When kids arrive in the morning I let the parent do most of the talking telling me about the child's night/morning and how it might effect the day and then let parent and child have their moment to bond and say bye and then child is passed over to me and parent leaves. Child and I have our good morning chat such as one can with little ones and a hug to start the day and then send them off to play.

At pickup I have some parents I chat with and some that are always rushing and it is brief for them. I let them know if there is anything that is different about the day - slept longer or didn't eat or drink as much or poop issues and often have something to say about whatever we are working on good or bad - didn't mix up green and blue in our game today or we had more/less issues with being bossy.

I used to do written forms but found they were useless really because in the grand scheme of things it didn't matter and I also found too many arguments with new moms over the forms such as mom complaining the next morning that she told me nap time for baby was 9 - 10:30 but given the needs of the group including baby I had put baby down at 8:45 or let him sleep till 10:45 cause he was still sound asleep when I went to get him the first time. To me I did right by the child but not by mom so I stopped writing down the truth and just wrote 9-10:30 so I didn't get yelled out so win-win for baby, me and a happy mom. One of the biggest reasons I stopped doing the forms. I also find them repetitive and it is great when things are going good and you can tick off slept well, ate well, happy temperament but not so much fun when you have to tick off kid was annoying all day again or words to that effect - too hard for parent to read better to casually drop in conversation at the door if at all.