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Original poster

To bin pooey pants?

43 replies

TheBleedinObvious · 19/08/2013 01:21

Inspired by another thread.

I used to work in a nursery and whenever a child pooed their pants we would bin the pants rather than hand them back to the parents.

Was this right? Or would you have preferred to have them handed to you in a bag to be washed?

OP posts:

Rummikub · 19/08/2013 01:21

Bin them pls!

FlatsInDagenham · 19/08/2013 01:22

God no, yanbu.

Bin them.

Monty27 · 19/08/2013 01:23

Bin.

oohnewshoes · 19/08/2013 01:28

I would ask the parent tbh. Depends on there circumstances really.

I always dumped them but made a point of buying asda and primark for that reason during the training stage.

Some kids pants can be quite expensive ie the 3 pack of girls boxers I bought last week on next.

Original poster

TheBleedinObvious · 19/08/2013 01:35

Glad to hear most agree. I was worrying I had caused offence.

It was in a very disadvantaged area but we did put clean (often new pants) on the child once cleaned up, and didnt expect/mention it to the parents if they didnt return them.

OP posts:

musicposy · 19/08/2013 01:39

God yes, just bin them. I bin DH's on a regular basis!

mathanxiety · 19/08/2013 01:52

Oh yes, bin every time. Life is too short to be spending time cleaning poo out of clothes. Very nice idea to have a stash of replacements. Parent probably appreciated not having a 'little gift' from school at pick up time.

NatashaBee · 19/08/2013 01:56

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Casmama · 19/08/2013 02:04

My ds's nursery used to put them in a nappy bag which I would put straight in the bin. Totally agree that life is too short to be washing poo out of pants.

MammaTJ · 19/08/2013 03:36

Bin them. My DS still has the odd accident and they are binned rather than washed.

reddaisy · 19/08/2013 04:44

I used to wash DD's and then I realised that I could just buy lots and lots of cheap knickers instead and it made life a lot easier! But check with the parents first, there was a time when I couldn't have easily afforded another packet of knickers.

jacks365 · 19/08/2013 07:18

I wash them it really wouldn't occur to me to bin them . It's not a cost thing or anything I just don't have a problem with dealing with them.

gintastic · 19/08/2013 07:21

Preschool bins mine after being begged not to send them home! I think they send everyone else's home though...

Stressedtothehilt · 19/08/2013 07:23

This happened to me last term! Dds favourite princess knickers were binned without asking! I'd rather they bagged them then checked with parents!

BrianButterfield · 19/08/2013 07:25

I was greeted at nursery the other day with "do you want his shorts back?". I figured if they had to ask then I certainty didn't! When DS was a baby they bagged up dirty vests etc but I'm happy to be asked every time now.

flyingwidow · 19/08/2013 07:31

I used to bring the pants home, tip the poo into the loo and then wash them. Really not that traumatic. I personally think it is wasteful to chuck them- and to be honest a little precious not just to flush the poo and wash the pants!

(we've all dealt with worse- remember the out the armpits poo during the early days...!!)

Jan49 · 19/08/2013 07:31

I'd rather have them back. It would never occur to me to throw something away rather than wash it. I'm surprised the nursery thought that was acceptable. But I suppose if it happened frequently and parents were unhappy about it, they'd complain to the nursery and the policy would have been changed.

iamadoozermum · 19/08/2013 07:44

Our nursery would bag them with all the poo still in them and give you the bag at pick up. If the poo-cident had occurred at the beginning of the session then the pants were vile by pick-up time so we'd just bin them. The first time, we hadn't realised this was what they had done, we assumed they would have at least flushed away the excess and got quite a surprise when we opened up the bag to wash the pants - the smell!!!!!

LittleMachine · 19/08/2013 09:48

I double nappy bag pants and knickers and send them home. But I flush the actual poo away.
I wouldn't send home the poo.

Sometimes parents ask me to just throw them, and if the child is clearly unwell with diarrhoea, then I throw them away and explain why.

mycatlikestwiglets · 19/08/2013 09:53

I would be annoyed at the nursery binning them without checking with me first - dealing with pooey pants really isn't that big a deal to me, I just rinse them off and stick them in the machine. Mind you, DS is very particular about fashion and will only wear Thomas pants so it could get very expensive if we had to buy news ones every time he had an accident.

insancerre · 19/08/2013 09:55

We don't have any sluice facilities or washing machine in the nursery where I work so I bag them up and offer them to the parents.
They always say to bin them
I don't bin them automatically after one parent years ago complained to the management that I had binned the pooey pants. The owner had to replace them so I wasn't popular.
Some people find anything to complain about.
Now I bag them up after rinsing them in the loo. Tip out the excess, and hold under the water as you flush the loo. Then double bag in a nappy sack.

BoozyBear · 19/08/2013 09:55

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BrokenSunglasses · 19/08/2013 09:58

When I worked at a pre school we used to double bag the pants with nappy sacks and offer them back to the parent unless the parent had told us not to bother. We would have flushed big lumps of easily removable poo, but wouldn't have made that much effort to remove poo. That's the parents job, our job was to get the child clean and sorted as quickly as possible so that we could get back to the main room and be with all the children.

WithConfidence · 19/08/2013 09:58

I wouldn't want them if he was ill but I'd just wash them otherwise. It's just a few pounds for new pants from the supermarket but atm I can't afford to waste even a few pounds.

WhispersOfWickedness · 19/08/2013 10:03

Bin here! It was the only thing that kept my sanity during potty training

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