CM Club....Coats and shoes on for collection

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Do other minders do this? Am getting fed up with home time lasting 15-20 mins while mindees have tantrums, however I feel that parents may fin this rude and that i just want rid off at end of day.

why dont you ask if they would like you to put their coats on,they probably hate the tantrums too !!!,so you could be making a stressful situation better.good luck

I woul dlove it if my childminder had the kids ready for when I picked up - would make it so much easier to get out the door. In fact, might suggest this.

I do. Only draw back is if a parent is running late and hasn't told you, the mindees will start getting restless. It works generally for me though and lets face it, the parents want to go home as much as you want them to go home at the end of the day!

I get my mindees to put their shoes on ready, but not coats. Then at least we don't get the kicking and they can then go quickly.

I always used to do shoes but not coats, it worked well.

I do shoes & put coats on while chatting to mum/dad

BTW hate lace-ups on pre-schoolers grr

Katy have tried that with particular mindee and got kicked for my efforts. Mindee is an angel untill Dad turns up and then turns into a little so and so.

Ask dad to give 3 rings on mobile as he is coming (hands free of course) then put his coat on then explain that the tantrum is upsetting for every one & that this would bypass it

I do same as Katymac as my lot tend to pick up between 10 mins and 1 hour early so never know.

I try to get shoes on at the very least, as I know the mums are keen to get home and all mindees play up when cm and parent there!

I have one mum who likes to be in and out, and one that we gab on for ages together, the other one only lives down the block so I rarely see her - just scoot the kids home when she is in!

Thanks for all the replies, think I'll talk to all parents again and ask them if they are happy for me to carry on putting shoes and coats on, otherwise they'll just have to carry their delightful kicking and screaming shoeless bundles to their cars!

Am so glad it is not just me going through this every day, one mindee is the first to get shoes and coat on all day when we are going out but as soon as it is hometime she has a huge tantrum. Am fed up of it but at the same time don't want her wearing shoes in the house so I try to put them on quickly when mum comes to collect, this works fine until mum tries to help!

Currently I've only got 2 mindees who mess about when their parent arrives (one goes into "baby" mode, the other just ignores everyone and carries on playing until physically manoevered out the door). So I make sure these 2 have their shoes on before parent arrives. Unless they're muddy.

With one family, when I spotted the mum parking out front I would get the child to race to see if he could put his shoes on before she knocked on the door. Worked every time!

Coats I don't bother with, cos they all go to their cars carrying coats.

i have learned that ahrd way with this, both the crazynes and the time it all takes drives you insane, all my mindees are ready to go, i dont mind having a chat about thier day, but as the children are ready and i turn everything off, start tidying away, they no i am ready to finish and tbh most want to get straight away anyway, but the behaviour TOTAALY changes when mummy/daddy is there too(argh, this is too fresh of tonight despite coat and shoes on!)

Well, I will admit to not asking parents again in the end and just putting coats and shoes on regardless. Worked wonders with mindee2 (no kicking in the stomach, yay), mindee 1 still managed to play up regardless but it was only because she was having a good time and didn't want to stop colouring in with dd3.

I try to get mine ready but sometimes parents arrive while they are still finishing their dinner but I do shoes and coats even tho parents are there and i do with child sitting on my lap facing away from me so they can't kick and I just get on with it, mind you it's not often they kick up a fuss really, maybe because they know that its time to go and shoes and coats will be going on no matter what.

would have loved my childminder to have shoes/coats on when i arrived. daughter ALWAYS played up for me and wouldn't do either. I was always on my hands and knees with scarf and bag hanging around my neck trying to put shoes on her whilst childminder chatted about last nights tv. (she was lovely but LOVED to chat). I just wanted to go home!!

LMGs if I sat the child on my lap like that I'd end up with a broken nose!

Molly, you should have asked your minder to put shoes/coats on, I would much rather my parents discuss things with me rather than just battling on- although my parents don't seem to see it as a problem as such!

i know! but she was hard to approach about many things and would have taken it as criticism.

have asked cm to do this and not a problem - I'll send a text 5 min before I get to the house. hate that 'end of the day' struggle to get home from cm