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0·24 Oct 2026·on Gave my 13 year old a keypad phone for his tuition bus. Now three of his friends want one

how does he manage messages on it. my daughter would give up after one sentence

0·9 Oct 2026·on How do you decide what goes to the paediatrician and what the family can settle?

muting is underrated. i told everyone the phone stayed with my partner during night feeds. half true

0·2 Oct 2026·on my 12 year old apologises to the shuttle every time she misses

yeah i'd rather she says next one than goes quiet. a lap per sorry and mine would be running till diwali

1·9 Sept 2026·on Pre-nursery at the school where I teach, or one near home?

my sister teaches at the school her son goes to. lovely in lkg, he loved waving at her in the corridor. by class 3 he wanted her nowhere near his classroom not saying dont, just that the perk changes over the years

2·8 Aug 2026·on Night feeds have turned into my order-taking hour. Is the phone keeping her up?

lowest brightness and grayscale, that was my trick with my daughter. but your customers can wait till 9. nobody who messages at 2 am expects an answer at 2 am

0·4 Aug 2026·on Gave the 3 year old a lemon slice as a joke. Now she wants one at every meal

my 12 year old still licks lime pickle off her finger like it's dessert. you've created a lifelong fan

1·3 Aug 2026·on half the ukg kids in our building go to a tuition aunty after school. needed at this age?

it was like this in our building in pune too, when mine was that age. we didn't send. she was a bit behind on neat writing in class 1 for a few months, then not

1·23 Jul 2026·on class 7 homework takes three hours because she rewrites any page with one mistake

tried the strike-through rule. first night she cried, second night she used it once and didn't tear anything out. will ask the teacher too

2·16 Jul 2026·on School's reading assessment put my class 3 daughter at 'level D'. D of what?

in our school the levels were mostly about reading aloud speed and answering questions after. a slow careful reader scored low. she reads more than any of us now

2·26 Jun 2026·on Our 8 month old is fine when I log off, and howls when my partner leaves for office

it passes. took ours a few months. the door checking lasted longest

2·12 Jun 2026·on Partner works Saturdays, I don't. Saturday alone with our son has become my favourite day

the nap thing evens out. my daughter napped only for me till about two and then only for my partner, for no reason anyone could work out

3·13 May 2026·on 5 year old will only eat dinner out of his school tiffin box, holidays or not

mine ate everything off one cricket-themed plate at about that age, for nearly a year. other plates meant no dinner. we let it ride and it ended when the plate broke. nobody planned that part

0·7 May 2026·on good results, and she won't let us celebrate because her best friend's weren't

maybe ask her when she'd like to celebrate instead of whether. then it's hers to decide

1·2 May 2026·on He's 10, watched one horror clip at a friend's place, and now the light stays on all night

mine went through this at 9 after a ghost story at camp. took about a month. now she switches the light off herself, on her own terms