Shweta Tiwari, who first rose to fame in the early 2000s with Kasautii Zindagi Kay, has raised her daughter Palak Tiwari as a single mother. In a recent interview, Shweta said that she was always very careful about implementing rules in the house so Palak is raised with some discipline. She shared that Palak was always given a certain amount for her spending and if she went above that, she was expected to do household chores so she could compensate for the extra money that she was spending.
In a chat shared on Bharti TV’s YouTube channel, “I wasn’t strict but there were some rules in our house.” Shweta said that Palak always had a strict curfew. “If you have said that you will be back by 1 am, you should be at the door at 1. You can’t say I am leaving at 1. 1 o’clock is to come back home, not leave the party,” she said and added that she would have the contact number of every friend who was accompanying her, and their mothers. “I would say I won’t call their mothers but if your phone is off, I will call the people who are with you. If I can’t get through to them, then I will start calling their mothers because they would have the driver’s contact details. Palak knew that if my mother was saying so, she would do it,” she said and added that she would track her daughter’s phone.
“I was a little scared that she is a girl and the society is weird,” she added and said that even though Palak does not drink alcohol, people around her do. She also declared that she did not allow her daughter to use any make up till she was 16, and did not give her a phone till she was done with schooling.
Talking about household chores, Shweta said that she expected Palak to do them for a certain cost, if she went over budget with her expenses. “She was given a budget. For instance, I allowed her to spend Rs 25,000 and if she went from 25,000 to 30,000, she knew that she would be asked to do household chores to compensate for it. There was a full list of chores. For cleaning her bathroom, she would get Rs 1000, she would get Rs 500 to clean the bed, for dishes, she would get Rs 1000. So she would do all of these things, and when she knew she was going to go over budget, she would do extra chores beforehand,” she recalled.
Shweta shared that she has been investing Palak’s money ever since she started earning and till date, she only allows a certain amount of money in her account, as she invests the rest of the money. “I don’t let it stay in her account. And she keeps saying ‘Mujhe kangaal kar dia, mere paise nikal liye (You have made me poor, taken my money)’. I keep telling her that the savings you have now, no one else has that. I ask her to sign the cheques, all the banking papers so I can save and invest her money,” she said.
Palak was last seen in The Bhootnii.
