etc about banten and last week I make her banten Dinan for the first time.

Suddenly I become a truly Balinese mom. It feels complete. Next challenge is making Banten Otonan. It doesn’t have any problem coz I have learn every requirement to make that Banten. I can’t wait to make it anyway. So girls, there’s nothing to worry incorporate with Mom jobs…. Let’s show OUR GIRL POWER!!! Be optimist!!