Accident at nursery

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My DD age 3 had an accident at nursery and has a big red graze that is starting to bruise on her back. Nursery did tell me about it as it happened as I was arriving and DD was in floods of tears when I arrived. I didn’t see it happen but nursery staff said she sat down and scraped it on the cabinet. But DD said one of the children pushed her hard into the corner. Would you question this

Accidents happen unfortunately, if staff saw and noticed and offered first aid before you left then they’ve done their job. Your poor DD I hope she’s feeling better soon.

Awwww poor thing yes I would mention it at next drop off, you can say it without sounding like you don’t believe them.

I would say, just wondering if anyone saw exactly what happened as DD says she was pushed??

Toddlers can do these things but if it’s true then the staff can keep an eye out for any patterns and address it if needed.

Depends. At age 3, there's a good chance that staff didn't actually see how it happened so they may have told you what they did see.

If you have no concerns with their care apart from this then I would probably leave it this time but be more alert to any more mentions of pushing and any more injuries.

They're potentially just playing it down a bit, or maybe they didn't see the push. It's hard keeping your eyes everywhere in a nursery but I wouldn't say it really matters exactly how it happened unless you think it's part of a wider consistent thing happening

My brother is 42 and he swears that I pushed him down the stairs when he was 3. I did not push him down the stairs, he fell. 3-year-olds are not reliable narrators. I wouldn't mention it unless you have other concerns.

The number of times my friend's six and three year olds have tripped over my feet when I'm stood or sat next to them, or they've run into me, or we've been playing and they topple over and knock something when I'm close by and then it's "Auntie GMPAC made me fall over". When often I was literally just telling them to slow down, watch where they're going, stop doing XYZ...

My daughter is obsessed with telling me a little boy at nursery pushed her over.

He did push her over. Once. In July.

Agree with others, if you don't have any other concerns, leave it. What if he did push her over, anyway? It'll be too late to do anything and they do push and shove and carry on at that age anyway. The perils of shoving a horde of tiny idiots in a room together.

To a 3yo, a "push" can be anything from a full 2-handed shove, right down to "someone accidentally lightly brushed against their arm."

That being said, I'd maybe ask at drop-off tomorrow, just as a query. Just remember, as in all things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

This! I worked in a nursery and little children often misinterpret any contact as being hit or pushed. It may be another child brushed past her and caused her to lose her balance and fall over. So in her mind she may have been pushed, she is telling the truth. But it does not mean that is what happened.