do you wait when you drop kids off at an activity/class?

[annie0000]

Took the boys to their Judo class last night and found that it was off because they were using the centre for voting. I am pretty sure that the guy who takes the class didn't mention it last week, no big deal, these things happen. However, there was another young lad waiting at the door - about age 11 I would say. He was standing there freezing in his Judo suit as his Mum had dropped him off and drove away.

Anyway - I couldn't leave him there in the cold for an hour but found that he didn't live locally so would have been a fair drive to take him home. I didn't have my mobile but we managed to borrow one for him to try phoning home, no answer and couldn't leave a message for some reason.

He thought that his Dad was maybe at the gym so I took him there where he managed to find him...alll well in the end and I absolutely didn't mind at all, but the lady at the gym said that people drop their kids of there regularly for classes etc and don't wait when the class isn't on and she often has kids sitting in the cafe under her own supervision.

I have to say that I always either go in with my kids to make sure they are handed over (age 11 and 10) or at least watch them go in and wait for a while in case there is any problem.

Just wondered how many folk just drop and go?

[ummmm]

Always took mine in. I'd have a constant feeling of doom if I didn't.

[andy-hughes]

Always took mine in too - in fact on the occasions when I drop them off now if they have lifts home or are using taxis, I still wait until they go in safely, and they are all married with kids!

Old habits like this don't die hard - they just don't die!

[annie0000]

yeah Ummmm - me too - he was a lovely young lad, but my kids only went back to Judo a couple of weeks ago after a gap of over a year, so I didn't know this boy at all and he lived about 10 miles away!

[annie0000]

...I on the other hand live about 3/4s of a mile away and my boys could have just walked home.....but I still went to take them in. You can't see the entrance from the car park but there were boards outside for the candidates in the election, so you could clearly see that there was something on there.

[annie0000]

thanks Andy - I agree :o)

[cathfromsaron]

that happened to me when i was a child!

cried my eyes out!

i always used to go right in and hand them over properly!

[mrs_overall]

I always took mine in. There were a number of times over the years when I took them in to various activities, only to find the activity had been cancelled.

[yogasun]

Agree with Andy and all others here. I'm afraid I get the impression that quite a few parents can't wait to 'offload' the kids at some activity so they can get on with their own lives as though they are an inconvenience.

[annie0000]

I am sure his mum and dad have learned a lesson, he didn't look or sound like he came from a home where people didn't care and the village he lives in is pretty affluent.

[mrs_overall]

Despite always going in with mine, there was one shameful occasion I fell asleep on the sofa and missed picking up one of the kids from a class. The instructor brought her home. Oh the shame.

[annie0000]

I'm guessing that Mum dropped him off and headed out and Dad was to pick him up after the Gym - they probably do it every week and it runs like clockwork......until you don't know that the class is off. The class runs 2 days a week but we only go on Thursdays so I guess the leader maybe said on Tuesday it was off but maybe didn't know last Thursday. He runs it at no profit too.

[annie0000]

lol Mrs O - the shame of it!!!!!! - I come home and set the timer on the cooker :o)

[I.Don No]

how many just drop and go?

far too many imho.......one would be one too many

[NOX]

It would depend which child of mine to be honest- my daughter who is 14 ( the one that posts on here) I would trust to have sorted it out herself as to whether it was on in the first place etc as she's super well organised but my son whose 26 this year- oh dear- the whole family still feel the need to babysit him because he's disorganised, things just ' happen' to him and everything invariably goes wrong and he just stands there like a lost lamb with a 'Why has this happened?' type face. The rescue missions we have mounted about what should have been quite a normal thing anyone else could have done without issue...

[rozia]

I take them straight in and check everything is fine. Its good responsible parenting.