To be sick of my work colleagues attitudes towards this new member of staff?

[IsEatBedThyme]

I work in a private nursery and 2 weeks ago a new member of staff started. Lovely person, very good with the children, fully qualified, fantastic sense of humour, has a penis. Shock horror!

I appear to be the only member of staff who doesn't give a flying fuck that it's a man. The children all love him. He makes up funny stories, dances with them, sings silly songs.

Why are people so bothered about men working with children? Is it really so odd? For what it's worth, he has 5 children of his own including twins so it's not like he isn't experienced!

My other colleauges are saying some really nasty things. He shouldn't be allowed to take the children toilet or change nappies, he shouldn't be left on his own with the children, he must be gay (what the fuck!?!?).

It's disgusting. He's a lovely guy. The funniest part is, his name is common on both men and women, so when we were told he was starting, we were only told his name and not that it was a man. The shock on everyones faces when he was introuded was hilarious. It didn't bother me one

[StatisticallyChallenged]

Same here Laguna, DH is a CM although we have expanded. there's something like 400 childminders registered in our city and only single digit men- and several of them part of husband and wife teams. Solo male CMs...I'm only aware of 3.

[Dollymixtureyumyum]

Anyone remember the friends episode with the male nanny!!!!
My DS loves the man who works at his nursery and all the best teachers I had a primary school where both men

[Creatureofthenight]

I actually meant we as in decent rational humans, not women.

[LagunaBubbles]

Statisticalychallenged, think Ive maybe spoken to you before about this, although I have name changed since then (in honour of a holiday to California )? Im in Scotland.

[LagunaBubbles]

If you are interested Stat I can PM you a link to my DHs website to