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You are flustered because you are not used to more involved parenting and feel you might be judged for continuing your perfectly legitimate parenting.

Don't criticize these parents for having the free time and desire to socialize. I am the only adult to stick around at the bus stop, and am the one who calls the bus depot when the bus is running late, so that I can reassure kids who start getting anxious.

I doubt you'll get judged, but it would be diplomatic to introduce yourself, or at least smile warmly and greet the adults. If you say you just moved here, they will welcome you. If you say your mornings are really busy, and that you will be sending your kids alone in the future, they will understand.

These types of little social issues can always be solved by COMMUNICATION.
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Helicopter parents abound here OP.     Example A.

Welcome from one PA person to another!

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So true!  I am from Connecticut and we sent our kids out to the the bus stop in the snow.  See ya!!  Here, all the parents actually drive their precious kids to the bus stop.  Yes, they turn their car on, heat it up, drive up the street and idle their toxic fumes at the bus stop in front of the handful of actual walkers until the bus comes, and then turns their car back around and go home!   Precious only has to be in the cold for 4.3 seconds that way.

OP, they actually close schools here if there are flurries or if it is too cold.  Yes, just cold weather! It is insane. A whole new world of suffocating parents. 
[b]Find some transplant families like yourself.[/b]  They are much more laid back. 
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Everyone is a transplant here, PP. Hate to break it to you, but you are not unique.[/quote]

OP, these are the kind of moms you will run into at the bust stop.  Do yourself a favor and stay warm this winter.   :lol: [/quote]

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