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to think that my 8 year old's teacher should not be showing the class her baby scan pictures

140 replies

buize · 20/02/2012 19:53

My daughter came home to day from school and could not tell me what subjects she had learnt, but could tell me all about her teacher's baby scan. Is it me, or should this type of information be restricted to family and friend's.

OP posts:
RatherBeOnThePiste · 20/02/2012 20:48
Grin Now hide it Grin
KatyJ26 · 20/02/2012 20:49

If the pregnancy didn't go to plan, that would obviously be very sad, but is it worth missing out on a great learning opportunity 'just in case' ?

Sparklingbrook · 20/02/2012 20:50

Will do Rather. I am going to start a ridiculous AIBU thread of my own I think. Wink

ShagOBite · 20/02/2012 20:50

How will the children feel if their teacher loses her baby anyway popcorn? Why would having seen a picture make any difference? These are eight year olds, they know what a baby is.

And yes, suspecting TWS too.

VivaLeBeaver · 20/02/2012 20:50

I think it's good when a teacher has a good relationship with her class and talks about themselves. Let's the kids know they're human, obviously not droning on for the whole morning but snippets of info is good.

Dds teacher in yr4 shared the news of her engagement, told the class tales of going camping with her puppy, etc.

ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 20/02/2012 20:51

This place is permanently weird these days.

Too many 'hairy footers'.

Too many 'writers'.

Too many 'weird ones'

RatherBeOnThePiste · 20/02/2012 20:51

Please do Sparkling - we need another laff Grin

I did think of another, but can't remember it now Wine
Hopefully it will come back to me!

Dustinthewind · 20/02/2012 20:52

What about all those pregnant mothers in the playground, talking about their unborns and encouraging children not their own to join in?
I've even seen some of them allowed to touch bumps and feel the movement.Shock

Cathycomehome · 20/02/2012 20:56

This might be me. Blush I showed my scan photo to my class when I got back from scan; some of them are 8.

20 week scan next week. Was going to show them that one too (all being well - touches wood and tries not to get too neurotic about it )

faintpinkline · 20/02/2012 20:57

OP YABU, its lovely the teacher wants to share her news with her pupils and to give them a chance to learn as part of the process.

As it happens, I'm pregnant. We told DD and showed her the scan. The next day when I picked her up from school number of her friends came racing up asking to see the photo of the baby in my tummy. They were five and six year olds and clearly fascinated. Questions ranged from - how did they take a photo inside your tummy? How did the baby get there (a bit of me joined up with a bit of DD's daddy and it turned into a baby). Is it comfortable in there and of course how will baby get out (through a special stretchy hole that all women have specially for babies). I am sure your DD and her friends were equally fascinated and asked similar questions

Sittinginthesun · 20/02/2012 20:58

Good luck, Cathy.

Cathycomehome · 20/02/2012 21:01

Thank you! Grin

ThierryHenryismyBoyfriend · 20/02/2012 21:01

What a strange reaction, you seem a little odd quite frankly. It's nice.

Deadsouls · 20/02/2012 21:02

I think yes YABU to be wound up by it

sodapops · 20/02/2012 21:04

YABU.

I still remember my Yr2 (34years ago) telling us she was pregnant, then we knew it was twins. My nan knitted a couple of matinee jackets for her. I was over the moon when she brought her babies into school.

I think the teacher sounds lovely.

LondonMumsie · 20/02/2012 21:47

YABU

TCOB · 20/02/2012 21:50

YABU. That's assuming you're real.

Sevenfold · 20/02/2012 21:51

yabu
what a nice teacher

ThePathanKhansWitch · 20/02/2012 21:53

Yabu.

NorfolkNChance · 20/02/2012 21:54

YABU (if this is real)

I showed my Y6 form when I was expecting, to share and also in a bid to stop the Bulldog played at breaktime as each time I was run into I needed a jab!

They loved finding out more about pregnancy, particularly interested in my running from the room to be sick weirdly...

nobodyspecial · 20/02/2012 21:54

My Mum would have got angry over this back in the 90's.

I however think it's lovely. My 4 year old (then 3) saw scan pics of her brother throughout my pregnancy - I mean from tiny blob stage to human baby. Around the same time her nursery teacher also showed the class a picture of her scan aswell and told them she had a baby in her tummy.

It's no bloody secret. Babies are made in their mother's tummies. You can always talk around the whole point of how they got there if your child is really young and don't want to have the sex talk. My daughter never asked me how the baby got there - and normally she asks the most interesting questions.

sylviassecrets · 20/02/2012 21:55

YABVU and mental, what is it with all these mental posts?!

BubbleBobble · 20/02/2012 21:56

The OP must have a fantastic life if these are the type of worries she has. Wow.

lazylula · 20/02/2012 21:56

The teacher I worked with (who happened to have been my reception teacher) used to use her own family pictures for showing how people grow, toys from her son from baby through to however old he was at the time for the children to order them by age, talked about her son lots with the children. When I returned to work after having ds1 he came into school for an afternoon so I could talk about babies with the children. We definitely didn't keep our private lives 'private'. It is good for children to know that teachers are just 'normal' people with 'normal' lives just like them.

lazylula · 20/02/2012 21:59

Also, the class teacher used to allow a visiting doctor to take a blood specimen infront of the children each year so they could see what happens and not be scred (all hygiene aspects were adhered too, gloves, sharp box bought in by the doctor and blood sample disposed of safely by the doctor). Those were the types of things the children remembered even years later!