to want a non-smoking nursery key worker for my baby?

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My ds2 will be joining ds1 at my work nursery for 3 days/week when he's 9 months old. Nursery is fantastic with lovely staff and low turnover.

The thing is, there are 4 f-t staff in the baby room and 1 is a smoker. I know this because she's usually outside the building finishing her fag when I drop ds1 off in the morning. I really don't want my baby to spend much of his day being cuddled by someone who stinks of cigarettes and am thinking of asking the manager discreetly whether he can have any of the others as key workers instead.

What do you think?

SlackSally, children's carers, especially keyworkers, are significant people in their lives. One way children learn behaviours is by observing and modelling what they see. Yes, I would prefer my children to never see anyone smoke, it is an unhealthy and unpleasant habit I hope they never pick up. But I know that may be considered unreasonable, so the least I can ask for is that people my children know and look up to do not smoke in front of them