Waiting for last kid to get picked up...

[Anonymous]

Are you sure the kid didn’t tell their mom to come later? Sometimes we plan for a 9:30 pickup and when I text my daughter to check in she says they are having fun and she wants to stay longer. We are talking 14-15 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always assume I don’t know what’s going on in other people’s homes.

If a parent is really late and we have to go out, we take guest kid with us and try to reach parent to let them know. Life is too short to get annoyed about this.

-1 sometimes my kid’s next activity is a drop off at a sport event. Sometimes it’s another get together with a different friend. Sometimes it’s a family get together, we are invited to someone’s house or just homework time. Sorry, not gone just shrug this off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure the kid didn’t tell their mom to come later? Sometimes we plan for a 9:30 pickup and when I text my daughter to check in she says they are having fun and she wants to stay longer. We are talking 14-15 year olds.

Seriously? How about:
Host mom:
Pick up is at 10

Guest kid to her mom: I want to stay til 1.

Option A:
Pick up at 1

Option B:
Mom of guest kid texts host mom:
- 10 still good?
- just want to verify pick up is at 10, right?
Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always assume I don’t know what’s going on in other people’s homes.

If a parent is really late and we have to go out, we take guest kid with us and try to reach parent to let them know. Life is too short to get annoyed about this.

Yeah, no.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I told the dad when he dropped off his son what time to pick up. So they knew...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

Is your husband an executive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

I have another child at home, and we all have to get ready for the basketball game (both kids playing). Plus they live 20 minutes away in the opposite direction of the games and I have no idea if they are at home or somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

This is why we stopped sleepovers, or at least limited them to rare occasions. Once the kids get to a certain age, they are very inconvenient and interfere with everyone’s schedules.

[Anonymous]

I don’t wait for pickups anymore. I tell parents what time I’m dropping their kid off. This is so much better than being trapped at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

Fair is you do one way and they do one way or meet 1/2 way. Maybe the parents have something going on and doing the best they can. They are doing 2 round trips for an hour each which is a lot for their kid to entertain yours so you don't have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

Fair is you do one way and they do one way or meet 1/2 way. Maybe the parents have something going on and doing the best they can. They are doing 2 round trips for an hour each which is a lot for their kid to entertain yours so you don't have to.

FFS. Did you pull a muscle stretching that far?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

Fair is you do one way and they do one way or meet 1/2 way. Maybe the parents have something going on and doing the best they can. They are doing 2 round trips for an hour each which is a lot for their kid to entertain yours so you don't have to.

FFS. Did you pull a muscle stretching that far?

Different poster: you must be one of the always late people. It’s not okay despite trying to deflect it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah nice try. If you reciprocate, I will drive my kid to you. Oh but you don't. . . . so you drive or you decline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter used to have a best friend in elementary school whose parents would routinely do this. Absolutely no regard for pickup time. I was caught between a rock and a hard place because my daughter begged me not to say anything to them and she loved her friend, so wanted to continue doing sleepovers/playdates with her. So we had several years of having to put up with that $hit until they finally went to different schools and grew apart.

Some people have zero regard for other people's time.

I'm pretty sure these are the same parents who are ALWAYS late to school and daycare pickup (depending on the age of the child) and end up being annoyed that they should pay overage fees. There's a child in my kid's class who has a SAHP that literally lives DOWN THE STREET that is always picked up late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I wanted the kid gone, I'd just take them home. Lots of uptight people on this thread!

Private school, kid lives 30 minutes away. I don't want to rearrange my day to spend an hour driving someone else's kid home after I've hosted a sleepover. Parents should have declined the invitation if it was not convenient for them.

Is your husband an executive?

Not sure why that's relevant but no, we both work and have other children with other obligations.