Wording For Pick Up Time

[Blackcat31]

Do the parents get offended by this?

Why would they get offended?

They don't hang out in Target after it closes. kwim?

I am a business too and have hours I am available and hours I am not.

There is NO reason a parent needs to be here (my property) beyond a certain time.

If they need to discuss something, it needs to be done some other time as I don't discuss things on the fly and I don't do any discussion about the child or the child care while the child is present.

[Denise]

When I babysat, back when my own kids were babies (over 20 years ago) I had a young dad come to pick up his baby, lay on the floor, play with him, talk to the birds we had, pick up the baby and talk to the birds, talk to the dog, play with the dog, talk to me ... I would hint around, start making dinner, cover the darn birds, let the dog out, ignore him and devote my attention to my own kids ...he would never leave. I finally gave him the darn birds to take home and told him they need to be fed every day at x time (exactly a half hour after he got out of work) or they would die. He never stayed late after that. LOL He drove me completely nuts. If and when I do have the opportunity to open my own daycare (before I get too old) I will take the suggestions here and add them to the handbook I'm working on. I'm older now and more assertive so I don't think I'll have an issue laying down the rules. I would love to be able to have an all-inclusive handbook so I can "refer" parents back to it. ::