What are your flex hours to get your kids on and off the bus?

[Anonymous]

When dropping off at morning SACC, we are required to walk them in. You can't just shoo them towards the door. Never thought about the door issue. I do it to hurry them up because otherwise they dawdle even longer. I'm not being their servant, I just want to be able to urge them into activity. They move so slowly sometimes. It's annoying especially when I'm standing outside in the cold or rain waiting for them to move.

[Anonymous]

I work 9-2:45 four days a week. Kids in ES. We live close enough to walk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.

Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?

Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?

Well my old beater car won't open from the inside on one side. If my kid needs to exit from that side, she either needs to climb into the front (won't be possible that many more years), or I need to get out myself and open the back from the outside. One of these days I will get it fixed, but I keep forgetting. But it's not because I'm pampering her.

Saying a loving goodbye to your child in the morning is hardly pampering.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.

Why wouldn't I walk them? They are important. Should I just open the door and kick them out next time.?

Where are you walking them? You've pulled up at the curb. Can't your kid hop out and be on their way? YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOUR CHILD. That's my whole point. Why are parents pulling up to school and then getting out of their car to open the door like they're a valet?

Our car door is heavy and my kindergartener can't open it. I wish the kiss and ride assistants would do it, but they don't - so out I go to open it.

[Anonymous]

I leave home at 5:30 and work 6-2:30. Arrive home at 3 and DD's bus arrives home at 4. DH handles the morning and leaves for work by 9. It's lucky I'm a morning person.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids get themselves to and from school unless there's some significant reason they can't take the bus. I work during school hours, but I am shocked to see parents pull up at school, get out of their car, walk to the back, and open the door for their kids. What happened in the last 20 years that kids old enough for elementary school are no longer capable of getting in and out of a car themselves?

I only pick up from school if the kids have to be somewhere directly afterwards and won't have time to come home first.

Ummm, maybe they want to give their child a hug or kiss and tell them to have a good day? not everyone wants to throw their kid at the school as quickly as possible and be on their way.

My kids know to open the car door and jump out as I drive by the school,cause I ain't stopping.

[Anonymous]

LOL!

[Anonymous]

I have the longest commute and the most strict schedule, so I alternate with my DH who has more flexibility. I telework 2 days a week and put the kids on/off the bus on those days. On the days I go into the office, DH gets them up and out in the morning and I pick them up from SACC in the afternoons.