To want to take a bottle of water on the nursery trip?

[Kyrptonite]

Bit of a random one! I'm 28 weeks pregnant, work in a nursery and we are going on a trip Wednesday on a coach. It's only an hour/hour and a half away but this pregnancy has been making me feel sick even on short car journeys so I am dreading the coach trip.

I asked today if I can take a bottle of water to drink on the coach if needed. Apparently I'm not because then the kids might want a drink too. I understand this but I'm hormonal, stroppy and really don't want to be sick on the bloody coach!

I also have SPD so the idea of wandering around a sodding aquarium all day with no chance to sit down may be adding to my stroppiness about this!

Am I being unreasonable and do I need to suck it up and accept its not a huge journey and if I'm sick I will just have to deal with it?

[Fakebook]

How are you supposed to deny toddlers and pre schoolers water? 1-1.5hrs isn't a lot to an adult, but it's flipping long in baby time. If they can't be arsed to change a nappy or take a child to the loo, then quite frankly, they shouldn't be taking them on a trip. 40 children on an outing, they'll spend 70% of the time in the toilets no doubt. And an aquarium of all places. It's going to be hot and sticky in there. Good luck to them.

[MidniteScribbler]

If my son fell down and bumped his knee going to the toilet on the bus, I'd think nothing of it. If my son got heat exhaustion from being denied wateron a hot day, then heads would roll.

[curlew]

Of course people have different levels of thirst! But do you really think that everybody should have completely free access to water at all times, whatever they are doing? Do you think it's a really bad idea to say to a child- we'll be there in 10 minutes, you can have a drink then?

They're not trekking across the Sahara- they are in a probably air conditioned coach. Frankly, apart from anything else, I would rather my child waited for a drink than he had was taken to the loo on a moving coach.

[curlew]

Oh, don't be silly. Heat exhaustion? Because he went a whole hour without a drink??????

As I said, well done, water marketers. Actually, we'll done Nestlé- they ar one of the biggest ones.

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

There's a major difference between 10 minutes and 90! And not all coaches have working air conditioning and I assume they can't open windows because of the toddlers?

[curlew]

Well, if they had a drink before they set off, I presume they wouldn't be desperately dehydrated within minutes of getting on the bus?

Most coaches that transport children are air conditioned, because they have to be newer ones that have proper seat belts.

[Viviennemary]

I don't agree with constant access to water if there is not constant access to a loo as well for small children. But there is no question that you should take your water. Just tell them it's medicinal. Whoever planned the trip should have made it to somewhere a bit nearer.

[Kyrptonite]

Wow I didn't expect so many replies! Kids get in at 8:30 to get on coach at 9 so will ensure everyone has a drink and trip to the loo before getting on the coach.

Water is ready to go in my bag for tomorrow

[MidniteScribbler]

Where I live, it can get to 40 degrees on a hot day. Damn straight I'm not telling anyone they can't have a drink of water when they want it.

Btw, we don't allow packaged water. Reusable bottles and water taps here. No money in the hands of the evil corporates.

[curlew]

You can only hope that the children aren't reduced to little piles of their dessicated chemical components by the time you get there...........

If they are, I suppose you can drop the piles into the aquarium and see if they reconstitute.............

[MidniteScribbler]

Kids having a drink before they get on the bus are going to be more likely to need to use the toilet midway through the trip than children allowed to sip during the trip who will then need to go after the trip.

[curlew]

"Where I live, it can get to 40 degrees on a hot day. Damn straight I'm not telling anyone they can't have a drink of water when they want it."


Well, that is a bit different to a warm day in Basingstoke........!

[KentishWine]

But do you really think that everybody should have completely free access to water at all times, whatever they are doing?

Yes, absolutly 100% yes. Why on earth not?

[ArabellaBeaumaris]

Are you the OP whose manager is her MIL?

[curlew]

It most certainly didn't!

I just think that this idea that we have to drink all the time is a fantastic marketing coup. It is perfectly fine for a person of any age in normal health not in 40 degree heat to go without a drink for an hour.

I notice that nobody is addressing the side issue of children needing to be unstrapped to go to the loo in a coach.

[MidniteScribbler]

FFS, they're children, not prisoners of war. Let them have a drink of water if they want one.

[curlew]

I refuse to believe that anyone in normal health who had had breakfast, with a drink, then another drink before setting off on a trip at 9 in the morning,would be in even the remotest discomfort if they then had to wait an hour before their next drink. Unless they are in 40 degrees of heat, obviously. And I would be amazed if a coach considered suitable to transport nursery aged children did not have air con.

Presumably your children do not wake up parched with thirst after 10 hours sleep? Or do you wake them every 30 minutes through the night to ensure optimal hydration?

Whether it's remotely sensible to take children this age such a long way on a trip is another question.

[ohnoudidnt]

Yanbu take some water

[trinity0097]

I am a teacher and been on numerous trips, the kids hardly bat an eyelid at us bringing out a decent packed lunch rather than the school offering, or having drinks/choc/cake etc when they don't!

[McNewPants2013]

If my child wants a drink, they can have a drink.

What gives a nursey worker the right to refuse a child a sip of water, even more to say to a pregnant women she cant have any either. I think some one os on a power trip.

[curlew]

I do find this thing about water fascinating. Nobody would say that a child should be able to eat a sandwich wherever and whenever they want, and their human rights would be infringed if the teacher said "no wait til break, you can eat your sandwich then." Nobody thinks you should be able to eat in the theatre, the classroom, the library, in church, in shops- anywhere you like. But somehow drinking is different. Why is this?