To have a word with the nursery?

[lauraloveskitsch]

DD1 is 3.6 and in nursery five afternoons a week. We got the newsletter yesterday and this term they're learning about animals. They will have a selection of animals coming in provided by parents which the children will learn about and be able to handle.

DH was up there earlier to find the children had already met a big chocolate labrador and tomorrow will meet a ferret.

AIBU to have a word with the nursery? There have been no consent forms given, the newsletter was handed out late and the only people who knew about this are the parents who are bringing animals and are friends outside the school with the teachers.

What if there was an incident? AIBU about this? FWIW I would sign the consent form but I wish I'd been informed and had a choice.

"If one bites could you sue the nursery? I'm not sure but I'm sure someone would try."

Someone = OP

Cher-ching!!!!

Boom Boom Squeaky very good that chocolate labrador

Ooh look out - now look what you've done - l think teachers come in to tell us off.

Altogether now:

Whats that coming over the hill is it a fer-ret?
Its a fer-ret!!!!

Seriously OP yes its an outrage. I read once that ferrets are venomous.

Have a word, let us know what happens

I'm glad to know there are nurseries that still do this kind of thing! When even most zoos have stopped their animal encounters for fear of being sued, this gives me hope for the future!

FWIW I am terrified of dogs, and I would be happy for my sprogs to meet a well-controlled one in a safe environment like nursery, so they don't end up like me.

We got to meet a barn owl and a snake at school. Best days of my primary school life!

My DD is at nursery and they recently had tarantulas, lizards and stick insects making an appearance. We were not asked to sign consent forms. What a bloody ridiculous idea. I would rather my DD's nursery actually do stuff with the kids than spend all their time doing paperwork. I think its fab they are educating the kids about animals. You hear so much today about teenagers never having seen a cow.

I'm with u cailin, teachers will stop bothering to do anything at all with our kids if people keep on picking at every effort they make x teachers and nursery staff spend alot of time outside the opening hours thinking and planning what they could do to make the children learn and have a good time x no child would have been forced to go near the animals if they were scared and didn't want to x I k ow my daughter would have been first in line to stroke the dog x sounds like a lovely idea to me x

I still remember ds coming home at the same age, super proud because he had held a python, was the only one in his class brave enough to hold it, was a little pfb in that I was narked there was no photo.......

At four and a half he held an eagle on his arm, I do have the pic of that one.

DS stroked a Staffie today.

It was outside Greggs and even though the owner had all of his teeth and seemed happy to be asked about his dog...well you never know do you.

Am waiting for the knock on the door from Social Services, especially as I didn't wash DS's hands immediately.

FWIW OP I suspect animals brought into nurseries are going to be those that the owner knows is very unlikely to rip arms off. They will be the ones that won't blink an eyelid at having thirty little sticky hands grabbing them, pulling their tails and ears and giving them wet kisses.

I think you gathered that YABU now.

My sons childminder that he's starting with in April asked me if he would allowed to be involved in messy play. I said yes of course. She said that that was a relief as a girl she had once wasn't allowed to paint, or use play dough or even colour using crayons just in case she ruined her clothes!

hahahaha pmsl squeaky

I have a black lab who loves children if anyone wants to borrow her for a nursery visit !

(For benefit of OP - she loves children but could never eat a whole one )

I will look out for it in the newspaper next week-huge headline:
pet ferret runs amok in the nursery

What will you do when they move on to snakes and tarantulas?

We have had snakes and tarantulas at my DS old playgroup !n

Jay z would be horrified filibear.

An owl landed on DS1 on a school trip once.

My daughter's nursery had the manager's dog come in one day as she was leaving and they were having a bit of a party and thought it would be nice for the kids. They did ask me that morning if there were any issues, but didn't send home a form and I don't see why they would? Dog allergies are not fatal (nothing like e.g. peanut allergies) and a child could be taken out to another room if they didn't like it, but presumably most kids have seen dogs on the streets etc? I did work at a special needs school for a while where one boy had panic attacks if he saw a dog but that's a bit different (and even then he was supposed to be learning to manage anxiety if he saw a dog, not just kept away from them completely as that's impractical in normal life). As it is I was going 'yay doggy!' to dd about it as she loves them. I'd be more worried about the dog getting stressed out with a bunch of hyper, excited toddlers squealing at it!

I'm a nursery nurse and last year we had a complaint from a parent because we had two pet mice in for a week as part of our topic.

They were pets, in a plastic tank, (brought in by a vet parent) the children did not get the chance to handle them before a complaint came in saying that they may 'transfer diseases into the air' and that their child would not be returning to nursery until they were gone. And they wanted a refund.

I am actually not kidding, though few people believe me!

I would be sad to get a letter home asking permission.

1. What is the world coming to when kids can't play with a puppy
2. How could you say no and have your child separated from all the other kids playing with the super cute animals
3. You say you would have said yes anyway, so would you have find differently if you had know in advance?

I think meeting animals at Nursery would be lovely for the kids being an animal lover myself, but I can see that it could be a little frightening for some parents who have no experience of animals. What happens at the Nursery if one of the kids is allergic though?....mind they should have that on file surely anyway?

I briefly had a ferret as a child and he was capable of shooting shit quite a distance. He was in a hutch and could turn his nether regions to the wire and shoot the shit a good six feet. THAT would make a brilliant incident report.