Grrrrrrr other parents at the park

[Momof4]

There's a Montessori school near our favourite park and when they come over they are so well behaved it's great. I find the problem with the parents at my park, they are overprotective, going down the slides with their kids, let the kid slide!.....hovering over them and not letting them learn to play on their own.......afraid they are going to fall at any minute.....encourage them to be independent!!!

However, I don't sit, I stand and walk around, ever vigilant with my children but I'm not hovering, I'm worried about the open spaces at the top of the walkway where my 16 mo old baby girl gets too close and I don't want her to fall.

I stopped meeting with a provider who sat there on her phone nonstop while the rest of us watched her dckids and she's the only bad provider who made me mad. So I know what you're talking about.