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.

Hmmmm... I don't know.

I am all for animals, one of the things that sold me on ds's nursery was that when we visited they had all the kids drawing pictures of giant snails (one at every table) and they have chickens, and in the Spring there are (allegedly) tadpoles in the pond that they will visit. All good.

I am not too pushed about consent forms but ds's nursery highlight things they will be doing like this in a monthly newsletter. Ds has no allergies but I do, and it would be useful for me to know if he's likely to come home covered in cat hair.

Also, the word ferret makes me feel anxious. Hate the things. So perhaps I am reacting to that, but I am very afraid of them and most rodents (had an incident in a haystack with a rat as a child so believe me, not because of a cosseted bubble-wrapped childhood) and I would like to know if one of the lokel yokels was just bringing in the filthy smelly nasty thing.

I just realized how patronizingly poetic I came across. :o

Apologies!

@ squeakytoy

never heard anything so ridiculous....

DS came home from nursery declaring
'I met a guide dog today'
I was very pleased for him actually (no hadnt consented)
'It's name was lucky. He helps blind people see'
I was very chuffed with this bit of knowledge and his absolute delight
'I didn't touch it as I was a bit scared'
I wasn't surprised, nursery had dealt with it without a consent form. I was just thinking to myself how brilliant an idea this was when....
'You know blind people mum?.... They can't see coz they walk about all day like this closes eyes and puts hand in front of them'

Sigh...

Head, wall, bash... I was still trying to convince him that wasnt the case a year later...

On reflection any future children are not meeting guide dogs until they are at least 16yrs old LOL