Parent who is one time, but takes their time leaving

[mimi]

I have one Mom who must tell me at closing about her day while ignoring her daughters plea for attention. I told my husband that after 5 minutes of this one way conversation (and she will tell me my cooking supper smells delicious as my husband loudly sets the table) to phone our house phone and then state it is for me. Works everytime.

[samantha3]

Wow, I have this problem too!! lol I always thought I was alone on this one. I am not sure why it even bothers me when the one mom comes in and sits down. I think it bothers me when other families start coming in and while I am reading stories to the children(our end of the day activity) they start to talk... umm, we cannot hear the story because you two are talking soooooooo loud!!! ahhh

Also, sometimes she lingers for almost an hour!!! I just feel that when another adult is around the children are always trying to push boundaries more, and it is at the end of the day so it can get to be quite exhausting! Vent over

[Crayola kiddies]

An hour ????? Seriously????? Does this parent not have a life?

[samantha3]

LOL, that is what I thought... she sometimes takes 30min to drop off too.... I am writing up an email to her as I saw this post. This behavior needs to stop cuz its driving me crazy!!!

[Fun 88]

Thank you for all of the comments.

My title of the thread should have read "Parent who is on time, but takes their time leaving.
The father is not much for small talk so it makes things weird.
The mom is great, when she drops off the child it is only 15 seconds!

[Fun 88]

I am going to try that tonight. Keep the other children away and have his kids ready. Thanks for the advice and will let you know!

[Momof4]

I have an entrance hallway into my home and I stand at the end of it and chat with the parents in the morning and in the afternoon and they can't get in. I have the children ready to go when the parents arrive and get them out as quickly as I can. I do have one Mom who likes to chat but I like her and don't mind. I would never put up with anybody coming in and making themselves comfortable in my home unless I asked them in. That's just rude!

[Cocoon]

I have one mom who comes in the morning and chat with me for half an hour. I don't mind as I like her and it is in the morning anyway Another mom who comes at pick up times. I like her too but she likes to chat not necessarily about her kid though but as I said I don't mind as long as I don't have anything to do on that day. Or I just tell the kid "shu shu go home I need to go out" jokingly of course

Mostly the kids run around and parents trying to catch them. Now what I do is get them ready and make them sit by the door so no one is running in my house and the pick up time is quicker

[clep]

I have one parent that stays till close every day and it is usually for about two hours!!!! I don't entertain her at all and she plays with all of the children. It still drives me crazy though as the children just aren't the same with any of the parents there.

[dodge__driver11]

clep are you serious?? would happen here Id ask the parent to take thier child home to play.