Reception TA let ds drink water bottle without Washing it as promised

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I forgot my ds water bottle in school.I saw the teaching assistant next day who told me she had found it and assured me she would wash it out and replace water.She didn't do this and ds came home with same water ,I knew because I'd put a little lemon in with his water.Just feel let down and like she thought who cares she won't know but because of the lemon I do.Would this concern you?

Jesus wept! 😳 seriously?

you feel let down??? Sorry but that is my first ever

He'll have been drinking out of the water play tray every day since September, so don't worry about him getting dehydrated.

It wouldn't concern me at all; it's one day, it's water, it will be just fine.

What would concern me is the lemon. Ask your dentist if s/he thinks a lemon in a child's water is a great idea for their teeth ... just sitting there, day in and day out...

I really think it would be OK, I usually wash my kids' water bottles out with hot soapy water every night, but a couple of times we've forgotten and they've never got ill or anything. Also the lemon would act as a disinfectant?

I’m struggling to understand what is upsetting? A child drinking day old water, meh, no harm done. If I was the TA I would think you did for suggesting it in the first place and would just say no it will be fine.

Once I made my own kids responsible for their own water bottles they were lucky to be washed once a week. Refilled from the tap at school when they got it out of their bags and realised it was empty/nearly empty from the day before. Quite often on a Monday I would say don’t forget your water bottles and they would still be in the bag from the week before. Seriously, kids don’t die from stuff like this.

If it was a plastic bottle, I would be surprised if you could taste a small amount of lemon over the taste of plastic (the particles of which get into everything)
Non issue (compared with the plastic)

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Oh God. You’re THAT parent.

She's busy
She forgot
It's not her job anyway
Stop putting stuff in his water!

So you forgot your DS's water bottle - which is an acceptable 'failure' in your mind. But the TA forgetting to wash it out concerns you.

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Water bottles are really good breeding grounds for bacteria, so ignore all the 'I don't wash bottles for weeks' idiots, but if your child is healthy you'd have to be very unlucky for one day be a problem. TA said they would do a thing and forgot. It's unfortunate, but not a big deal. Just remember the bottle in future!

I'm trying to imagine the acid look I'd get if I asked my DS's reception TA to do my washing up for me!

It's not their job, and day old water will do no hard whatsoever. (As others have pointed out, lemony water might - too much acid.). Even if she set out with good intentions to do you a favour and rinse it, the fact it slipped off her list is hardly something to get wound up about.

Also as others have pointed out, reception kids are minging anyway, and will be exchanging germs in far more creative ways.

No, not a big problem in the scheme of things.

YABU. I managed to get through school just fine without being in instant reach of a bottle of water and I’m sure many posting here managed the same. Bottled water companies know how to market themselves, I’ll give them that. I personally would have been grateful to be able to drink manky lemon and potentially poisonous day old bacteria-filled germy water. Kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it..

Lemon on water is really bad for teeth.

Get a f....ing grip! Do you know how old the water is that you drink? You know, that 50k year old water from underground?

You do realise the plastic bottle you put your pfb’s water in is much more toxic than day old water?

Jeezo. Have my first ever

In the nicest possible way, get a grip!!!

YABVVVVVVVU! As if the TA is going to have time to wash your DC water bottle out because you forgot to take another one!

Thanks for all your responses.I had a little bit of a giggle at some and feel a little silly now.It was just that she offered to do it without me asking.I would have happily done it myself .@ all who wondering why lemon I don't usually put any lemon but ds has been under the weather and not drinking as much so added it for extra flavour and vit c, probably won't be doing it again though!

I am sure she didn't do it deliberately. I am guessing she forgot! I really wouldn't waste any time thinking about it.

Perhaps she did change the water but the bit of lemon didn't come out of the narrow neck of the bottle.

Perhaps she did change the water but the bit of lemon didn't come out of the narrow neck of the bottle.

Water bottles are really good breeding grounds for bacteria, so ignore all the 'I don't wash bottles for weeks' idiots

So is your dishcloth and a thousand other things around your living environment. Yet people are pretty hardy in the whole and rarely get sick. The joys of the vast majority of common bacteria being harmless in everyday situations, stomach acid and immune systems. You are probably at more risk of illness from shaking someone’s hand.

You do realise people go trekking for substantial periods of time without giving their water containers a hot water soapy scrub out. Again, vast majority of people would be just fine with such things.