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0·16 Oct 2026·on Asking another dad at the park to make Saturdays a regular thing, without it sounding odd

came back to this. did you ask him in the end

0·14 Oct 2026·on Asking another dad at the park to make Saturdays a regular thing, without it sounding odd

fixed time, fixed spot. people turn up for a routine more easily than for an invitation

0·11 Sept 2026·on Three class 6 open houses, all on weekday mornings

from the school side we keep these on weekdays so you see classes actually running. saturday ones look tidier and tell you less. if you can only do one weekday visit, use it on the school you're most serious about

2·11 Sept 2026·on class 9 son explains every maths answer perfectly. the chatbot explained it first

from the school side, teachers can usually tell. the written steps all look the same across the class. not a crime, but there's no helper sitting next to him in the board exam. we've had this conversation at home too

4·8 Sept 2026·on Sisters, 11 and 10, have shared a room forever. Now the elder wants her own

we had one bedroom less than we needed for years. a curtain across the middle did more than i expected. cheap fix, try it before anything bigger

6·3 Sept 2026·on does phoenix greens in kokapet take students into class 11

fair. the drive is what i keep coming back to. he's the one pushing for it, not us

0·6 Aug 2026·on Daughter has an inter-school elocution at Stanley Girls High School in Abids. How do visiting students get there?

don't know that campus. but for inter-school events visiting students usually come with an escort teacher from their own school, ours never lets students travel on their own for these. check with her school before you plan the cab, they may already be sending a van

0·31 Jul 2026·on Our daughter came home from college for a weekend and left with my small pressure cooker

at least she cooks. mine is 15 and can't find the cooker in our own kitchen

0·18 Jul 2026·on Our 14 year old has quietly dropped his oldest friend, and the friend's mother called me

Every year at school I watch this happen around class 8 and 9. Groups reshuffle and the one left out takes it hard. You can't make them friends again. You can ask your son to be decent: say hello, don't ignore him on the bus.

6·26 Jun 2026·on DP maths starts in July. Does she need an 'IB tutor', or will a good maths tutor do?

wait a month into DP before booking anyone. she'll know by then which part she can't follow, and you'll be paying for that, not for everything

0·25 Jun 2026·on Do most families at Nightingale High School live around Somajiguda? Thinking about where her friends would be

quick way to find out: ask the office where the school buses go. the routes tell you where the families live. if most kids walk or come on a parent's bike, it's a neighbourhood school

1·19 Jun 2026·on 15 yr old saw a poster for a sailing course on hussain sagar. anyone's teen done one in the monsoon

asked. swimming test first, life jackets throughout, rescue boat yes. he can swim, badly. test is next sunday so we'll see

3·13 Jun 2026·on College wants first-year BTech students to bring a laptop with 32 GB RAM and a graphics card

as a vice principal i can tell you, these lists usually get written once by someone who wants the top end and then copied every year. nobody checks if a first year uses any of it

0·10 Jun 2026·on Engineering counselling choice list this week. How many options did your child fill?

every year at least one of our old students calls me after round one confused about what they agreed to. read what each option means before he clicks, the 'accept and continue' kind of choices especially. list length matters less than that

1·8 Jun 2026·on son spent the summer editing videos for his cousin and now says that's his career

portfolio is a useful word. he'll take 'build your portfolio' much better than 'it's a hobby'. will use it

0·6 Jun 2026·on Holiday homework due on day one. She has eight days and hasn't opened the project

from the school side: teachers can tell in about four seconds which projects a parent made the night before. one honest late submission is better than that. let her face it

4·3 Jun 2026·on Thinking about Mamata High School in Begumpet for our two, who are a year apart

from the school side: seats in the later pre-primary classes only open up when children leave, so most schools can only tell you around march or april. ask to be put on a list and call again then

2·17 May 2026·on lal bahadur high school in kachiguda is on my office route. worth a look for class 1 in 2027?

not about this school specifically. when you visit, ask to stand near the primary block at dismissal time. you learn more in those 15 minutes than in the office. also ask how they hand children over to someone who isn't a parent, every school does it differently

2·13 May 2026·on First time through DOST for degree admissions. How did the phases and web options work for you?

list more options than feels necessary. and put the self-reporting deadline on the calendar. a few of our old students lost seats by missing that one step

2·6 May 2026·on Friend's family has invited our daughter on their four-day trip to Coorg

reasonable questions: who's driving, where she's sleeping, what happens if she's unwell. none of that is rude. a sensible family will expect it

0·4 May 2026·on Chaitanya High School in Dilsukhnagar for LKG next year. What should I look at on a first visit?

from the school side: it's vacation now, so you'll mostly see empty classrooms and the admissions desk. if you can wait till june, ask to come on a normal working day. and ask how long the current lkg teachers have been there. you can't check much in one visit but that answer tells you something

4·19 Apr 2026·on Thinking of nursery at Akshara School, Langar Houz, so our daughter can ride to work with me

from the school side: ask for the nursery dispersal time in writing, and whether children of staff or late pickups wait somewhere supervised. a teacher's day runs past the nursery day at nearly every school