OP, you can type a message to him and have your email program send it to him on a time delay. Something about your post bothers me though. He won't use reminders on his phone and you are too "busy" to remind him yourself. I wonder if he agreed under duress. In any event, I'd have the kids go wherever they go the other four days after school and he can get them there whenever he decides to do that. Unless you are paying the school for after care, it isn't appropriate for the staff and your kids to cool their heels waiting for grandpa to show up. You have a system in place that works the other four days, so make use of it. That way the kids will be cared for properly and their grandpa won't be under the gun to pick them up on time.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not have someone who would forget to pick up my kids be responsible for picking up my kids.

That would leave my husband out of the mix

Then he sucks.

Anonymous wrote:Go to iphone, clock, repeate every tuesday, and set the time for the alarm to go off.

This is what you should do. I'll bet that he uses it for other reminders once you show him how to do it.

Anonymous wrote:I would not have someone who would forget to pick up my kids be responsible for picking up my kids.

That would leave my husband out of the mix

Anonymous wrote:We use an App called Cozi for household organization and calendars. You can share it with different people and it will send reminders to the appropriate person at a set time.

We use a similar, though I think less sophisticated, app called SquareHub. You can send events to someone with preset reminders. I find it useful for the exact reason OP has.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.

Being responsible is part of taking care of children. Remembering to pick them up is part of that. I, personally, would not have someone pick up my children who, I knew, in advance, would forget- to the degree that I had to figure out how to remind them.

+1

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.

Being responsible is part of taking care of children. Remembering to pick them up is part of that. I, personally, would not have someone pick up my children who, I knew, in advance, would forget- to the degree that I had to figure out how to remind them.

+1

Maybe he's a terrific grandpa, and the kids love spending time with him, but maybe this particular task isn't for him.

+1. Has he always been this way?

My dad is also a great grandpa, but starting to slip a little, and his hearing was one of the first things to go. So he tended to miss phone calls and other auditory reminders. He is in denial about his hearing loss, so I can't leave really young kids with him.

Anonymous wrote:Hi - My FIL has an excellent memory, but gets involved in a task and forgets the time. He uses his iPhone, but doesn't set reminders. He's agreed - and the kids are so excited - to pick them up every Tuesday at school for some special time. I want to be able to send him a text or email to remind him -- but I want to set it up, not have to text or email him myself every week. (Burdensome to me, annoying to him.) I can't seem to find an app or a website that will send weekly, timed reminders to someone not having a gmail account (yes, he's still aol) or using outlook. Please help.

What if you create an event on your Gmail calendar and then add him as a guest? Doesn't it send a reminder to the guest as well as the owner of the calendar?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.

Being responsible is part of taking care of children. Remembering to pick them up is part of that. I, personally, would not have someone pick up my children who, I knew, in advance, would forget- to the degree that I had to figure out how to remind them.

+1

Maybe he's a terrific grandpa, and the kids love spending time with him, but maybe this particular task isn't for him.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.

Being responsible is part of taking care of children. Remembering to pick them up is part of that. I, personally, would not have someone pick up my children who, I knew, in advance, would forget- to the degree that I had to figure out how to remind them.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I would not have someone who would forget to pick up my kids be responsible for picking up my kids.

+ everything

Anonymous wrote:Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.

Being responsible is part of taking care of children. Remembering to pick them up is part of that. I, personally, would not have someone pick up my children who, I knew, in advance, would forget- to the degree that I had to figure out how to remind them.

Ability to set up a reminder is not at all related to ability to take care of kids.