Would this annoy you as a parent?

[Jodes97]

I work in a nursery and a parent has messaged in asking what kind of paint we use at the nursery. They said it’s not coming out of their boys clothes after trying everything and they’re annoyed about it, saying they’d expect it be water based paint. Would this be something that would annoy you as a parent or would you just think it’s to be expected at nursery?

It’s unlikely to be anything but water based paint. But some colours “stick “ more especially black and red pigments. When I was a Nursery teacher we put aprons on but mishaps happen. Be happy that the kids actually get opportunities for play and creativity and buy cheap clothes for nursery 😊

I wouldn't have thought a nursery would have anything but water based paints, if only on cost grounds. Many years ago, the nursery mine went to asked you to supply some sort of "overall,"which 99% of the time was one of Dad's old shirts worn back to front.

It doesn’t get much better at school! White board markers are the devil! Had a few white shirts ruined by them!

I think nurseries should use water based paint. I've never complained but LO gets absolutely covered in it and it doesn't come out. I'm not sending them in good clothes but having to chuck 1, sometimes 2 outfits per week is starting to annoy me. Even cheap ones it soon adds up with it being so regular. If it was once every so often I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Maybe slightly but not enough to mention it to the nursery … I am really crap at gettting stains out and I fully expect any clothes worn to nursery to get dirty/stained so only send him in stuff that I don’t mine getting messy. I’d never send him in brand new best of gear

I keep sets of nursery clothes. She doesn’t go in, in stained clothes, I’ll keep them for home. But I buy certain clothes for nursery only. Never her good stuff. no hand me downs here either so she doesn’t have old stuff, but she has plainer stuff.

It doesn’t bother me, yes it’s better if it comes out but it is what it is. They grow so much I’m replacing stuff anyway!

Yes this does bother me! My dd has has multiple deessss ruined with paint that won’t wash out. They don’t wear aprons. L I got the dresses for nursery and rotate them but I hate sending her in ‘dirty’ with paint on her dresses, even though they’re clean! Feels wrong!

I would expect school/nurseries to have water based paints. Not all children have hand me down clothes or certain nursery clothes.

I've worked in schools and can confirm that the paint they use does not come out of clothes unlike the poster paint when I was a kid. No idea why the school supplies places don't make washable paint. Lots of parents get cross about it, especially when painting happens a couple of days into autumn term. Even when aprons are used, it gets everywhere! Bad enough if you can get away with supermarket polo shirts, really shitty if you've spent a fortune on a top with the school logo on.

Nursery is expensive enough without clothes getting ruined. Used to annoy the hell out of me. Especially when it happened to coats, of which I could definitely only afford one of. Old clothes aren’t possible in a child that’s grows out of things so quickly either. It always seems to be the sleeves, like please encourage the children to roll their sleeves up.

Well you would expect them to be water based for a nursery let's be honest, the parent is in the right on this one.

I would expect water based paints and aprons at nursery, so I do think the parent is right to ask.

I would send my child id scruffy clothes knowing that food was going to go everywhere and he was going to be in the mud etc but it would annoy me if the nursery weren't even trying to minimise staining by using water soluble paint. Wouldn't it stain their own uniforms and furniture etc too?

I work in my kids nursery and tbh this happened last week to me. It annoyed me a little, but at the end of the day I don't send my kids to nursery in clothes that I care about getting stained (even if it is permanent) (also advise the parent- I scrubbed and scrubbed with the pink stuff and fairly liquid, let it soak for ages and then put it in the machine with 2 scoops of the pink stuff and it's nearly back to normal)

It annoys me more at school. My DC once came back with a huge black splash over the front of a white shirt that never washed out, only turned a dirty grey. I sent him back to school in that shirt for the rest of the term to make a point, before giving in and binning it.

i used to send both mine in old or cheap ’nursery’ clothes. I always expected them to get messy and dirty. But this would still have really annoyed me.

I’d be annoyed if the nursery wasn’t using the least likely to stain paint possible. It just seems like common sense to do that.

I wouldn’t be annoyed if they were using the least staining paint and my son still ended up with the odd stain. Can’t be helped and I send him in clothes I don’t mind being stained.

However, I try to avoid staining as much as possible as I don’t have any friends with younger kids to give hand me downs to, and no one taking donations wants stained clothes.

Yes because water based paints are better for so many reasons.

They don't learn any less well with water based, non staining, paint.

It's kind of an annoyance because there are water based paints readily available, but also expected and I wouldn't bother complaining. My kid comes home from nursery covered in all sorts, important thing is she's having fun and learning. Just don't send them into nursery in anything you don't want ruined.

Ironically I’d be fine with this, they grow out of clothes so fast and who cares if it’s stained? Ironically our nursery seem fastidious about aproning, bibbing and changing them…we’ve got one jumper with some sort of stain in 2 years and that’s it!

Respectfully disagree. Paints that won’t wash out with water are generally more damaging .

Both really. I always sent my daughter in a rotation of 5 or so nursery outfits. So I didn't mind that they got mucky or stained but we had the same where the paint didn't wash out and it was annoying, just because the paint always got everywhere and there was only so much staining on a top that I felt was ok before they just looked too awful.

even poster paint stains if it’s allowed to dry on th clothes.

Our nursery said it’s because it’s up to the child. They have to the child’s permission to put aprons and bibs on them. Abit worlds gone mad if you ask me