My 3 year old DS has been at his nursery for 18 months, perfectly happy, settled in no problem and the owner comments regularly on what a loving little boy he is. Perhaps she says that to all parents.... don’t know. However, we gave notice just under a month ago as the 30 hours childcare scheme has come into effect where we live and our current nursery isn’t doing it. It’s the only reason we are changing nurseries, we will save over £700 a month.
When we have notice the owner was horrible, saying where we were going was shit and slagging off the staff there, saying I’ll put her out of business and she’s sure we’ll be back etc. I can handle that, she’s obviously bitter. My AIBU is this, my DS has turned from a happy little boy into a tearful wreck when dropped off in the mornings, he tells me “x has said Santa won’t bring me presents because I’m naughty”, “x gave out treats but not for me because I’m naughty” and similar things. I asked the owner if he’d been behaving himself recently and she said he’d been fine, I wanted to give her an opportunity to say “well hes been playing up” before I mentioned anything about DS comments.
I’m not sure what to do, do I confront them? I feel he’s being treated badly, he’s come home stinking of old wee and with clothes on back to front and that’s never ever happened before. All this has been exclusively since we gave notice. He’s due back in jan for 3 days before he goes to the new place but I’ve taken annual leave and am keeping him at home. I don’t feel I want to pay for those 3 days if he’s being mistreated. Help!