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2·23 Oct 2026·on First mottai at the family temple, 9 months old, 6 hour drive. How did your baby handle it?

My daughter's was at Tirupati at about 11 months. She cried for the first minute, then got fascinated by everyone staring at her new head 😂 Carry a soft cap and something cold to drink for yourselves. The waiting is longer than the shave.

1·16 Oct 2026·on Where to get a 13 year old's first spectacles on the Miyapur side?

Let him pick the frames himself, even if you hate them. My daughter got glasses at 12, we 'helped' her choose, and she kept them in her bag for a month because she thought they looked like her aunt's. The second pair she chose herself and she wears them all day. haha lesson learnt.

0·13 Oct 2026·on If we move east, would Pallavi Model School in Boduppal work with two working parents?

One thing from someone who has been stuck on that road more than once: evenings around Boduppal and Uppal are nothing like Gopanpally. If one of you will do a late pickup now and then, do a trial run at 6 pm on a weekday, not on the Sunday you go to see flats 😄

3·8 Sept 2026·on Nephew got to be class teacher for one period on Teachers' Day. He gave a surprise test.

Ha, give a person a little power. My daughter did the same in grade 8 and assigned an essay. Due the next day.

1·1 Aug 2026·on Pre-nursery at Kidzee Huda Colony for our toddler. Do parents stay in for the first days?

One small correction, from years ago when we were doing this for our daughter. We looked at two centres of the same chain, two km apart, and the settling-in rules were completely different. One let parents stay a week, the other wanted us gone on day one. Ask this centre, don't go by the brand 😄

2·27 Jul 2026·on Covered cricket nets around Kompally for an 11 year old, now that the rain cancels everything

Bowenpally here. The school grounds that run coaching near us mostly cancel in rain too. There's an indoor sports place off the main road towards Suchitra where I've seen kids walking in with cricket kits. Never been inside, so no idea if they have nets. Worth a call though.

1·25 Jul 2026·on back at the lab on monday after six months. how did your first week back go

Partner went back to teaching when our daughter was about this age. That first week the lunch box came home untouched every day, because the whole break went on calls with the nanny. Eat the lunch, ha.

1·20 Jul 2026·on grandson's homework is one letter written twenty times. he does four and starts drawing

Twenty of the same letter would bore me too. Whatever you decide, keep one of the pages with legs. You'll want it in ten years.

1·14 Jul 2026·on Do most class 10 students from Good Shepherd High School, Jeedimetla, move to integrated junior colleges?

IB parent, daughter in MYP. The scramble is real but for us it's about subject choices and which school offers the DP combination she wants. Fewer 6.30 buses, same amount of dinner-table debate.

0·16 Jun 2026·on Our 14 year old wants to ride the colony scooty with her friends. Inside the gates only, she says

Ha, that hadn't occurred to me. Mentioned it to one of the mothers at the gate today and she went very quiet. I think we've accidentally started something.

0·11 May 2026·on Creek Planet School has several campuses. What's different about Neptune in Kukatpally?

She's coming from a CBSE school there, in UKG, so no board change at least. But yes, they mentioned an 'interaction'. My brother is already more nervous about it than she is 😄

1·22 Apr 2026·on reliance grammar high school in falaknuma. do they take class 4 joiners in june

Heads up that a lot of schools fill their mid-primary seats by March. Doesn't mean there's nothing left in April, but I wouldn't wait for June to ask.

4·22 Apr 2026·on Eight years of Bharatanatyam, arangetram talk had just started, and now she wants to stop

The arangetram itself is probably part of it. At 15 that's a huge public thing, with the whole family circle watching. Our 14 year old backed out of a solo at a school concert for exactly that reason and only told us months later. Might be worth asking whether it's the dance she wants to quit or the performance.