DD had her 2 year check up yesterday. We're a bookish pair and she has a small bookcase in the sitting room full of stories, mainly from those sets 10 or more for 10. The health visiter took one look at it and said, quite snippily, that she didn't need the Bookstart pack because she had enough books so she had no intention of giving one.
AIBU to be annoyed about this? We're on a very low income (part time work on just above minimum wage) and we live in a fairly deprived area, so I would imagine DD should have automatically been given a pack if there were any T&Cs - after reading the information on the Bookstart website, I thought that every child got one anyway, no matter what their circumstances. Plus I'd told DD that she'd be getting storybooks and she was really excited.
One more point. If I did phone to ask for the books, I'd ideally want them to be dropped off to me because I wouldn't want to spend 4 on a day ticket to go and get them. As mentioned above, I don't have much money. I rarely use public transport because I live within roughly 30 minutes walking distance of most places we want to go to, so it wouldn't be a case of me easily being able to call past the HV office, which is about 6 miles away.
So go on - am I being entitled or should I phone up to ask for the books?