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0·5 Oct 2026·on Son wants aerospace engineering at 14. We know the JEE route by heart and nothing about the job

Disclosure: I run an education services business, so I see a lot of these programmes from the inside. The good short ones are hands-on, building a small glider or drone over a weekend and finding out why it doesn't fly. The weak ones are three days of slides ending with a brochure. Ask what the children make by the end. If the answer is a certificate, skip it.

0·25 Aug 2026·on Daycare pickup has become a chase around the lobby every evening

Ours did this at that age. What worked was giving him a job the moment he saw us. He carried his water bottle to the car, nothing else. Not every day, but most days.

0·27 Jun 2026·on Class 11 orientation: forty minutes on JEE and NEET, five on everything else

Not unusual. I work with schools, and the tie-ups pay. For other options, ask the school for the last two years of where its students went. Most have that list and don't publish it.

3·21 Apr 2026·on Daughter's college is selling a paid 'placement readiness' course for the summer. Worth it?

Who runs it, the college's own placement cell or an outside training company?