To think DC's nursery are twee and slightly rude?

[beahunnywashyourtummy]

There's a new (laminated) sign up at the door saying

When you come to greet me
Please don't cheat me
Smile and say how was your day
Laugh and giggle and spread some smiggle
I missed you today
Don't go away
Away on your phone far away
Instead just greet me
Don't try to cheat me
Let's go home and have some fun!

I wasn't aware of it (I've been off with DS), but someone's posted it into the WhatsApp group. It's clearly stuck on the door outside the nursery.

Obviously it's a message to get more parents to be 'present' at pick up time which is very valid and true, but, AIBU to vomit at how twee and ridiculous it is?

What on earth is a smiggle?! Isn't that an overpriced shop for stationary? In which case, no, I won't be sharing any smiggle

Don't know but am laughing that the stupid poem has made someone get their phone out to photograph and share it on WhatsApp. Bit of a fail there.

What's a fail about sharing it on WhatsApp? It makes no real sense and has a made up word in it!

And it'll never be read by any of the children because it's at she level of a 5'2+ person

I get the sentiment but the sign makes very little sense, and the message is lost among the crappy rhyming.

Why not just put

When collecting your child/ren, please remember that the nursery is a phone free area.

Water Yes I agree. The simpler the better. Why the need for the crappy little poem that needs a lot of rethinking!

Yanbu to think the poem is awful. Then again it's a bit shit when you see the kids come out all excited about what they've done and wanting to show what they've made and the parents just ignore them.

Its guilt-tripping crap, "I missed you today" and "don't go away". They ought to remember that if the parents didn't go to work the nursery would have no business to begin with.

Avenger meant it was a fail because they're asking people not to use their phones, but someone has used their phone to take a picture of the ridiculous sign.

Water Thank you! Sorry for my misconception

Sign asking people to get off their phones encourages people to get phone out (when they might otherwise not have) in order to take and share photo of sign = sign fails.

Aha.

This is not even poetry. It is doggerel.

Perhaps you could let them know in the What's App group.

Yanbu to think the poem is awful. Then again it's a bit shit when you see the kids come out all excited about what they've done and wanting to show what they've made and the parents just ignore them.

That's true although only a handful of children there are old enough to show you anything. The majority are 3 months to 2.5 years.

And I couldn't have my phone out collecting my DC because I have to go into the toddler room and I'd look a right idiot

It's like the asking for money at wedding poems. Lecturing by poem.

YABU, it’s sad to see children so excited to see their mum or dad and tell them about their day just to be hurried out or ignored because they’re doing something on their phone. This is just like the swimming thread, just be in the moment with your precious child and put your bloody phone away.

It's a shit sign - why not just say that the nursery is a mobile free zone?

Jesus. Lots of people used to dealing with small children appear unable to treat adults as adults.

Pretty sure "smiggle" isn't a word.

Also it's a really badly put together poem. They use the same rhyme "greet" and "cheat" twice (plus I dont see why looking at a phone would be "cheating")
And this part ^"Don't go away
Away on your phone far away"^ is repetitive and stupid.

Call I've seen the swimming thread and I can't see why anyone would spend the entire session watching their DC. You'd be bored to tears at my local one since there is a fair sized class so your child would only be on for 1/8 times.

Understandably collecting them from nursery is different but it's the poem that's got me! I'm

The poem is twee and awful.

The sentiment is totally understandable. How hard is it to greet your child at the end of a day without a phone?

They'd have been better off with a sign saying "at pickup/drop offs the nursery is a phone free area".

I'm a bit torn. I'd never greet DC with my phone out, just wouldn't. I love seeing his little face. I'm very interested and his little face is what I want to be seeing and hearing from at the end of my day.

But, I think it's a bit 'off' to police other adults about their phone usage? If it's not a safeguarding concern then it really isn't someone else's place to tell another adult they're using their phone inappropriately, no?

"Yanbu to think the poem is awful. Then again it's a bit shit when you see the kids come out all excited about what they've done and wanting to show what they've made and the parents just ignore them."

If a parent is that disengaged I doubt a twee poem will cause them to have an epiphany. It's sanctimonious crap.

I suppose you are more likely to remember this (as it is so twee) than a sign saying it is a mobile free zone

Oh that would make me get my phone out immediately. I don't need nursery telling me how to look after my child. My view would be that I pay them most of my wage to look after them for 8 hours day. I might be on my phone but often parents have run out of work into the car to get there. It might be work (which enables me to pay the fees), it might be my elderly parent. One thing it is not is any of their business.
I thought all nursery had a no phone policy because of the cameras anyway.

Smiggle is probably from the shop name. Combination of smile and giggle, naff sign.

They lost me at smiggle - what a stupid word!

It’s shit. You don’t pay them to attempt to give you the Mum guilts. A simple sign saying it’s a mobile free area which is standard for nurseries.
I’d be tempted to say how sweet you put a preschoolers poem up. If none of you went away they’d have no kids to look after.