Teaching is already a stressful job - without having your students' parents trying to flirt with you.

One woman who works in a daycare is facing that exact issue, as she claimed one dad keeps flirting with her whenever he comes to pick up his daughter, and it's making her uncomfortable.

The woman said she "clicked" with the man's four-year-old daughter - whom she gave the fake name Emmy - as soon as she began coming to the daycare, and because Emmy often clung to her teacher, she would see the girl's dad at pick-up time every day.

The woman would talk to the married dad-of-two casually, but as time went on, he became increasingly flirty. She claimed he often tells her how "young and smart" she is, and although it makes her "uncomfortable", he hasn't yet got the hint that he should stop.

In a post on Reddit, the woman wrote: "It obviously makes me uncomfortable, but for the sake of his daughter, I don't really say anything. I have tried to set some boundaries, but it's really uncomfortable. I jokingly said once, 'Well, if I were your age, I don't think I'd date someone as young as me,' and he was like, 'Well, good thing I would,' and he laughed."

The woman said she tried talking to her colleagues about his behaviour but they told her he's "just a flirt" and doesn't mean anything by it. However, things got worse when the dad asked for her phone number to "call if anything happens".

She added: "He was being super pushy, and I felt a little trapped, so I gave him my phone number. He texts me all the time, asking what I'm doing. I have FaceTimed his daughters a couple of times, but it just feels wrong.

"I briefly talked about this to a friend, and she said that she would've told his wife. I don't even think I have the guts to do that. Ever since my friend told me that, I started casually bringing up his wife in conversations. He would always change the subject or say she's not here."

Commenters on the post urged the woman to put more boundaries between them. This included only ever messaging him when it directly relates to his children and not talking to him in public outside of the daycare.

One woman who endured a similar experience shared: "If you see him in public don't be nice to him. I had a student's father who made me uncomfortable, he got my number from a coworker. I was just a b***h to him. I only contacted their mum about them. I mean honestly, sometimes you just can't be nice to people without giving them the wrong idea. I'm sorry he's making you uncomfortable, this sucks."

Another wrote: "You need to be a lot meaner. Just really frosty. He's super manipulative and inappropriate." A third also said: "Stop being a rug. You have every right to say NO to anything he asks. This is a business you work for. You are NOT friends. You are his kid's daycare teacher, that is it."

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