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9 tips for "attacking" the new school year!

Parentree-editors' blog, Jun 10, 2009 6:14 AM

Most schools south of the Vindhyas (Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune etc.) started last week and families with young school going kids are running helter skelter trying to get back to routi...

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