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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have friends that ALWAYS MAKE US WAIT.  in 8 years they have never been on time. Even for zoom calls.  It is incredibly rude and we just say after waiting....never mind. We have something right after and can't wait.   So don't be those people.

Open to suggestions on how to deal. My DD loves their DD & it isn't fair to the kids.

It feels like a power play by the mom[/quote]

They are making you wait because their kid has to change pants 100 times. (I’m just kidding.)[/quote]

LOL....Totally.  more accurately, probably the mom.  I think it is to show how important she is. But I work FT and she is a SAHM.  idk.[/quote]
I’m a SAHM, and I’ve found that when I didn’t live by the clock (didn’t have to be at job by a certain time, children weren’t in school yet), I tended to have poor skills at knowing exactly how long it would take to get us out of the house, and my kids had no concept of a precise routine that didn’t deviate. We’d be late and I’d know what went wrong and I’d take steps to ensure that we weren’t late for that reason again, but a different kid would have a different reason that made us late the next time. My kids just couldn’t “hurry up” when they were little. Telling them to do so was like speaking a foreign language to them. Once they started school and knew there were consequences for being late (beyond mom stressing out and scolding them), they got it. After that, we were rarely late, and if we were, it was by 1-3 minutes. It was never a power play on my part. I was very apologetic and felt terrible when we were late.[/quote]

So you never went to movies, plays, story time at the library, Breakfast with Santa, get on a plane to visit someone, church, a thing with a solid start time? [/quote]

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