You pick your kids up from a drop-off party ON TIME

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

You rude parents are self-selecting your kids out of parties and social events. Just so you know. Oh well!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

You rude parents are self-selecting your kids out of parties and social events. Just so you know. Oh well!

Probably the same parents crying about cliques and mean moms not realizing they are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

You rude parents are self-selecting your kids out of parties and social events. Just so you know. Oh well!

I have no tolerance for ahole parents. Pull this once without texting you’re running late and your kid isn’t invited again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

You rude parents are self-selecting your kids out of parties and social events. Just so you know. Oh well!

I have no tolerance for ahole parents. Pull this once without texting you’re running late and your kid isn’t invited again.

Oh boo hoo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

Whelp, for 20 minutes she was. And she needs to get over it.

"Its my party and I'll cry if I want to!" says OP.

You rude parents are self-selecting your kids out of parties and social events. Just so you know. Oh well!

I have no tolerance for ahole parents. Pull this once without texting you’re running late and your kid isn’t invited again.

Oh boo hoo

NP. Welp, y’all sure do “boo hoo” in thread after thread about why wasn’t my kid invited, why is there a “clique,” why aren’t we included, why do the other moms socialize without me. Yes indeed you surrrreee do!

[Anonymous]

Given that it was a whopping three out of eight who were substantially late, I'm wondering if there was some kind of major traffic problem that would explain it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given that it was a whopping three out of eight who were substantially late, I'm wondering if there was some kind of major traffic problem that would explain it.

Doubt it bc normal parents would tell the host. These are jerk parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

So we now know her kids friends aren’t really friend, they’re a burden.

Host a party with your kid and the ILs at home if you hate other kids. You know there’s actually no reason to invite others, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given that it was a whopping three out of eight who were substantially late, I'm wondering if there was some kind of major traffic problem that would explain it.

Doubt it bc normal parents would tell the host. These are jerk parents.

I mean, I would text, but I can also see a parent trying to get there in time and find
Us parking not texting *because they’re are driving and focusing on getting there*, can’t you? What’s sad is people like OP assuming the worst of who are apparently her kids friends parents, over 15 min.

Then again, if parents had stayed there, OP would have been upset over the intrusion. Parents literally cannot win. It doesn’t have to be this way.

[Anonymous]

You guys know that an hour jumping at a trampoline place and some free pizza isn't some extravagant gift that the kid wouldn't otherwise have without your largesse?

OP's kid must attract some really obnoxious ones if OP hates interacting with them this much. My DDs friends are lovely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys know that an hour jumping at a trampoline place and some free pizza isn't some extravagant gift that the kid wouldn't otherwise have without your largesse?

OP's kid must attract some really obnoxious ones if OP hates interacting with them this much. My DDs friends are lovely.

Bizarre take. It’s really simple: pick your kid up on time, and if something happens to make you late, contact the host.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I picked up an hour late once. I was taking mass transit, the bus didn't go particularly close to the house where the party was, it was pitch black (winter) and I was completely lost. I was running up hills to find street signs to orient myself and trying to figure out on the map where to go. Couldn't get a cab to come into the hills. I was practically near tears from the stress by the time I got there and felt absolutely awful. Had the hardest time getting home too - we found a corner store on the way down the hills and I asked about the bus stop and didn't understand the directions.

Normally I'm super punctual. Occasionally, sh*t happens.

NP and sorry that happened to you—but this post isn’t *about* you and your very extenuating circumstance that led you to be an hour late that one time.

It’s clearly about parents who just don’t value other people’s time enough to either plan their activities to be on time or alert the host that they have a timing conflict that will cause them to be 15-20 minutes late for pickup.

Obviously extreme outliers like yours happen. But don’t excuse thoughtlessness and imposition by pretending all the late parents had some emergency or unusually-rare hardship. They didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

So we now know her kids friends aren’t really friend,[/b] they’re a burden. [b]

Host a party with your kid and the ILs at home if you hate other kids. You know there’s actually no reason to invite others, right?

Hate to break it to you any kid that’s not mine is a burden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you really need to calm down. DH and I both have coached sports over the years won out kids were in elementary school. Every week a parent would show up late. Your kid’s birthday party is once a year and you are bothered that you have to watch 3-4 kids for an extra 15-20 minutes?

I thought it was interesting to get to know the kids who interacted with my kids. And now with technology it is sooooo easy to let them watch a video on your phone. But even better is chatting with all the kids and seeing what they are like.

OP is not a babysitter. End of story.

So we now know her kids friends aren’t really friend,[/b] they’re a burden. [b]

Host a party with your kid and the ILs at home if you hate other kids. You know there’s actually no reason to invite others, right?

Hate to break it to you any kid that’s not mine is a burden.

DP here. That's sad. I don't feel that way at all! Do you assume that's how your child's teachers feel?