Parents driving to the bus stop every single day

[Anonymous]

So Last year We had a couple parents that will drive their kids to the bus stop every single day. They will also pick them up. Any reasons for this beside they are lying in where they live? is common in your neighborhood

[Anonymous]

I've seen parents do this when they are running late, which was often. And I know they live in my neighborhood because I've been to their house.

[Anonymous]

Several parents do this at our daughter's bus stop. They're driving to work - nothing shady or lazy.

[Anonymous]

They are driving to work at the latest possible time so their kids aren't home alone before school

[Anonymous]

My neighbor also does this and then drives to work afterward.

[Anonymous]

As others have mentioned, all the people I know who do this are dropping off their kid on their way to work. Easier than walking to then going back to get car. If their mornings are like ours, I totally get wanting to stay home as long as possible

[Anonymous]

Yes, there are reasons besides lying.

[Anonymous]

I see lots of parents drive their kids to the bus stop, and a number of them then turn around and drive back home.

I can somewhat understand doing that if the weather is REALLY bad (pouring rain, extreme cold, etc.) and the school is far away so it still makes sense for the kid to take the bus rather than have the parent drive the child to school, or if the bus stop is quite far away from the child's home, or if the child is somehow incapacitated (injured, carrying a project, etc.), but I don't understand doing that on a regular basis in most situations.

My former neighbor used to drive her typically developing, upper-elementary-school and late-middle-school/early-high-school-aged children to the bus stop that was about 50 yards away from her home. She would drop them off to stand at the bus stop while she waited in the car. Then, when the bus came, she drove back home. I found that strange, but figured there had to be something about which I wasn't aware that caused her to do what she did. I only every saw her drive the older kid to the bus stop (because I went to work around the same time the kid's bus came), but she told me she did it for the younger one, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So Last year We had a couple parents that will drive their kids to the bus stop every single day. They will also pick them up. Any reasons for this beside they are lying in where they live? is common in your neighborhood

If they are at your neighborhood bus stop, they should live in the neighborhood, so you should know them.

[Anonymous]

I live out in the exburbs in a gated community. There are lines of cars waiting to drop/off pick up kids of all ages at the bus stop regardless of weather. It's weird but apparently a thing out here.

[Anonymous]

cause we don't like to walk when we can drive? you should get a job in the HOA.

[Anonymous]

I have a neurological condition - not apparent to the casual viewer - that weakens me. Sometimes driving is the only way to get him there when I can't walk.

[Anonymous]

I drive to the bus stop so that I can then jump into the car and drive my youngest to preschool. Walking to the bus stop makes the youngest late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see lots of parents drive their kids to the bus stop, and a number of them then turn around and drive back home.

I can somewhat understand doing that if the weather is REALLY bad (pouring rain, extreme cold, etc.) and the school is far away so it still makes sense for the kid to take the bus rather than have the parent drive the child to school, or if the bus stop is quite far away from the child's home, or if the child is somehow incapacitated (injured, carrying a project, etc.), but I don't understand doing that on a regular basis in most situations.

My former neighbor used to drive her typically developing, upper-elementary-school and late-middle-school/early-high-school-aged children to the bus stop that was about 50 yards away from her home. She would drop them off to stand at the bus stop while she waited in the car. Then, when the bus came, she drove back home. I found that strange, but figured there had to be something about which I wasn't aware that caused her to do what she did. I only every saw her drive the older kid to the bus stop (because I went to work around the same time the kid's bus came), but she told me she did it for the younger one, too.

You have lots of parents at your bus stop who live within site distance of the bus stop for you to know they're all driving straight home? To the extent this does happen, is it possible they have a younger child they drop off at preschool/daycare before the bus arrives?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You have lots of parents at your bus stop who live within site distance of the bus stop for you to know they're all driving straight home? To the extent this does happen, is it possible they have a younger child they drop off at preschool/daycare before the bus arrives?

We have only one way in, and one way out, of our small neighborhood. There is one road off of which there are a number of short streets, and the bus stop is at the top of the one long street. If the parents aren't driving back home from the bus stop, they are driving randomly around the short streets, so I am assuming they are driving back home. :p