to be narked by 30 minutes tv time at nursery?

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My son starts nursery at 1pm twice a week for 5 hours. When he arrives the lights are usually off and the children are sitting and watching tv via the projector. I've been told this usually goes on for half an hour, and is so the children who have been there all day can have a chill time.

I understand that, but I'm not keen either on my son walking into nursery all excited to then sit down and watch Peppa Pig or whatever they've put on. Why can't they just let the kids chill that want to without the TV so that the others can free play with the lights on?

AIBU to be annoyed by this?

I'd be more worried that it was on for longer than 30 min. What happens if you arrive half an hour later... an hour... two...

I've not experimented with that option Beyond, but I have been tempted. We usually turn up 20 mins late so he just watches 10 minutes, so of course it's still on then.

He loves nursery and his key worker, so I will just leave it for now but may put it on any feedback form they send out.

I wonder if they use this tv/downtime for some staff to have their lunch perhaps? I'm not really sure how lunch breaks work/don't work at day nurseries.

My nursery let the children watch tv at a similar time of day. My kids are there from 8-6pm- IMO let the poor bastards watch some tv- it’s not like they wouldn’t watch it if they were at home! They will be at school for a long time....

There was no TV in the nursery my kids went to and I would have been extremely unimpressed if they're used TV to 'babysit' them like that. I put them in nursery partly so they didn't have to be plonked them in front of the TV while I got stuff done.