About sending kids to nursery when there’s an Amber weather warning?

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Would you be inclined to keep at home? Just interested. YABU to send and YANBU to keep home.

Also, most people whose children go to nursery don't have the choice of just keeping them at home if they fancy it.

Dont have any choice really as he goes in when we work.

My house is just as hot as nursery and their garden is much shadier. Plus for many people nursery is essential child care to enable them to work.

I'm sending mine in. I don't get a day off work so would have to take the day off to keep them off.. they would call me to pick up if there was any issues.

Nursery has air con, I don’t.

Also, I have to work to pay for extortionate nursery fees (which are charged whether or not they go in…)

Will your house be cooler than the childcare building.

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The red warning was a bit different, as I was at work so had no choice (and felt bloody awful) but I am on a six week holiday, so they could stay home.

I think I’ll opt to send them just for the morning when it’s a bit cooler.

Love it when posters assume everyone have the luxury of outside space for their kids to splash around in a paddling pool all day.

As per PP, nursery has air con so DS1 will definitely be going! Particularly as I'll be hunkering down with baby DS2 so being home would be no fun for him.

When is the amber warning meant to be for anyway? What part of the country? I’m just looking where I live in London and it’s ‘only’ going to be 32 or so. That doesn’t seem like a very odd temperature for august to me.

Gosh, absolutely not. I’m just feeling guilty. I really did feel rubbish last time, partly because of the kids but also felt awful for the staff.

I don’t mean you btw OP with the paddling pool comment. It was another poster that suggested it as an option on page 1.

Cross post, sorry

It depends on the setting, as PPs have said my DCs nursery has air con so they're better off there than at home.
I'm also working so juggling a hot, annoyed, bored toddler while im also hot and annoyed isn't appealing.

If the setting didn't have air con and was going to be uncomfortably hot I'd reevaluate.

My DS's nursery sent us all an email with risk assessment and details of how they were handling the hot weather - fans, keeping blinds down, playing outside only in the shade, lots of activities involving water and ice etc.

In the last heatwave DS reported they all played sleeping lions while the staff misted water on them and had the fans going, which i thought was a fairly ingenious way of getting a room of preschoolers to stay cool!

I'll be sending him in again this time. I don't think he'll be any better off at home and this allows me to focus on my 3 month old, who really needs to be kept inside all working day when it's that hot.

An Amber warning? Seriously?

No of course not.

Yes! They have air con though so better off there.

I sent dd when was the 2 hot days on 18/19th July to school. It’s shady and they did water play /games. She’s 5

some stayed at home. She would have moaned and be a pain all day where at school she had fun with friends

so yes I would def send now.

Not quite sure why this is even a question... do you keep them off if there's snow, or wind or...?

I kept at home on the one very hot day in July (40c) but actually she would have been okay, in the morning at least.

It didn't cross my mind to keep her at home this week. It only gets to 30c max where we are, and I didn't think that was too extreme.

I don't think 30-32 degrees is so extreme to be honest (but I come from a hot country, where people function for much much longer periods at much higher temperatures). Also, my child's nursery is cooler than my house.
If I keep him at home he'd spend the day indoors, in a hot house, watching tv while I work.
If he goes to nursery, he'll play with water in the mostly shaded garden, eat ice cream and have fun.

Our nursery is warm inside when it’s snowing, windy or rainy, and they can wear snowsuits or wet weather gear to have garden time.

Like a lot of UK buildings, the nursery building is not set up for sustained high temperatures. The air-con is the inefficient, portable unit stuck in a window gap sort – it gets hugely warm inside, more so the more children attend. They can’t go out and play as often as usual because it’s just too hot.

At home, it might not be much cooler but there would just be me and her in a room, vs her and 20 other children plus staff. And I’m much less exciting than nursery so she’s less likely to run herself ragged and flop from the heat.

Another whose nursery has air con. I could keep her home, but she only attends two days a week while I’m on maternity leave and in this heat I really can’t have 12 week old DS outside, so she’d be stuck indoors. Pretty miserable for her, on balance I think she’s better at nursery (plus the heat is making DS grumpy and I feel guilty when she has to listen to lots of screaming!)

My son was much happier at nursery. They managed to keep the rooms very cool, and spent much of the day doing water play in one way or another. Our house is miserably hot and impossible to cool down so he was much less agitated at nursery.

If you can afford to not work, and you’d prefer to keep them home, then I’d keep them home.
If you’d prefer to send them in, then send them, the nursery will call if there’s a problem.
Neither is unreasonable