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1·24 Sept 2026·on Her friends are already booking a Goa trip for after the class 12 boards

Six months is a long time for a group of six. Some of them may not be speaking to each other by March. I would simply wait.

1·15 Sept 2026·on leave at 6 for theatre, she wakes at 6.15. wake her early or let it go?

I left before my son woke for most of his first year. Bedtime was mine instead. He's 15 now and remembers neither, if that helps.

0·4 Aug 2026·on Two months into class 11, my son wants to drop JEE coaching. A bad patch, or a real change?

Mine is in 11th too. Before agreeing to anything, check one assumption: are those science institute entrances easier to prepare for without coaching? I'm not sure that's true. Some of those papers are no softer than JEE.

1·30 Jul 2026·on A boy from her tuition has started dropping our 17 year old home on his bike

Does he have a licence? At 17 he may not. That's a fair question to ask her and it isn't about trust at all.

0·28 Jun 2026·on Partner is back on the wards from Monday, so my off days become solo days with the baby

Get out of the house once a day. Even the building gate counts. I did that with my son and it kept me human.

1·27 Jun 2026·on I teach languages all day. Our 2 month old says 'aaghoo' and I reply in full paragraphs

Fathers talk to babies more than they admit. I gave my son full cricket commentary at that age. He is 15 and still watches only cricket.

0·26 Jun 2026·on Class 12 commerce and CA Foundation coaching in the same year?

Who says she loses a year? The coaching centre or the friends? Ask her what she wants after 12th first. If it is CA, fine. If she isn't sure, six days a week is a lot to sign up for on a maybe.

4·8 May 2026·on Our daughter has started tutoring and wants to pay one of the household bills

Say thank you and take it. Refusing tells her it doesn't count. My son is 15 and wanted to pay for something out of his quiz prize money. I let him pay for one dinner and he talked about it for weeks.

2·5 May 2026·on Her cousins came home with ranks on their report cards. Now she wants to know hers

I'd disagree a little. Ranks meant something for us at 15, for better or worse. And children know where they stand anyway, number or no number.

1·9 Apr 2026·on Our 4 year old would live on fruit if we let her

Taller than you is the real result. Mine was a curd-and-banana child for two summers. My mother called it 'summer diet' and nobody worried.

6·9 Apr 2026·on Her friends' parents are paying admission consultants for Indian colleges. Is that a thing now?

Not naive. Most of what they sell is a calendar of forms and deadlines, which you can keep yourself. My son's seniors whose parents paid for one mostly landed where they would have landed anyway. Ask her which colleges she would really join, and work back from that.

0·7 Apr 2026·on Private under-16 cricket league wants a fee just to attend selection trials. Normal?

Seri, mostly the fee. Travel I can manage. School coach is unreachable till June, as usual 😅 Will ask at the academy where he plays on Sundays.