To expect nursery to clean DCs face?

[Dirtyfacebaby]

Exactly what the thread title says.

AIBU to expect nursery staff to keep my child's face relatively clean? Every single day when I collect her she looks absolutely feral. Face and hair covered in dried snot and god knows what else.

I don't just mean a little bit dirty, I mean she looks like a street urchin.

@NuffSaidSam my point was I remember them getting mucky, and either cleaning them up myself or watching nursery staff do it (I often volunteered when kids were small) and they definitely cleaned them up but some were absolute snot monsters who didn't stay clean for more than 5 mins.

Not suggesting that they shouldn't be kept clean, just that I've witnessed kids who just don't seem to stay clean in spite of best attempts otherwise.

I work in a preschool (so kids aged 3-5) and clean everyone's face across the day but especially before they go home. I even run a brush through hair. Or if an outfit was particularly filthy I'd change the child into something fresh in case they were going somewhere other than home. I think it's pretty unacceptable if your baby is coming out actually dirty every day.

Nursery almost always have my DC's face clean at pick up and have brushed and redone her hair. They've usually had their outfit changed if it got messy at lunch or during the day.

I would expect the children to be returned to parents clean. As a childminder I used to wipe faces and hands whenever needed throughout the day, including after every meal. Older / more capable toddlers used to wipe their own with a baby wipe. This was partly to keep my home and their toys clean - who Wants tomato sauce wiped over everything? I confess I wasn’t too fussed about dirty clothes - kids having fun get dirty and the parents knew that. Wet clothes were changed and snotty noses were always wiped.
parents still called me out on it. I had one child often collected early during naptime with no notice and mum would complain if he had sleep in his eyes (he often got yellow crust in the corner) so I even used to wipe his eyes on the way downstairs from his cot!
Definitely bring it up.

Huge 🙄

Yes, a snotty nose won’t cause a child a lifetime of pain and heartache but it’s disgusting and lazy not to bother. Not to mention really uncomfortable and sore for the child. Imagine having a crusty snotty nose all day. Not nice eh.

Oh god so much hyperbole. ‘The ordeal of being away from their mothers’ 🙄

My son absolutely loves his two days at nursery, he has never cried on drop off and has so much fun. It’s hardly the workhouse, it’s a place of happiness and joy.

Nope.

Our daughter comes back immaculate from the childminder. We appreciate the care so much.

🤣🤣🤣 you must have had some smart babies

They are expected to wipe their own faces, put their shoes away etc on their own from about 1.5 in our nursery. Putting on their coat or shoes isn’t a high expectation for the older groups at nursery.

Haha seriously?? These workers are paid a horrible wage to nurture our children and you think a dirty face is disgusting? Grow up. Kids get messy, that's half the fun of being a kid!

You grow up ! Have some standards, seriously.

I agree that wages paid for nursery staff are poor but that's an entirely separate conversation to whether it's acceptable to leave my child all day with food, snot and dirt on her hands and face.

As someone else stated on the thread, if I took her into nursery each morning in the state they send her home in I'm sure there would would some kind of referral being made to SS for negligent or neglectful parenting.