to think if your 3 year old escapes from nursery, does a 10 minute walk to get home on his own and is crying because he wants to "come home" ...

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Then the natural reaction to this is not to strap him in the car and drive him straight back to nursery??

Daily Mail story today ... not going to link it for fear of upsetting people

I might . So that I could lose the bloody plot with nursery and never send them there again.

I would never let my kid go back there!!! Haven’t read the story, but how on earth can a 3 year old escape nursery unnoticed?!?

Of course it’s okay to return the child to nursery.what are you suggesting?
Then have a vigorous convo about perimeter security and staff vigilance

I think I'd phone them to say he was safe and save the losing the plot thing for another day when ds didn't have to witness it.

Well in all fairness the mother took him back as she naturally assumed they were looking for him and would want to know he was safe and well. A reasonable reaction. It was only upon arriving back that she realised they didn't even know he was missing.

If I were in that situation, I would most probably drive straight there too and try to understand what just happened or how it happened. Shocking!

I would never take them back there again as obviously they are not in a secure and supervised environment. Bloody hell, I'd be livid!

I would be timing how long it takes for them to notice and then absolutely hit the roof and never send my child back

I have a 3 yr old. No way would I have taken him back.

I think I'd be tempted to wait and see if and when they called me to say he was missing, its bad enough the child got out but they hadn't even noticed?!

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I completely disagree that it was the obvious thing to do! A phone call is way quicker than calming your crying toddler down, calming yourself down, persuading him to get in the car and then driving him back there.

I would have seen how long it took them to notice & call me...

...in the meantime DS would be cuddled but also told off for leaving on his own.

Then I’d report to the relevant authority and look for a new nursery.

When they did get in touch they’d be under no illusion about how fucking incompetent they were.

How the bloody fuck did they get out?!
DS is Sen and like bloody Houdini but even then he's never made it past the double locked fire doors, or out of reception, or even into the main school without someone noticing!

I took 3 year old DD back to nursery when she escaped as I didn't want her to think she would be rewarded for coming home. She was a great escapologist in her younger years. I still don't really know how she managed to jump out of her bedroom window at 2 even though we had window restrictor locks

No way would I be sending him back.

As an aside, Daily Mail links don't tend to upset MNetters as it seems to be the most widely read paper amongst members.

I think a minority get a bit arsy if you don't make it clear you've linked to the DM though.