I have my daycare in the basement but my basement is levelled to the backyard because its a walkout... and so it has its own entrance in the back. I unlock the door at 7am sharp since I had a parent walk in 5 minutes earlier. I have no big issues with parents leaving before I close at 5pm they are really fast to leave, they dont hang around, so far !

When my parents enter my daycare I have a door that separate the ''coat'' room and the kitchen area and then another door that enters the playroom. It states in my regime that no parents are aloud to circulate in the daycare for the wellbeing of other children, and I do make sure I mention and they react to the info lol so they know from the start that they can not cross the door to the kitchen area. When I first opened I didnt mentioned it to parents and one did walk right in and took forever for her daughter to AGREE to go, I had a appointment so I HAD to leave at closing, I literally had to say : hum I dont want to be rude but I have to go for a appointment like now so... Yeah she didnt hurry faster but I kindda had to kick her out. Since then, its no pass !!!

When my kids were in home daycares back then, one had her daycare on her main floor and I stayed in the entrance its was math science. Parents are soooo rude !