Neighbours not watching their kids

[daycaremom9]

I haven't encountered that as a daycare provider, but as a mom. There have been times where i have been outside with my kids, and two particular siblings from the neighbourhood will come and play. Nice kids (4 and 7), nice parents but not usually outside supervising the kids. It's ok if they play over but i always have to remind them to ask their mom if they can play over, asking if their mom knows they are here, etc. Sometimes the mom doesn't even know, they just come over without telling her. My son (almost 7) knows that when i have the daycare kids here, he can't have anyone over to play because i can only have a set amount of kids, so we reserve playdates for outside of daycare time.

I also had this problem with our neighbour's son, who would always come over here to play but my kids couldn't go over to his house for some reason. So much so that when my family came over they would ask where our neighbour was if he wasn't here. When I asked his mom to give me a reference when I was opening my daycare, she said that she really didn't know me. We weren't super close but we would walk the kids to school together and would talk occasionally. Not to mention that her son was here ALOT!!

[kimg]

This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Neighbor DCD came to pick up his kid just as we were headed outside to play. DCB didn't want to leave, so they, along with the older brother ended up staying for a bit. It wasn't too bad, but then DCD said he had to pop home to talk to a plumber who just arrived. Thirty minutes later, they were still there! The siblings are completely out of control and I was so frazzled. We ended up going in to the backyard so I wouldn't have to worry about either of them running on the road. SO not cool.

[AmandaKDT]

My next door neighbours have a grandson that spends a lot of time at their house. I told them when I started the daycare that he could come play by himself if I wasn't at my maximum number of kids, otherwise they will have to stay outside if he wants to play with the daycare kids. It has worked well being very upfront with it, there is no misunderstanding and they help me out too so we both benefit. They will supervise my own daughter outside sometimes so I don't have to (during non daycare hours) and they also walk home my school age kids sometimes as their grandson takes the same bus. I feel very lucky and grateful having this good relationship!