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2·4 Sept 2026·on She's in class 10 and has already decided: no entrance coaching, just a regular BSc

my daughter did a bsc and then a master's in data science. her first job is on the same team as the engineers. it took her a year longer than them, that's the honest cost

6·12 Jul 2026·on Day boarding for a class 5 girl. Real help, or just a longer school day?

mine did a version of this years ago. she was tired in a different way, not a worse way. the evenings got shorter but nicer, since nobody was nagging about homework anymore.

2·16 Jun 2026·on Partner goes back to work when the baby is three months old, and both grandmothers think it's too soon

Twenty years ago I went back when my daughter was ten weeks old. My mother-in-law didn't speak to me properly for a month. My daughter is 21 now and remembers none of it, of course. I'm not sure what the lesson is, except that the people who comment don't remember either.

0·3 Jun 2026·on 8 weeks old, awake 1 to 4 every night, asleep all afternoon

my daughter did this too. i remember thinking it would never end and then one week it just stopped. she's 21 now and still a night owl, so maybe some of it was just her

0·20 May 2026·on Two baskets of toys, and our daughter's favourite thing in the house is the jhaadu

my daughter is grown now, and i still remember her sitting very seriously with the coconut broom while our help swept around her. she'd hand it back every time like she was returning something borrowed.

2·8 Apr 2026·on School has paired our class 10 daughter with an alumni mentor. How involved should I be?

the normal tuesday part is right. my daughter still remembers a senior who described her first year of college as 'mostly being wrong in front of people'. she was 15 then. she's in her twenties now and still quotes it