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

"It makes no real sense and has a made up word in it!"

Perhaps they are mirroring Lewis Carrol, Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss etc.

If it was written plainly, then it would be branded as rude.

If it was written plainly, then it would be branded as rude.

I don't think 'Please be aware that this nursery is a mobile-free zone' would be perceived as at all 'rude'. It also makes it plain that this is a nursery policy to do with rules about phone usage in a particular building, rather than using a disgracefully twee poem to intervene in other people's parenting in a weirdly passive-aggressive way.

And before anyone suggests that I'm feeling attacked by the poem, my phone is strictly for work and emergencies only, not leisure. I don't use to for Mumsnetting and I don't use social media at all, so the only way I would be on my phone picking up my son from his after-school club, would be if DH or work phoned with some crisis.

Maybe there's a huge difference between people for whom phones are primarily/only work tools, and those for whom they are primarily or also for leisure/games/SM?

If it was written plainly, then it would be branded as rude.

Why? Since when twee,patronising,made-up bullshit became polite?
Can people seriously not cope with a straightforward,simple "these are the rules" message anymore?

Perhaps they are mirroring Lewis Carrol, Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss etc.

I think you have to be able to use basic English effectively, as the above all could, before you start adding in neologisms, portmanteau words etc
Otherwise it just sounds a bit mad.

There is something to stop parents getting their phones out once in the setting. It's a mobile phone free policy which the managers can politely but firmly remind parents of.

Absolutely right.

An interesting coincidence that this topic has arisen around the time Vanessa George is about to be released....

The timing is interesting.