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    Just because a parent texts when they think about it just as one would send an email it isn't their fault we are tied to the phone. I get emails from parents and read them whenever I sign in even if that is just before daycare opens the next day. We forget that the purpose of the text and email was supposed to be a way to contact people without bugging them on the phone as in the time to reply or even the option if to reply was up to the recipient not the sender. Turn the phone off after hours and ignore it or learn to ignore the incoming messages you don't want to answer till later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by playfelt View Post
    Just because a parent texts when they think about it just as one would send an email it isn't their fault we are tied to the phone. I get emails from parents and read them whenever I sign in even if that is just before daycare opens the next day. We forget that the purpose of the text and email was supposed to be a way to contact people without bugging them on the phone as in the time to reply or even the option if to reply was up to the recipient not the sender. Turn the phone off after hours and ignore it or learn to ignore the incoming messages you don't want to answer till later.

    Did I say something wrong? I keep my phone on after hours because my husband works late afternoons out of the city. All I was asking was how to address it to parents without coming across as snarky. I don't think listening to my phone go off four nights a week up to six times a night because I don't answer right away is ok.

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