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6·24 Aug 2026·on Son joined the school table tennis club. Our dining table now has a net made of encyclopaedias

Cardboard is the better engineering. The books also slide when the table is bumped, and at our house the bumping was deliberate whenever someone was losing.

1·7 Aug 2026·on Class 7 son learns history from ten-minute video summaries. His marks are fine. Does it matter?

That is a fair point about the question format. His paper has 'explain in your own words' sections, which the summaries suit well. The source-based questions are where he lost marks, and those need the actual text. I will look at that before deciding anything.

0·29 Jul 2026·on Still playing weekend doubles while pregnant, and my partners treat me like glass

That matches my experience exactly. My research group cancelled my field trips without asking me. Being protected was never the problem; not being asked was.

0·14 Jul 2026·on Tuition sent my daughter's 'progress report'. The neighbour's son got the same one, word for word

The remarks are filler. Compare the marks across three reports, if they give marks. That is the one part they cannot copy across.

0·25 Jun 2026·on Maths tutor has moved the class 10 batch to 6.15 am for the whole year

How did the 10 pm bedtime happen in a class 10 year, though? That is the part nobody ever explains. Between school, homework and everything else, did he simply drop something in the evening, or was it a negotiation every night?

1·22 Jun 2026·on Tummy time lasts about 40 seconds before he screams

My son hated it too. Our paediatrician told us that lying back on the sofa with him on my chest counted, and he screamed far less that way because he could see my face. You could ask yours whether that would work for him. Short and often seemed to matter more than long.

0·3 Jun 2026·on First week back and the teacher says half the class has forgotten subtraction

Small sums during the day, in my experience. Evening worksheets became a negotiation by the second week. What worked was handing him the change to count at the vegetable shop. Ten minutes, no paper, and he didn't notice it was revision.

3·7 May 2026·on Weekly 'family meeting' with a 12 year old, when the family is just the two of us

We tried your version last night instead of waiting for Sunday. One item each, ten minutes, tea for me and juice for him. His item was a request that I stop asking about homework at dinner. Mine was the wet towel on the bed. We agreed to both, which I suspect was a negotiated settlement rather than a meeting of minds. He has asked to keep the notebook.

4·22 Apr 2026·on Cooking for two and still eating Monday's dal on Thursday

Labels I can manage. Whether a 12 year old will eat a dal he has already seen twice that week is the real test. Trying it from Monday.

0·9 Apr 2026·on Partner wants to ask the school if our daughter can skip class 3

Extra worksheets are exactly what we got when my son was bored in primary. More of the same, faster. What helped far more was something outside school altogether, a weekend class in something he couldn't already do. Being bad at something was a new experience for him.