To wish the toddler group mums wouldn't spray disinfectant everywhere?

[CailinDana]

I go to a great toddler group on Tuesdays that DS really enjoys. But there are a couple of mums there who regularly get out that dettol aerosol stuff and spray it all over the toys, usually while tidying up, but the children are still around and playing. The toys are often wet with the stuff and the place stinks to high heaven. Sometimes there is so much of it in the air that it makes me cough. I'm not a big fan of disinfectants anyway, I think they're way overused, but AIBU to think that they shouldn't be used while the children are around and if they are then they should be sprayed sparingly and then wiped off?

As a bonus extra, AIBU to think it's not actually necessary to disinfect everything to within an inch of its life, especially as the principle way infections are spread is from child to snotty child?

Bloody hell. I didn't even disinfect DS1's baby toys before passing them on to DS2.

Sounds like you need a rota at tha playgroup for when the toys should be cleaned. I really hate that disinfect everything, and would get annoyed too. If the toys have been mouthed, then maybe yes, but just played with, then it's unnessassary.
It is good for their immiune system to be exposed to germs, otherwise, if they do become ill, they'll be really ill.

kungfu DS2 is due in 2 months and I hadn't even thought of that!

Although realistically new babies don't do much for the first (or second) month and by the time he's big enough to be interested in batting at things he will have been thoroughly immersed in our household mire microflora and fauna anyway, so there's not much point in washing everything really.....

The opposite of clean freak is slob, isn't it