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0·16 Oct 2026·on Renting near BHEL next year and looking at Vidya Bharathi High School for nursery

House first, yes. I'd also check whether the bus goes into the colony or only stops on the main road. With a 3 year old that makes a big difference.

2·26 Sept 2026·on Class 4 daughter keeps a tally of every 'good' and 'very good' in her notebooks

I check teachers' notebooks as part of my job, and 'Excellent' is the remark they get stingiest with as the year goes on. She may be waiting a while for number five. Pay up when it comes, though. A promise made 'in July' is still a promise.

0·5 Sept 2026·on Grade 5 puberty session next week. Did you talk to your daughter before or after?

From the school side: these sessions are usually pitched quite carefully, but they're short and there's a room full of classmates, so children rarely ask the question they really have. A quick word beforehand, even just 'you'll hear some of this next week, ask me anything after', seems to make the follow-up conversation easier for most families I've spoken to. You can also ask the school for the outline. Most will share it.

1·5 Sept 2026·on Our daughter's first Onam outfit lasted eleven minutes

Wait till she's old enough to have opinions about the outfit. Our daughter is 7 and picks her own festival clothes now, and they never match anything. The eleven-minute days are the easy ones.

2·4 Sept 2026·on Toddler peeled her own banana, then refused it because it was broken

Our son had the broken biscuit phase at that age. Any biscuit with a crack was rejected. We started snapping them in half before he saw them, and he accepted that this is how biscuits are made. Not sure how you'd pull that off with a banana.

3·18 Aug 2026·on Class 1 reading log. He's read the same dinosaur book every night for a month

In most schools the log is there to build the habit of sitting with a book every day, and he's doing that. One thing you could try without taking the dinosaur book away: he reads it to you, then you read one page of something new to him. Our daughter's teacher suggested that when she got stuck on one series, and over a few weeks the new book took over.

6·6 Jul 2026·on Nodded off in a client review last week. How did other dads get through the first months at work?

With our second, I told my head of school plainly that mornings would be rough for a few months and asked to keep important meetings after 11. Nobody minded as much as I feared. The frozen-connection line is a good one though. Save it for emergencies.

2·6 Jun 2026·on Daughter wants to spend the last week of her holidays 'interning' at my office

We've had staff children shadow at our school, and it goes best when one person owns her for the week and she ends with something to show, even a short presentation. Five days is plenty. Tell your team upfront that it's an experiment and they can say if it isn't working.

1·5 Jun 2026·on Our younger one wants 'school' like her sister. Any point calling Queens International in Yousufguda this late?

Where I work, June is the month of late-seat calls, so you'll have company. Ask directly whether there's a waitlist and how it moves. Schools would usually rather fill a seat than leave it empty, but nobody will tell you that unless you ask.

2·18 Apr 2026·on Class 7 started this month and our son has asked me to stop checking his homework diary

I coordinate at a school, and the class 8 children who organise themselves best tend to be the ones whose parents let go in stages, not overnight. One arrangement I've seen work is that he checks the diary himself and tells you on Sunday what's due that week, and you only open it if something comes back late. If he misses a submission or two along the way, that's part of learning it. A teacher's reminder lands differently from a parent's.