To think this woman should not have brought her child to the Physio Gym

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DD (16) had physio today where she goes into a physio gym with lots of equipment for people who are in rehabilitation for injuries.

Today DD went into for her session, upon arrival their was an 8ish girl sitting in front of the mirror (which DD uses to check she has the right alignment) sitting on the balance equipment that DD needs to use for her exercises and using the other as something to put her colouring book on. She had all her colouring pens scattered all over the floor etc. This meant DD could only do half her exercises, bearing in my mind I am paying for DD to have use of this.

Aibu to think the mother should have left her daughter at home or at least told her to get off the equipment??

Staff should have been all over this. Scattered pens = horrid trip/fall potential

Yanbu

YANBU

Yanbu at all. Yes the child wasn't playing up, but she shouldn't have been on the gym equipment at all!
She stopped your daughter from doing her exercises and what if she had had an accident whilst not being supervised?
I also don't blame op's daughter for not saying anything.
I'm in my 30's and i'm weary of doing it!
Some parents ( and only a select few!) will bite your head off for merely suggesting their precious child move.

YANBU It is not a crèche!! I very much doubt that their insurance would cover any injury sustained by or caused by this child.

I think that you or DD could have just asked the girl to move, or asked a member of staff to ask the girl to move.

What time was it? If it was inside school hours then what was the child even doing there - maybe she was a patient and waiting to be seen by a physio / doctor or someone.

It all sounds like a bit of a non event TBH.

I wouldn't want people to not be able to access medical services like physio due to childcare responsibilities - she wasn't actually doing any harm was she, sitting quietly with her pens, someone on the staff should have asked her to pick the pens up and sit in the corner or something, and like I say, maybe she was a patient herself.

I was an inpatient in hospital at a bit older than that and had to go do physio with groups of older people and stuff.

The staff WBVU to allow her to use very expensive equipment as a table to colour in on, not to mention the health and safety issues. If she had to be there then she should have been sitting at the side.

OP I would be voicing your concerns to the staff. Your DD could have asked the girl to move, but the girl should not have been there (in the middle) in the first place.