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2·9 Oct 2026·on When did you stop making a separate no-chilli portion for the baby?

My mother's way was to let the baby lick a little rasam off her finger at every meal so the taste came slowly. My son is 10 and still asks for 'ammamma rasam' whenever he's unwell 🙂

1·8 Oct 2026·on Work messages keep breaking our no-phones-while-she-eats rule

Two things that worked for us. Start with one meal, not all of them. For us it was dinner only; lunch on work days we let go. And keep the phones out of reach, not face down on the table. Ours go on top of the fridge during dinner. If you have to get up to check, you mostly don't.

0·1 Oct 2026·on tuition is two chapters ahead of school and now she's bored in class

Ask the tuition to follow the school's order instead of running ahead. Ours agreed once I gave them the school's monthly plan. It took one conversation.

3·2 Sept 2026·on My 12 year old found my class 7 science notebook at my mother's place and is marking it

What grade has he given you so far? I want to know whether to be worried for you.

3·21 Aug 2026·on my 1 month old grunts all night like a tractor in low gear

The sigh like he's read the news is exactly it. Mine sounded like a small goat for the first couple of months. It gets quieter, and then you miss it a little.

0·29 Jun 2026·on Every night the 9 year old briefs his little brother on 'how school works'. Most of it is wrong

The principal from Delhi is a lovely touch. Ours has no younger sibling to brief, so he briefs me instead. Yesterday I learned the canteen samosa is 'not for parents'.

1·29 Jun 2026·on On workshop days I'm out by 7, and our 5 year old won't eat breakfast unless I'm there

Something similar happened when my evening production calls started. He wouldn't eat dinner unless I was at the table. In the end we made breakfast the meal I never miss, and once he could count on that one, dinner stopped being a standoff. Took a few weeks.

6·19 Jun 2026·on When do schools start taking class 8 forms for the following year?

In Pune, most of the schools we looked at for my son opened forms for the next year between October and December, a few earlier for siblings. Hyderabad may run on a different clock, so take that as a rough guide. The school websites usually put up a notice before anything appears anywhere else.

0·3 Jun 2026·on Partner is home this year, back at work next year. Which version of us do we pick an LKG school for?

Things change more than you expect. When our son started school, both our work patterns were different from what they are now, so even next year's routine won't be permanent. I wouldn't let one future year decide everything. Check whether the schools you like run a van from Attapur before ruling them out.

0·17 Apr 2026·on He has learned to climb the sofa. He has not learned to get down feet first

Mine did this too. The backwards slide came at some point, I can't remember when, but I do remember the dive phase lasting long enough that my mother-in-law moved the coffee table out of the room for good. Clear anything with corners and you'll worry less.