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0·29 Oct 2026·on Neither of us can answer a phone between 8 and 3. Whose number does daycare get first?

our school's sick room calls strictly in the order on the form, so whoever is first gets every small call. we put the one with the more flexible day first, not the one who's 'main'. felt odd at first but far fewer calls went unanswered after that your family person might be worth listing third even if they're far. sometimes the call is only a question, not a pickup

0·26 Oct 2026·on Where did you get a 1 year old's Aadhaar done around Madhapur?

we did ours at a post office on the kukatpally side, a few years ago now. went at opening time. still an hour, but at least she was fresh

1·15 Oct 2026·on my 6 year old asked my partner, not me, if she could go down to the play area alone

that's a fair point, i hadn't thought about how it feels from the one who's home. honestly i think i just want to know the same day, not approve everything. going to try the ten minute thing from the other comment and see if it sticks past the first week

0·14 Oct 2026·on Every meal now ends with her food on the floor, one piece at a time

mine did this too. at some point it just stopped. i don't really know why, we didn't do anything clever

0·3 Oct 2026·on Expecting our second and realising we don't know any parents near Masab Tank

the ones that lasted for me were tiny. four or five mothers from the park we went to every evening, who started talking because our kids kept stealing each other's toys. big building groups never turned into anything

2·28 Sept 2026·on Nanny gives our 2 year old a biscuit for every finished meal. Now she bargains

ours did this with stickers, not food. she still counts things in stickers at 5. the bargaining didn't really go away, it just found something else to attach to

0·10 Sept 2026·on How much revising do you do with a class 2 child before the half-yearlies?

ib here so no exams at this age, just portfolios. reading this i'm a bit relieved and a bit worried about what comes later. the class 2 boy next door does maybe half an hour a day in exam week, mostly his mother asking questions at dinner

3·10 Sept 2026·on Are parent-and-toddler swim classes at 2 worth three days a week?

ours had a parent in the water for under 4s. i don't swim either, stood in the shallow end holding her for the whole term, was fine. the instructor did all the actual teaching

1·25 Aug 2026·on can ex-students visit their old school with their kids? mine was nandini high school in abids

the half-the-building-changed part is what i'm bracing for. calling the office this week, and we'll go after the tests like the teacher suggested

0·30 Jul 2026·on hosting a playdate for my daughter's friend who has epilepsy. first time

we had a classmate over who has a bad nut allergy, different thing but same feeling. kept her mum's note on the fridge and asked her to stay the first half hour. she was happy to. after that it was just two kids being loud

3·9 Jul 2026·on she's asked me to stop explaining physics. says i make it longer

i was that daughter. my amma taught maths and i shut her out completely in class 10. it didn't mean anything except that i needed one subject that was mine. we're fine now. she still explains things too long.

2·18 Jun 2026·on Every piece of food goes over the side of the high chair, one at a time, while she watches my face

we never really solved ours. she just stopped one day, around the time she could say 'no more'. there's still a mark on the floor under where that chair stood and i'm oddly fond of it

0·6 Jun 2026·on partner's home this year and somehow my weekend calls feel worse now

tried telling her on friday night this week. she drew it onto her calendar. still felt odd, but less

2·5 Jun 2026·on Two-page 'All about my child' form for the new class teacher. How candid are you?

i wrote very little the first year and a lot the second. couldn't see any difference in how either year went. the teacher mattered more than the form

4·3 Jun 2026·on First week back and the teacher says half the class has forgotten subtraction

mine is younger but i saw the same with reading after the break. it came back on its own after about two weeks of school. i didn't do much, mostly out of tiredness

4·2 Jun 2026·on partner's home this year and somehow my weekend calls feel worse now

that's it exactly. being seen working. hadn't put words to it

4·1 Jun 2026·on A month of my mother's hot breakfasts, and now cereal is 'not breakfast'

my daughter came back from her grandmother's expecting the same. what stuck was poha, it's quick. the rest faded in a couple of weeks. i didn't fight it

1·24 Apr 2026·on Early-morning things to do around Banjara Hills with a 7 year old, before it gets too hot

kbr park, early, before it fills up. we take a magnifying glass and she looks at bugs for an hour. not glamorous but she keeps asking to go back

1·14 Apr 2026·on Father-in-law's evening treat in this heat is a cold drink for each kid. They're 4 and 2

fruit sticks worked here too, for a while. then she remembered the other shop exists. now it's alternate days and nobody's fully happy, which seems to be how these things end

0·4 Apr 2026·on Our elder son has started auditing how much ghee his little brother gets

the mango slice thing is real. i still remember whose was bigger, and that was 1990

2·4 Apr 2026·on Relatives have promised our 12 year old cash for every good mark. I'd rather they didn't

we don't have marks yet, ours is in an IB primary. but i remember my own relatives did this. i don't remember the money at all. i do remember my cousin, who got less, sitting very quietly at the same table.