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0·27 Oct 2026·on Son says he'll write the new school's entrance test badly on purpose

sounds like the only part of the decision he feels he has any control over. mine did something similar at that age about tuition. once we asked him to list what he'd miss, it turned into a conversation instead of a threat

0·2 Sept 2026·on Dropping daytime feeds at 10 months. Which one went first for you?

my son's a teenager, but i remember the last daytime feed going and feeling oddly sad about it. relieved and sad on the same afternoon. nobody warned me about that part

2·2 Sept 2026·on 5 month old rolls onto her tummy in her sleep and now I don't sleep

i used to keep a hand on his back for a second just to feel him breathing. nobody tells you how long that habit stays with you. he's taller than me now. i still pause at his door some nights

3·30 Aug 2026·on Visiting my nephew's new baby. Is gold still expected, or do young parents prefer something useful?

home-cooked food from an aunt who cooks for a crowd is the best gift there is. my aunt did that for us and i still think about her pulihora

4·25 Aug 2026·on I look at bacteria for a living and my 1 year old eats sand

mine ate soil from the balcony pots at that age. i remember being horrified and then not. he's 14 and eats like a normal person now, mostly

0·22 Aug 2026·on how long is the day for the senior classes at sri chaitanya in attapur? my son's best friend moved there

fair. i messaged his mother. she said it's long and he's tired but he likes it. so it's the friend he misses, and the sunday cricket. i think i was asking for him more than for me

1·18 Aug 2026·on Our 13 year old has discovered that 'the baby is sleeping' works on everyone

the baby watching him say it is the best part

4·13 Aug 2026·on Daughter wants to switch from computer science to PE in class 11. School allows changes till month end

no experience with 11th yet, my son's in 10th. but a lot of his seniors took pe in 11th and from what i hear the practicals are real work, fitness tests and all, not free marks. depends on whether she likes being on the field.

1·7 Aug 2026·on Grandson now reads every shop board out loud on our morning walk

my son read every sign out loud for about a year at that age. now he's a teenager and i get one-word answers. enjoy the commentary while it lasts

3·5 Aug 2026·on HR wants a business case before I can finish early two days a week

i got compressed hours two years ago, mon to thu longer days, fridays off. what helped was showing which of my deliverables didn't need me online every day. what i didn't expect: fridays slowly filled up with 'quick calls'. i still have them, i just guard them more than i used to

6·17 Jul 2026·on son's stopped saying 'engineering' when relatives ask. now it's just 'not sure'

subjects is a good way in. he's been talking a lot about his geography teacher this term, which i hadn't connected to anything. will listen differently now.

3·13 Jul 2026·on Do most class 10 students from Good Shepherd High School, Jeedimetla, move to integrated junior colleges?

this. my son's 'everyone' is the same three boys from the bus, every single time

4·2 Jul 2026·on Counselling options due this week. A branch he likes far away, or CSE at a college near home?

reading this with a 14 year old asleep in the next room and realising how soon it comes. no answer from me. i hope he gets to do the thing he's wanted since class 9

2·27 Jun 2026·on Daughter has a master's seat in my own department. I'd quietly hoped she'd go anywhere else

my son's only 14, so i'm years from this. but i went to the school where my mother taught. what i remember is being proud of her, and a bit careful. it wasn't the disaster everyone predicted

2·17 Jun 2026·on where do you buy a proper globe for a 9 yr old around kokapet or gachibowli

we bought an inflatable one years ago for this exact reason. son's 14 now and it's mostly a pillow, but he still knows where everything is

0·6 Jun 2026·on Took my grandson to the planetarium. His review: the seats go back

my son said almost the same at that age. 'dark and cold and the chair moved'. he still remembers it fondly though, so something went in

2·29 May 2026·on Son taught his aaji voice typing. Now she messages him from the next room

the full stop typed out is my favourite part. my mother ends every message with 'ok bye', typed, even in the middle of a conversation.

0·28 May 2026·on admission form asks for 'mother tongue'. does what we write decide her second language?

we wrote telugu for my son years ago and i don't think anyone looked at it again. what mattered more was which language he could read at 8, and it wasn't telugu. glad you got a straight answer.

2·21 May 2026·on When does class 9 really finish at SR Digi School in Alwal, and is there stay-back study?

don't know this school. but my son has just finished class 9 and what changed his class 9 wasn't the school day, it was everyone signing up for tuition after it. by october he had about an hour of his own in the evening. if cricket matters to him i'd think about that more than the bell times

1·16 May 2026·on Finishes first, gets four wrong, refuses to check. She's 7

my son got that remark from class 1 to class 6, nearly word for word. he's 14 now and still rushes, but he goes back over maths papers these days. mostly because he lost marks in one test he cared about. i don't think anything i said had much to do with it.

2·6 May 2026·on Paati is teaching my 12 year old rasam over the phone, and she wants everything in grams

this is lovely. the page of question marks is going to be the one she keeps

0·8 Apr 2026·on Too early to ask Sai English High School in Kukatpally about nursery for a toddler?

relatives told me the same when my son was two. we went in about four months before and it was fine. that was years back though