To wonder why Im filling in so many bloody accident forms??

[vanillaskinnylatte]

My little boy is 16mths old and has been at nursery full time since Jan.

He is VERY boisterous.

I fill in accident forms at least once a week. Last week I filled in three. Obviously this pisses me right off and I wonder what the fu*k these people are doing.

He's had maybe 2 bad bangs to the head there - and I mean that he has had a large visible bump when I have collected him. Other times its small bumps on face/head or red marks from falls and trips.

Now I know he will hurt himself and its part of growing up. We cant protect them all the time.But seeing as Im paying a considerable amount of money, I kind of expect this not to happen quite so often!

And its the nonchalant attitude about it as well. The staff are good and he loves them, but when he hurts himself and I have to sign the bloody form, they dont seem that bothered. They moan and say "he's too fast" or "he doesnt sit still for a second" etc. They say that when he bangs his head on the floor he laughs and its all so funny! They say what a strong boy he is for not crying. I tell them he may not cry but its not good for him to be banging his head. They say nothing and close rank.

They dont seem to take it seriously at all! And quite often they havent really seen whats happened. Theyve only heard him cry and then reacted to his injury. ALSO, they tell me he's banged his head etc and show me the bump/bruise...but then later that night I see other marks. So they clearly havent really seen the accident as it has happened. This worries me.

Is this kind of thing normal?? Do all babies this age have so many knocks at nursery?

AIBU to speak to the manager tomorrow. I have lots of photographs to show her!

He loves the nursery but Im starting to think he needs to be going elsewhere...

I feel that YABU. I have a boisterous son of the same age. We sign a crazy number of forms. Every day one week, twice in one day. I don't blame them. He thinks he can do more than he can and attacks life full force. Like other posters have said I barely register these days what happened and regularly joke they should just laminate a head injury card for him. Most things are accidents that if they happened at home I wouldn't think twice. The accidents he's had at home have been worse IMO.

However, if you have concerns about the level of care or about the age appropriateness of the room or toys, then you should raise this with them.

YABU.

I had to sign accident most days until dd1 was in year 3. Mind you she takes after me and could fall over nothing.
The worst week was when she did an school holiday scheme where there was her and 5 others from 10 to 12 and she came out with 8 notes.

On the other hand dd2 and ds have had hardly any.

It also provides evidence in the rare event that a child does have problems with mobility, balance etc.. We can then look back and give a detailed account of the type of accident occurring and frequency rather than a vague "well he's always been a bit clumsy".

I'm not suggesting that this might be the case for your child, but one day you may be very glad you filled in all those forms.

Oh, and pity the poor staff! They have to fill in the forms each time - all you have to do is sign

The nursery aren't going to follow him around and hover all day - it just won't happen when there are multiple children to watch and lots of other tasks to do.

However, you should check what their staffing levels are like - if your ds is under 2 then he has to be in a 1:3 ratio, whereas the over 2s can be in a 1:4. So if there are 12 children in the group, all over 2 except your ds, then they need 4 staff (not 3 as they would if they were all 2) as there has to be one for your ds and two other kids to be 1:3, then the other 9 children still need 3 staff to provide a minimum 1:4.

I would ask the nursery if, since they are effectively one staff member over, they could use the extra person to keep more of an eye on him.