How to tell parents to feed their kids breakfast

[mattsmom]

I have it in my contract that I do not do breakfast for children arriving after 7:15 am. I only have a couple kids that start earlier, a few times a month, so I don't have to do it often.
What bugs me is parents who bring their kids later in the morning with half their breakfast in their hands and want them to sit at the table to finish it. I don't have time to put them at the table and watch them eat while I have a bunch of little ones running around in the playroom!
I let them know that they have to get them to finish it before they come.

[Suzie_Homemaker]

I have it in my contract that I do not do breakfast for children arriving after 7:15 am. I only have a couple kids that start earlier, a few times a month, so I don't have to do it often.
What bugs me is parents who bring their kids later in the morning with half their breakfast in their hands and want them to sit at the table to finish it. I don't have time to put them at the table and watch them eat while I have a bunch of little ones running around in the playroom!
I let them know that they have to get them to finish it before they come.

I would hand the breakfast back to parent and say that breakfast is done and I can't suspend the whole curriculum to watch their child eat so next food will be snack. If they comment that child not eaten enough to wait that long, tell parent they can supervise their child eating in the car and then join us when ready to participate in the current scheduled activity. It will only happen the one time. Not happen again if parent has to supervise own kid outside the building.