Aibu to think that if you are paying for your kid to go to a place where they can play in a soft play and play with a few toys, you might expect those toys to be cleanish ?
Clearly you can't prevent the child playing nearby from sneezing over a toy but I'm talking about ground in grime and grot.
Went to a soft play party recently and baby caught impetigo. It was literally the only place we'd been. Dr said to wash his toys as it can be spread that way. Baby had a course of yummy banana antibiotics and I put it down as one of those things and will happily return to the soft play in question I guess. Basically no hard feelings.
But today we went to a local play cafe which prides itself on its play area. It's more upmarket than the other play place and seems to try to appeal to mums who go for coffee and lunch (if you know what I mean, it's a fancier menu rather than just juice and nuggets). You have to pay a small fee for your kid to play.
So i put baby in, and this place is only a couple of years old, and I couldn't help but notice that the soft jigsaw tile floor was filthy and ripped, even though kids are supposed to take off their shoes. I saw a mum in there with shoes on.
Almost every toy was tired and worn or broken. None of the battery operated stuff worked. My little tot was jabbing away at the buttons looking disappointed that they weren't working. The walls were grubby and stained with dark marks.
I thought about it and realised another nice coffee play place I'd been to also had a lot of broken toys.
What's this all about? How hard would it be to run a hot cloth about the place once a week? We're talking about a pretty small surface area- the place is tiny. Like, half of your living room floor tiny.
I don't think little kids are particularly dirty or destructive. It just seems that the play area had never been cleaned and the toys really uncared for.
Just seems so sad. My local free, toy library clean all toys that go out.
Ah well.