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new childminders house

79 replies

karen912 · 12/01/2016 14:52

AIBU not to feel comfortable sending my children to a house where there is a smell of smoke? Nobody is smoking when they are actually there. It is someone that lives there that smokes in the evening.

So just to be clear - nobody is smoking around them, and they're not in a smokey room as such.. it is just the residual smell from the evening before. (I've read that residual smell and toxins can be harmful).
Myself and my husband don't feel the same about this, so totally open to being told IABU.

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Tatie3 · 13/01/2016 10:10

Childminders are supposed to adhere to a policy of not smoking in the house (or allowing other people too). Could it be that another child she minds has parents who smoke and the smell lingers on their clothes? I have this issue with a little one who has attended for a couple of years, her nappies, clothes, coat everything smells of smoke and other clings to the blankets she uses when she's had a nap here.

karen912 · 13/01/2016 10:28

No it was definitely from her husband smoking in the evenings Tatie3. At least she was honest when I asked.

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Tatie3 · 13/01/2016 10:57

Oops sorry I didn't see your update til after I'd posted. In that case I'm not surprised your unhappy, although it's good of her to be honest her husband shouldn't be smoking in the house if she's a childminder.

blueturtle6 · 13/01/2016 13:13

Change cm, I bought a house off a smoker and gutted it, the walls were gross!

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