Nursery taking kids to soft play?

[DoctorZog]

I was at our local, small soft play earlier with my 3 year old and baby. I was pretty surprised when two nursery nurses arrived (in branded nursery clothing) with 8-10 kids, aged 3-4 years I'd guess. Is this a thing? I kind of feel like soft play is something you'd do when you're a parent / carer / babysitter, perhaps a childminder, but I kind of feel like if you're paying professionals with actual qualifications to look after your kids, they should be doing slightly more interesting / challenging stuff with them? Obviously they're still little and it's all about play at this age, but they could be doing messy play, playing outside etc. And to be honest, I find it challenging to just supervise one kid at soft play, so not sure how they manage with a whole group! I dunno, maybe I'm just being a grump! Not my kids so none of my business really, but would be interested to hear other people's views.

I wouldn't like it at all, mostly from a safety perspective. I struggle to keep track of two children in soft play, imagine trying to keep an eye on that many at a time.

My sons nursery was above a soft play center (same owners). The children on occasion would go down into the soft play as a treat/end of term parties etc.

Son loved it there and never once was upset to have to walk through the soft play without going on it to go to nursery.

Yeah, you clearly know nothing about childminders 🙄

Really good for gross motor skill development. Sounds a great laugh!