nursery outing to Argos

[harrap]

to think that a trip to Argos is not what the parents who pay for a nursery would expect?

just been to Argos ( I know that could be considered unreasonable in itself) and seen 2 nursery workers and a group of 2-3 year olds in there. The workers were leafing through the catalogue and the children were standing round in silence. One lttle girl touched a gift card and was told off and another was told off for touching the worker. Other than that there was no interaction at all between workers and children.

I could see how a trip to a shop could be made interesting/educational and fun (even Argos) but the workers weren't explaining anything to the children who all looked rather glum and as I say were totally silent, which initself I thought rather odd.

In the end (I had been there 10 mins) I asked the workers what the idea was and they said they were buying things for the nursery and it was all part of "getting the children involved".

Well there are some mixed opinions here. The truth is the children were involved in b**r all and were being completely ignored (save for telling off). They were too small to see the catalogues, stock checkers etc all of which could be made interesting I agree, but no one was doing anything to make this a nice trip for the children and that is what they are paid for after all.

It was a sunny day and the park is ten minutes away.

I said something after 10 mins but was there for a lot longer (thank you Argos) nothing changed.

Why is it assumed I have no (paid) job? And what would the relevance of this be anyway?

Picktish have you a particular reason to object to people sticking their beaks in? Still don't understand why that should bother you.

When DD went to a nursery, they took them to Homebase (to see the recycling bins and talk about recycling and post some stuff into them, and another time to choose seeds to plant in the garden) and to Sainsburys (to choose sandwich fillings and come back and make their own sandwiches for lunch). The trips sounded really fun to me and DD came back full of what they'd done and obviously having enjoyed herself (not to mention possibly learning something). They also did lovely things like have a policewoman come in to talk about crossing the road and people coming in to play instruments and stuff. All the activities and trips sounded great to me and DD loved them. This sounds like a totally different kettle of fish and YANBU at all.

harrap I think it is a lovely trait to care .

The fact that your child does not attend that nursery indicates you had genuine concern .

Thank you .

I think YANBU. The lack of interaction would concern me too. I'm really glad you said something

YABU imo. Obviously kids need to be interacted with but this was 10 mins when some of the staff were presumably busy checking stock and putting the order nos on the slips for the toys the kids had chosen. Maybe not the most exciting part of the trip but massive overreaction from the op imo.

Sounds odd to me and I didn't realise sort of thing went on at other nurseries.

DD doesn't go anywhere when she's at nursery as all activities are on site (they use the children's centre facilities as well as the nursery ones).

They do have nursery trips out once in a while but then the parents are expected to come along too.

My ds's reception class are off to Waitrose next week, would that be a more suitable outing?

My DDs view Argos as an (excellent) chance to collect catalogues and flyers to cut and stick (this also happens in Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, Asda, B&Q, homebase etc etc) our trips are very un-eco friendly

I'm on the fence with this one. DS's nursery have taken the children to the bank (where some count out the money and some tear the slips out of the book) and to the local hospital to donate some money they have raised. I don't have a problem with that - for the bank I can see there was a purpose but fair enough. Also think shops in general are interesting for kids, but Argos seems so...bleh.
Added to that the fact that they weren't being asked to llok through the catalogues, make an attempt at filling the little forms in with the little pens, or paying for the items, I think YANBU

ha how werid never seen it round here and all 4 nurserys i have worked in we would never be allowed to do that trips out have to be risk assest, ratio informed and parent approved and never to do nursery or self shopping lol

My god how dull for them. I suppose at least it'll teach them how to queue.