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?

This covers it for me

I would expect water paint that washes out! Why would you NOT get the convenient paint?

It’s expected that children at Nursery spend their days playing. Anyone who sends their child in clothes they don’t want to get dirty or spoiled is daft.

We had this with Nursery, I never complained but it did annoy me. Washable paints and felt tip pens are readily available so I don't understand what you wouldn't use them! I didn't send my DC to Nursery in their best clothes but I'd still have preferred not to have to buy 'nursery clothes' that I knew were going to get ruined.

Wouldn’t bother me, but I send my daughter into nursery in old or cheap clothes for this reason. Kids get messy, it is what it is really.

It wouldn’t annoy me at all and I d be glad they had fun painting.
we send toddler in in old clothes.

Wouldn't bother me. But I did send my kids in to nursery with stained clothes, expecting them to get more stained. I bought cheap job-lot bags of second hand "play wear" specifically for nursery.

The advice is to wear old clothes, so no it would not annoy me in nursery.

It did annoys me in primary school, when the crested jumper costs €50, I've accepted it is part of school, it'll be worn with paint marks.

Our nursery make it clear in almost every other newsletter that if we don’t buy uniform we should get dark coloured clothes specifically for nursery as they will get stained. I buy nursery stuff of vinted for this very reason!

Sorry, I don't understand your post

Absolutely!!!

I agree

I recently sent GD on a school trip in a new coat, not to be anything other than practical as it was autumn and her other was thin. They did some painting with coats on no cover up all all and coat completely ruined, I tried everything but it wouldn't budge, even gloss paint wouldn't have been as bad so yes water based paints always.

Nope wouldn't bother me. The colour that my boy comes home in some days is unbelievable!but I know this and he wears cheap primark clothes to nursery for this reason. I just bin them because although they are clean I can't send him back as they look dirty.

This used to annoy me.
But... 6 years into parenthood, I now know for a fact that ALL nursery clothes get absolutely trashed so I don't ever send anything in that I wouldn't expect to be covered in paint / mud / glitter / food etc.

Though DD once came out with her shoes all covered in paint and that did piss me off. So now they have cheap nursery shoes too!

Aprons aren’t always effective, yes I would expect water based paint. I’m surprised a nursery wouldn’t have it as it’s easier for them to clean up too.

I had old clothes for nursery, but I’d be annoyed if they got paint on them that didn’t come out in the wash.

I think in theory nurseries do used water based paint - they’d also have to risk assess what if a kid ate it (pretty likely as some are wild) however red nursery paint always seems to stain anyway! Vanish and nothing goes to nursery that’s a fav!

Yes.

At my DCs nursery when I was initially given a tour they explained that paint was always water based, they also added washing up liquid to it to help it wash out more easily.
However something in the red paint pigment always left residual marks even when it had washing up liquid in it and even when you pretreated it before washing.
My DCs always wore clothes to nursery that i didn't mind getting ruined. They may have had stains but were always clean.
At nursery age even with aprons and long sleeve protection they get paint on each other. It's to be expected. Kids learn through messy play and constantly having to stay clean is distracting and something they can learn when older.

It always makes me smile when I see marks on DD's clothes when she comes out of nursery - I can ask about what she was painting with red paint today or if she enjoyed the pasta and sauce etc. Almost all of her clothes are hand me downs or second hand (although she gets gifted pretty dresses and insists on wearing those sometimes) and I'm not precious about them getting stained. It is easier now as she's the last baby, so I don't have to keep the clothes nice to be handed down.

My daughter has a separate basket of ‘nursery clothes’ full of navy/ black/ dark grey items. Works brilliantly, she gets loads of wear out of it all without looking scruffy and I don’t have to get any stains out!

Wouldn’t bother me, I expect DC to get dirty and they have separate nursery clothes for this reason.

I'm an ex nursery worker. All our paint was water based but stained horrifically. Our manager ended up switching from a "school" brand of poster paint to Hobbycraft because nobody could get the stains out.

Aprons are a tricky one. There's been a huge push on learning in nurseries being child led. We weren't allowed to stop a child's flow of free play to make them put an apron on. We could only ask and hope they went over themselves.

No it wouldn’t bother me. I used to send my DD in old clothes but now she’s a bit older and pickier I just sent her in whatever and accept that kids get messy - it’s a sign she’s had a good day to me! There are a few things I would probably prefer she didn’t wear in but she goes 5x/week so it feels mean to deny her of wearing her nice clothes most of the week. I do sort of agree though that if there are easily washable options it would make sense to use these; however, things like pen, mud and suncream stain too.

this is out of order and obviously ridiculous on their part!