TO think Nursery are taking the piss!

[Eden80]

I’ve just been told to drive back and provide nappies as I forgot his bag. Not allowed to leave any on site have to provide them daily. I explained I am now in Work and can’t they use spares to be told we don’t have any spares you need to bring some by 11.
Surely nurseries have to have spare nappies on site?

I think this is completely unreasonable from the nursery and everyone saying about how you agreed to this when you signed up... well we’re all human and we all forget things at times. Not taking his bag as a one off is something minor that the nursery should be able to deal with. I wouldn’t even expect my nursery to contact me if this happened. They would just deal with it and we could discuss it at home time.

Hope you get a suitable reply from the manager.

From OP: “I didn’t agree to this actually as babyroom we could store nappies and there was nothing said about it in the paperwork.” So, you’ve said your child has been at the nursery for at least two years, so not an infant and is no longer in the baby room. It’s possible the nursery doesn’t want to be putting nappies on your child at all and believes they should be out of nappies by now? I’m not at ALL arguing whether they should or not, just wondering if this is why the nursery is being so headstrong about no spare nappies and no storing nappies outside the baby room. You may be in for a battle of a different sort, OP. Good luck!

They prob do have spares. But are so sick of cheeky parents “forgetting” and expecting them to provide that they’ve stopped it.

He is two and a half years old and the majority in that room are in nappies. Manager has called and apologised said they recognise I am not a parent who does this all the time and can understand why I am pissed off. I put some of the excellent points made here in my email so thank you ladies.

In my son's nursery they tell us in advance when his nappy stock is running low so we can restock the next day. They would never leave it until they've all run outband demand them ASAP

Not being able to leave on site is ridiculous!! You should be able to provide a whole pack

Can see why nurseries might have the rule to bring your own nappies but what I find hilarious is that it costs an arm and a leg for a lot of these nurseries and asking for a day allowance on nappies because of an innocent mistake is such a big thing? 😂😂 For how much they charge, they should throw in nappies for free.

Mixed opinions on this, I'm a childminder and have 2 of my own children in nappies (1 baby and 1 in nappies at night only) so I always have nappies in the house. Childminding children bring packs of nappies that I keep here and parents re-stock when I notify them I need more. If for any reason I didn't have some for a child I could manage, but on the other hand if I didn't have a stock of nappies then yes I might use another child's nappy out of their bag but what happens then if that child has several wet wet nappies and needs changing more than you anticipate then you run the risk of that child running out. As a parent I'd be pretty annoyed if I was supplying another child with a nappy and my child ran out. I have to say I'm with nursery on this and yes I'd want nappies bringing. But I can't see why a nursery wouldn't have a few spares hanging around?

I think that's pretty poor. We had to provide nappies, but each child had a drawer so you could send in a pack at the time. Sometimes we forgot to bring a new pack, and DS would come home in a spare. And every time he moved up a size, if we had any left (and when he stopped wearing nappies completely), we gave the spares back to nursery for other children to use when they'd run out. What goes around comes around.

It doesn't matter that parents are CF and that's why they do not have spares. Nappies are an essential, they should have spares, then if they are worried about parents taking advantage they can charge, £1 per nappy if they use any of theirs, they can make money out of it, and it will make parents life easier. What a ridiculous way of running a business!

piscis

Exactly. If I was running a nursery I would for a start have a place to store nappies and secondly have a system where parents pay - probably above market value, for using spare nappies. That would put off the CF's (or at least allow you to make a profit from them) but allow wiggle room for genuine mistakes.

Maybe you aren't the only parent to forget? That would mean the nursery supplying nappies for several children and probably not getting them replaced the next day. Just saying....

My DDs nursery supplies all the nappies. Never had to take any in!

My DD's old nursery provided nappies, wipes, snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner and dietary requirements within the standard cost!
Judging by this thread that's rather unusual, I didn't realise how lucky we were!

My nursery provided all supplies nappies included, however we pay £87 per day for the prilivilage! Yours sounds cheap! I wouldn’t complain!

87 pounds a day!! Is that London? That's miles above the national average.

@woolduvet Wed 14-Nov-18 10:16:15
(Childminder) if you didn't use all your nappies one day I'd chuck one in a box. Soon I had a stash of various sizes.

So you stole nappies provided by parents for their own children so you could create a stash for use in your business?

Terrible policy. Nurseries we’ve used/visited either have their own or ask you to bring a pack and keep them on site.

Yanbu

That is needlessly harsh of the nursery, for what is a mistake on your part.

When a child has run out of nappies at nursery, I know that the nursery just uses another child's nappies, then tells the parent to buy more. The cost of nappies is negligible, and there is give and take.

I don't understand why the nursery doesn't have a space for you to leave a packet of nappies and wipes. Most allow parents to do this, to save you having to remember nappies daily.

I can't believe they don't have any spares at all. What happens if a child has an explosive nappy or two on the last couple of changes of the day.
The nursery mine where at always kept a box of spares or very cheap nappies just to get babies home and dry.

My nursery charges £60 a day & that includes nappies, wipes, breakfast, snack, lunch & tea. We don't have the space to store different packs of nappies for every child & i don't think it's reasonable to expect other parents to buy nappies for children to use.

I’ve always been able to leave a pack on site and also the kids borrow off each other if they’ve run out. It makes a lot more sense than asking parents to drive back or provide daily.

What a ridiculous policy.

What happens if the parent/s are emergency personnel out on a call, or a teacher out with the class on an excursion? A surgeon doing an operation? Does the child just get left in a dirty nappy all day? Totally unacceptable.

We provided a pack of nappies and wipes at a time and then nursery just wrote on his sheet when they were running low. He did once come home in a random nappy brand when they ran out, so I they did have spares and they never charged me or anything.

I just donated half a pack of pull ups as DS is now fully potty trained yay. They were very happy and said yes they always need spares.

Ridiculous for them not to allow you to send nappies in bulk. Of course once in a while even the most organised parent will forget to pack them daily.

Either they should have extras that they charge parents for, or they should allow you to store on site.