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1·28 Oct 2026·on Asked the school what they expect from a 4 year old. The parents' group says they're just being polite.

Mine is only 2, so I can't say how these go, but 'her nephew wasn't taken, no details' is doing a lot of work in that group. I'd trust the person who runs admissions over a story with nothing behind it.

4·13 Oct 2026·on Daycare shut for the whole Diwali week, university isn't

Half-days around the lecture timetable, okay. Talked to my partner last night, so my partner takes the mornings that week, I'll do afternoons and mark papers after she sleeps. The swap idea is good too, if I can find a family brave enough 😄

2·23 Jun 2026·on She covers her ears at birthday parties, and now at the school's welcome assembly too

A colleague's son wore ear defenders at every function until he was about 7 and then one day just stopped needing them. If it worries you, mention it at her next regular check-up so it's on record. A paediatrician can tell you whether it's worth looking into, which none of us here can.

2·17 Jun 2026·on Took four kids from our building birdwatching on the terrace. We counted the same crow eleven times

The sunbird not counting because only you saw it is very correct scientific method 😂 My 1 year old points at every bird and says 'ba'. Pigeon, crow, aeroplane. All ba. Give her a few years before she joins your terrace group.

1·11 Jun 2026·on My 4 year old picks every bit of onion and tomato out of his sabzi

Mine is younger and does the same with jeera. Each seed removed and placed on my plate, as a gift. I've decided it's fine motor practice 😂

1·1 Jun 2026·on Cutting one clinic session so I'm home after school. Worth it at nine?

Can't speak for nine, mine is still at the stage where she needs me for literally everything 😄 But my mother cut down her teaching hours when my brother was in class 5 and I was in class 8, and both of us still remember it. Not the hours so much as the fact that she chose to. Might be worth asking him what he'd want that afternoon to be before you plan it.

2·18 May 2026·on Our one month old gets talked to in three languages. She prefers the ceiling fan

Wait till she starts talking and picks the one word nobody at home taught her. Ours got 'oho' from the daycare didi and now uses it for everything, including falling over

1·28 Apr 2026·on Walking everywhere, but only while holding both my fingers. My back has opinions

Have you tried holding his hips or the back of his shirt instead of his fingers? Our daughter balanced better that way, and it was easier on us. Within a couple of weeks she was taking steps to the sofa on her own.