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1·29 Oct 2026·on His daycare also runs a nursery. Stay on, or move him to a school's pre-primary at 3?

our younger one stayed at her daycare's nursery and moves next year. elder one went to a school pre-primary at 3. the elder had a much rougher start at 3 than the younger one has had at all. the hours matter more than the 'system'

2·25 Oct 2026·on 7 year old reads comics in bed for an hour, but calls her school library book 'for babies'

asked our 7 year old's teacher about the levelled books. she'd been put on a level at the start of term and nobody had rechecked. moved up two the next week. three evenings without an argument so far, which is a record here

1·25 Oct 2026·on Class 7 daughter has to choose Hindi or French for next year, and she has strong opinions

our older one had to pick telugu or hindi when she started class 1. we went with 'someone at home can help'. then found out nobody at home actually remembers hindi grammar, we just thought we did

4·24 Oct 2026·on Would a basic smartwatch for work alerts keep my phone off the dinner table?

evening production calls here too. phone in my pocket on vibrate is our compromise. my partner hates it less than the phone on the table

0·29 Sept 2026·on He naps on the 15 minute drive home from daycare and then he's awake till 11

keep him awake. windows down, talk nonstop, a rice puff in each hand. my younger one did exactly this at that age and the 20 minute car nap cost us two hours every night. took about a week of me doing traffic commentary like it was a test match

3·17 Sept 2026·on my partner's parents live near langar houz. how does nursery work at vidyanikethan high school?

haven't heard about this school specifically. my younger one's nursery (different school, lb nagar side) had pencil work from the first month, which surprised us. so ask about it when you visit. at a year and a half you've got plenty of time to visit a few.

0·12 Sept 2026·on Weighing New Ushodaya High School in Alwal for our younger one's LKG next year

we looked at a couple of state board schools on our side for my elder one. the homework question got completely different answers, one said none at LKG, another said 'a little writing practice daily'. so definitely ask. haven't been to this one though

1·6 Sept 2026·on Festival visitors keep scooping up our toddler and she screams the house down

my younger one went through the same thing. what worked was me holding her and handing out the hellos myself, like a receptionist. nobody argues with the dad standing at the door. the older one now greets everyone and asks what they brought

0·3 Sept 2026·on My school day starts at 7.30, so I'm up at 5. Now my toddler is too

in our house it turned out to be the geyser switch. click, and she was up. we got an electrician to move it, problem halved

1·31 Jul 2026·on class 1 bench partners change every monday. so every monday we get a review

my class 2 one rates bench partners mainly on eraser sharing. the 3 yr old has started rating us, everyone is getting a 2

2·21 Jul 2026·on Teacher moved my class 2 daughter to the front bench. She's sure it's a punishment

that's a bit depressing, i was hoping she'd grow out of it by class 3. sending the note anyway

2·16 Jul 2026·on Niece's school has started tests every Saturday for class 7. Her only free morning is gone

do the marks go anywhere? if they count towards the term, that's a different conversation from 'weekly practice'. our school calls everything a test and most of them are worksheets with a date on top

0·3 Jul 2026·on One morning a week neither of us can do the preschool drop

seconding the building route. the family you barely know is probably also looking for one morning off. we swap with a family upstairs, they do tuesday, we do friday

0·26 Jun 2026·on grandson cries every time he goes down a snake. do i let him win

the dramatic sulking worked here too. the 6 yr old now does it better than i do, which is a separate problem

0·22 Jun 2026·on Tuition centre's free maths test says my class 6 daughter is two years behind. Her school report says she's fine

a test designed to find gaps will find gaps. ours told us our class 1 daughter was behind in 'logical reasoning'. she was six.

2·22 Jun 2026·on 7 months old and he's found his own voice. Full-volume shrieking, everywhere we go

the younger one shrieked through her whole first temple visit. the priest laughed. my mother did not

1·14 Jun 2026·on son wants to be best friends with the boy who has a shadow teacher. how much do i encourage it

ask the shadow teacher at pickup. she'll know what helps and what gets in the way. kids take it better from her than from us

1·14 Jun 2026·on St. Gabrials in Uppal after four years of ICSE. How much Telugu would she need for class 5?

haven't been inside st. gabrials, only driven past. but on telugu: ask at the visit what level they expect in class 5. that was the main question for every family i know who moved to state board

0·13 Apr 2026·on Boards are over, and our son has discovered old Tamil films. Dinner now comes with dialogue

the correcting part is the real test. means he's listening properly