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Nursery drop offs

Genuine question to parents out there. Why is it so hard to say a simple hello to other parents at pick up/drop off at nursery , why go out of your way to avoid other parents, wouldn't it just be easier to say hello. Surely it's harder to avoid, seems so odd when we have something HUGE in common.... I get that we don't have time for full blown convos or room for more friends in our lives but surely it's just polite to acknowledge other parents.

For someone who's just moved to a new town I'm finding it incredibly difficult to find other parents to chat to, everything seems so closed. Yes it's my responsibility to go out there and go to mum groups and classes but it takes 2 to form a bond and there is effort required from both sides.

Im exhausted. Does anyone feel the same?

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I’m not sure where you live but we’re all gobshites at our nursery. I couldn’t tell you their names but we have a right gossip on a morning ahaha! X

In private nurseries parents are usually in a rush. But rarely any nursery opens their doors immediately, so there is definitely time for small chat.

Do you consider yourself an introvert? A good Hi, good morning, how was your weekend? Just chat about diseases, teething, the staff... With time you can expect more familiarity and see if you like them.

You can find out a couple of things about people just with small chat and realise they are some someone you may or may not want to become friends with.

I'm definitely not an introvert. That's the point of my post, people don't make eye contact so why would you go over to someone and bombard them when they are making it clear from their body language that they don't want to socialise.

So you don't even say hi, good morning? Do you feel that is bombarding them with questions?

I think most people do not want to talk that's what I've found and I've been doing the runs for 2/3 years now so I'll always smile, say hi be civil but majority of parents don't talk to each other

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