Aftercare is cruel to kindergarteners

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have three friends whose children are starting kindergarten with my daughter. They will be dropping them off at 7:45 am, and not picking them up until 6 pm!! These poor kids are going to be in aftercare from 2:30 on. Why on earth would you do this to a five year old??

I don't get how they are comfortable only seeing their children about 2-3 hours a day. It would break my heart.

What do others think?

If that would break your heart, you need to toughen up. You seem rather wimpy, which isn't good for your child.

[Anonymous]

LOL, OP, better luck next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have three friends whose children are starting kindergarten with my daughter. They will be dropping them off at 7:45 am, and not picking them up until 6 pm!! These poor kids are going to be in aftercare from 2:30 on. Why on earth would you do this to a five year old??

I don't get how they are comfortable only seeing their children about 2-3 hours a day. It would break my heart.

What do others think?

Troll Fail.

Seriously, at least include some imaginative details. Are the kindegarrteners force to wear matching orange jumpsuits, do they get candies from Papa Stalin? Are the moms slutty ladies who go out for drinks with men while their young children rot in aftercare (that would make me gasp)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been covered before. Some folks have to work full time and don't really have a choice. .

Sure they do. Downsize, downsize, downsize. You don't need to live in a 3,000 sq ft place, hire help for cleaning and yardwork, wear the best clothes, have an iPhone5, drive an SUV with only one or two kids, use coupons and shop the specials. Cook more, go out to eat once a month or less.

It can easily be done, even in this area. But people here are too set on keeping up their extravagant lifestyles.

Priorities.

Hey, we won't judge you for living poor ok?

[Anonymous]

Some of us don't have a choice, asswipe! We have to work to put food on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been covered before. Some folks have to work full time and don't really have a choice. .

Sure they do. Downsize, downsize, downsize. You don't need to live in a 3,000 sq ft place, hire help for cleaning and yardwork, wear the best clothes, have an iPhone5, drive an SUV with only one or two kids, use coupons and shop the specials. Cook more, go out to eat once a month or less.

It can easily be done, even in this area. But people here are too set on keeping up their extravagant lifestyles.

Priorities.

Hey, we won't judge you for living poor ok?

Nope, not living poor. Living within our means, comfortably. I can't help it if this is a foreign concept to you. However, "worth" is relative. My children are worth more than outsourcing them to someone else for most of their waking hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us don't have a choice, asswipe! We have to work to put food on the table.

Name-calling is so tacky.

But really: What do you drive? What kind of home do you live in? What kind of neighborhood? What extras could you trim back on? Yeah, it's an inconvenient truth but you could do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us don't have a choice, asswipe! We have to work to put food on the table.

A lot of people in this area just make the wrong choices. Really.

[Anonymous]

A good aftercare is their neighborhood. With friends and free play.

A bad one is stressful.

[Anonymous]

Well if you are so concerned, why not offer to take the kids home with your snowflake every day and watch them until 6pm. No? What? I thought your heart was broken for them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been covered before. Some folks have to work full time and don't really have a choice. .

Sure they do. Downsize, downsize, downsize. You don't need to live in a 3,000 sq ft place, hire help for cleaning and yardwork, wear the best clothes, have an iPhone5, drive an SUV with only one or two kids, use coupons and shop the specials. Cook more, go out to eat once a month or less.

It can easily be done, even in this area. But people here are too set on keeping up their extravagant lifestyles.

Priorities.

Hey, we won't judge you for living poor ok?

Nope, not living poor. Living within our means, comfortably. I can't help it if this is a foreign concept to you. However, "worth" is relative. My children are worth more than outsourcing them to someone else for most of their waking hours.

You better not send them to school at all then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have three friends whose children are starting kindergarten with my daughter. They will be dropping them off at 7:45 am, and not picking them up until 6 pm!! These poor kids are going to be in aftercare from 2:30 on. Why on earth would you do this to a five year old??

I don't get how they are comfortable only seeing their children about 2-3 hours a day. It would break my heart.

What do others think?

My own children notice this too. They come home from school and talk about the kids in aftercare and how they feel sorry for them. They say everyone knows who they are and those kids are always sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been covered before. Some folks have to work full time and don't really have a choice. .

Sure they do. Downsize, downsize, downsize. You don't need to live in a 3,000 sq ft place, hire help for cleaning and yardwork, wear the best clothes, have an iPhone5, drive an SUV with only one or two kids, use coupons and shop the specials. Cook more, go out to eat once a month or less.

It can easily be done, even in this area. But people here are too set on keeping up their extravagant lifestyles.

Priorities.

Ah, yeah. I do all of these things and yet my husband and I still have to work. We live in less than 2000 square feet in the burbs with so so schools and drive our cars into the ground. We never go out. I guess we are just epic fails in your book and cleearly still don't have the right priorties. Smh.

[Anonymous]

The advice to downsize is good in certain circumstances, but many of us have the kind of jobs that don't allow part-time or flexible scheduling. There aren't actually many jobs out there that do offer those kinds of perks - even part-time work at Wal-Mart, you have to be available when they need you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of us don't have a choice, asswipe! We have to work to put food on the table.

Name-calling is so tacky.

But really: What do you drive? What kind of home do you live in? What kind of neighborhood? What extras could you trim back on? Yeah, it's an inconvenient truth but you could do it.

No, really I couldn't. You think I just enjoy dropping my kid off for an extremely long day??? What the hell is wrong with you. I don't even know why I'm engaging with you, because you really are a horrible human being. I'm a single parent, living in a tiny apartment, driving an old car and shopping at used clothing stores.

The name calling is very fitting in this care. What's really tacky is your entire post.