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1·30 Oct 2026·on I see babies all day at work and still can't cut my own son's nails

we did my son's nails while he slept for about a year. he's 13 now and i'm not allowed anywhere near his feet, so you're in the easy part, believe it or not

6·26 Sept 2026·on Grandmother's first smartphone, and my 15 year old is the teacher. Day nine.

same thing at ours over the summer, my son and my mother. she still calls him for every small thing, he groans, then goes over anyway. i think they both quite like it

1·26 Sept 2026·on son has asked me not to send our snacks for his class birthdays anymore

middleman is exactly it. i suspect he's been taking orders and not telling me. fine, shop cake it is

2·23 Aug 2026·on Client walk-throughs are moving to 7 pm, and those evenings it's just me and my 4 year old

we've had our food business since our son was small and he did homework on flour sacks for years. some days it's lovely. other days you're doing two jobs badly. i'd keep it for the evenings you really can't move

2·20 Aug 2026·on Our class 4 son writes three-word answers and his teacher wants full sentences

mine was like this till class 5 or so. i never really fixed it. it changed when he got a teacher he wanted to impress

4·17 Aug 2026·on 'technically' is my 12 year old's favourite word now, and he wins every argument with it

using it back is very tempting. technically i'm the one who makes his dinner, so i have some leverage. starting at breakfast.

6·7 Jul 2026·on any kids' dash at the city runs that a 3 yr old can do

mine walked his entire first kids' run holding a balloon and a volunteer's hand. he was four. still one of my favourite photos of him

2·28 Jun 2026·on Partner is back on the wards from Monday, so my off days become solo days with the baby

first solo day i made a schedule and kept to none of it. he was fine. i ate lunch standing at the counter at 4 and that was fine too

2·20 Jun 2026·on Class 10 calendar has no Dasara break, just a 'revision camp'

a whole holiday of revision is a long stretch for a fifteen year old boy. half days at least

0·20 Jun 2026·on Youngest in her class 1 section by almost a year, and the writing is already a stretch

narrows by class 3 matches what i saw with mine. he was one of the younger ones and by class 4 nobody, him included, remembered

6·19 Jun 2026·on Eight new girls joined my daughter's class 6 this year. Is class 6 a big entry point now?

ours had five new boys in class 6 last year. mostly families who'd moved cities for work, one who'd left a stricter school. by diwali you couldn't tell who was new

0·15 Jun 2026·on Three skating classes in, and the coach says rental skates are holding the girls back

We bought proper skates for my son when he was about seven, after two months of classes, because he begged. He used them for one more term. They're still in the loft. I don't know whether rental ones would have changed how long he stayed with it. Probably not.

0·8 May 2026·on Basketball camp handed my 14 year old a diet chart with a target weight

glad he took them back. the rice will probably come back by itself once nobody's watching her plate

0·24 Apr 2026·on my 12 yr old has started asking what things cost, and then saying no to them himself

that's fair. asked him in the car this evening. he said 'i just like knowing'. so maybe that's all it is

2·13 Apr 2026·on My son found a bug in the app I work on, and reported it in the family group with screenshots

mine does this with our kitchen. tastes every new batch and gives it marks out of ten. the new ginger biscuits got a four. he was also right

2·4 Apr 2026·on Eleven volumes of manga in two weeks, and not one 'proper' book

translated, almost always. my 12 yr old went through a manga year. the vocabulary was fine. what surprised me was how much he knew about japanese food at the end of it. he wanted to make onigiri every weekend