Cartoons at after school club?

[Maxmaxmax]

My little boy just started at nursery school this week. We are not new to the nursery setting and have been at a private one for 2 years, but this is the first week at the nursery of a local school. The school is highly rated from what I can tell. All parents and local teachers speak highly of it, and all has been good so far in the usual nursery day. However when I went to collect him today from after school club I found them all sat on a mat watching disney cartoons. I asked if this was usual, and was told quite defensively that it was only on a friday, and it was just a little song.

Am I being naive or old fashioned to expect more than this at an after school club? If they're interested in music then why not encourage the children to play music, or to have a dance party. Not just sit there idly watching the screen.

It is also a very sunny day, and all other children were out in the school's beautiful gardens.

AIBU, or should we be expecting a bit more?

How long had he been at nursery that day?

I've worked at a school breakfast club and occasionally filled in at their after school club too. At ours, they had a drink and a biscuit then could play with toys, do crafts etc etc. We would also sometimes put cartoons on too.
Some of the new reception children, well and the other children to be honest, were at breakfast club from 7.45am then all day in school having to concentrate and follow instructions and then some went straight to the after school club. Some until 6pm! That's a long day for little ones! Of course they should have the option to settle down in the sofas and watch a bloody cartoon!

I'm sure someone somewhere, maybe even you, would have be as quick to tell me just to stop using the play area if I don't like how it's being run....

My children get very overstimulated by certain TV shows. The results can last for actual weeks. So yes, free childcare wasn't worth a detrimental effect on my children. It doesn't work for us so I changed what we do. Didn't complain to IKEA, didn't make a fuss about the care at the free childcare, we just stopped using it. It does work for many other families and that's fine, you do you, am not gonna come on the internet and mock you for it as I feel like parenting is hard enough without trolling one another.

I completely agree with you that not all cartoons are the same (e.g. paw patrol 😬😬) - and yes not all children are the same, and not everyone is in the same situation and even if they are they prioritise different things, and what works for them.

You might want to unclench a bit.

Oh the horror, that a small child might ‘idly’ sit watching 20 minutes of tv…🙄

DD's school always did movie "night" on a Friday at ASC, especially autumn/winter terms. The kids could also draw/colour/build stuff but most of them were knackered at the end of a long week.

@Nafotdbs

having an opinion & posting it is NOT trolling.

Everyone can read your first post & see your original opinion.

I'm not wasting my time arguing with you

Does anyone else wonder what the OP does in a real life problem??? Honestly, gently, get a little bit of a grip please