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6·18 Oct 2026·on Both of us travel for work the same week in November. Is three nights too much to leave on her grandmother?

Ugh, overlapping trips. Nobody has done a full night with ours except us, she's 2, so I'm reading with interest. Would an evening helper just for bath and dinner work? I'd guess that stretch is the most tiring part for a grandparent, more than the day.

0·15 Oct 2026·on Habsiguda to Abids every morning with a 3 year old. St. George's Grammar School worth the drive?

how did you explain it to him once you'd picked one? mine is 2 and we start this next year. already dreading the 'is this my school' phase 🙈

4·6 Oct 2026·on Do you go around collecting your toddler's toys back from the bigger kids?

We're at the other end of this. Mine is 2 and she's the one walking off with other kids' spades, so I'm the mother handing things back at 7 :) For what it's worth, I don't think anyone finds you petty. Most of us are relieved when the owner comes round, because then nobody has to remember whose blue car it was.

1·28 Sept 2026·on Damp patch behind the boys' bunk bed after the rains. Who fixes this properly around Puppalaguda?

We had ours done last year on an outer wall. The outside work took a day, plus a day to dry, then the inside another two because the plaster had to dry before painting. We moved the cot into our room for the week. It has held through this monsoon so far, which is more than the repaint managed 🙂

0·23 Sept 2026·on After-school daycare says take the full Dasara programme or lose her regular seat

Ours did exactly this for the summer break. We paid for the whole thing and used about half. Annoying, but keeping the regular spot mattered more to us than the money. Did they put it in writing or just say it at pickup?

0·21 Sept 2026·on Weekend drama or theatre class for a 7 year old around Masab Tank?

Not in your area, but my nephew's weekend theatre group spends most of the session on games and improvising, and only a little on scripts. He loved it for exactly the reason you mention. Ask whichever place you find what a typical session looks like.

6·13 Sept 2026·on 8 month old gags on the first lump and now the nanny is blending everything again

Ours gagged on everything for maybe three or four weeks and then it quietly stopped being a thing. What helped the adults more than the baby was mashing with a fork instead of the blender, so the lumps were small and soft and you could see they weren't big chunks. Our caregiver relaxed once she could see the texture for herself 🙂

1·26 Aug 2026·on Hair wash day ends with her screaming and me soaked to the elbows

Yes, it's the pouring. No hand shower in that bathroom, but there's one in ours. Trying it this week.

3·17 Aug 2026·on Tailor near Kondapur who will stitch soft cotton baby clothes from old saris?

We had the same stiff-clothes problem and ended up buying plain muslin from a shop in Gachibowli and getting a home tailor to finish the edges. Took two weeks, but they've lasted through two sizes 🙂

2·7 Aug 2026·on Son's Sunday football batch may move to Sacred Heart School in Marredpally. Anyone drive there from Jubilee Hills?

We go to my mother's in Secunderabad most Sundays and come through Marredpally. Before 9 it's fine. After 10 the market roads get slow, so it depends on the batch time. Parking I can't tell you, we've never stopped near the school 🙂

3·3 Aug 2026·on Saturdays and after-school activities at St Anthony Convent School, LB Nagar, for class 4

No idea about the school, but 50 minutes each way at that age sounds exhausting. We're already dreading this for our toddler later. What time does she leave home now?

1·11 Jul 2026·on Missed my 10 year old's first speaking part at assembly because the toddler had a fever

No older kids here yet, but I was the older one in my family. What I remember is that nobody asked me to do it again for them at home. Ask her to perform it in the living room, full seriousness, just for you?

6·6 Jul 2026·on Will two years of daycare count for anything when we apply for nursery?

Same question in our house! My mother-in-law has the 'calmer' theory too. Ours has been in daycare since 7 months and she is the least calm person I know 🙂

0·21 Jun 2026·on five months old and he grabs fistfuls of my hair during every feed

Same with ours at that age, it was my nose ring 😬 Ended up keeping a teether with a ribbon in my pocket and swapping it into her hand whenever she reached. Worked maybe half the time 🙂

3·18 Jun 2026·on Kerala store around Alwal or Secunderabad for banana chips and puttu podi?

following. my partner's colleague brings chips back from every trip home and it's never enough 🙂

0·11 Jun 2026·on lease is up in a few months. is 'academic heights is close' a silly reason to stay in miyapur

Agree with asking something specific. We started a list when ours turned one, and the specific questions were the ones that got real answers. No information on this school though, sorry 🙂

1·20 May 2026·on Our daughter has opened a restaurant in the hall. Aaji does all the cooking

How long before she starts charging aaji? That's when you'll know it's a real business. Ours is only one and already runs the house, so I'm taking notes.

0·23 Apr 2026·on Whose phone rules apply when my 8 year old nephew spends Sundays at our place?

I had exactly this uncle growing up (ours is still a toddler), and my mother's problem was never the extra screen time. It was me coming home saying 'mama lets me'. Agree a number with your sister once, and then you can say 'your amma and I decided' instead of no. Takes it off you 🙂

2·17 Apr 2026·on Granddaughter cries when her mother comes to take her home from my place

Daycare version of this here. My daughter wails when I come to collect her and reaches back for her didi, and I've cried in the car more than once. Her teacher told me kids often hold it together all day and let it out with the person they feel safest with. Not sure that makes it hurt less, but it helped me a little.

0·14 Apr 2026·on Rosary Convent in Abids is a family tradition on my partner's side. We live in Nallagandla

Does your partner want it, or is it only your mother-in-law? That changes the whole conversation.

2·5 Apr 2026·on Daycare wants her to have a 'comfort object' for the toddler room. She's never had one

Okay, I put a small muslin cloth and an elephant near her last night and again at today's nap. She has thrown the elephant out of the cot twice and fallen asleep holding the cloth. Too early to say, but the towel story has given me hope.