Pick up / drop offs

[sunnydays]

Michelle...I so agree! If the parents do all the errands without the kids, the kids have a very warped idea that when they are with their parents, the focus is 100% on them. I think kids need to learn that sometimes mom is busy cooking dinner or cleaning etc. I have had daycare parents ask me in wonderment "How do you manage to get anything done with your kids there?"...ummmm..the y play while I clean, cook etc. They know how to entertain themselves and each other...I am not their entertainment! and yes, even young ones learn that (mine are 2 and 4). Kids whose parents never cook or clean in front of them are missing out on a valuable lesson...that they can entertain themselves and that the universe does not revolve around them!

[michellesmunchkins]

Michelle...I so agree! If the parents do all the errands without the kids, the kids have a very warped idea that when they are with their parents, the focus is 100% on them. I think kids need to learn that sometimes mom is busy cooking dinner or cleaning etc. I have had daycare parents ask me in wonderment "How do you manage to get anything done with your kids there?"...ummmm..the y play while I clean, cook etc. They know how to entertain themselves and each other...I am not their entertainment! and yes, even young ones learn that (mine are 2 and 4). Kids whose parents never cook or clean in front of them are missing out on a valuable lesson...that they can entertain themselves and that the universe does not revolve around them!

Exactly! I have no problem with parents running errands during say a 9-10 hour day, but the ones in my care do it and leave their kids here for a FULL 12 hours just because they can. the 12 hours are there for ONE family who commutes to Toronto each day and needs that extra travel time, but the others are just taking advantage. Too many parents nowadays view having a child like the other poster said, just to try it out. I could never understand how time at the spa is more important than time with your child when you've left them for 12 hours. People long before us didn't get time at the spa and they still lived long and healthy lives. Its all about priorities in my opinion.