AIBU to think nursery staff should not cordon off a public playground?

[mumofboysinlondon]

I took my almost 3-year-old and baby to a small playground this morning, and while we were there a nursery group came along. So far so normal.

The staff with the group then added chains to the two gates to stop their kids from escaping, and roped off some of the climbing frame.

I was a bit annoyed by this - the roped off areas included the fireman’s pole and a rope ladder which my kid loves. Obviously this is a space designed for small children so it is inherently pretty safe… The locks on the gates also confused a number of other parents trying to get in, although they could be opened relatively easily by an adult.

I did speak to the member of staff and asked if they really needed to do it and she said it was the health and safety policy of the nursery. I didn’t want to kick up a fuss and we left after a bit.

AIBU in thinking this was a bit out of order - it’s a public playground.

Id appreciate it if you stop commenting im done with this conversation goodbye

It's a public forum. I have a right to post here the same as OP child has the right to use play equipment on a PUBLIC playground.

Goodbye 👋

Ridiculous comment and classic case of

whataboutism
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Whataboutism (or whataboutery) is a rhetorical tactic—often a logical fallacy—used to deflect criticism by accusing an opponent of similar or worse wrongdoing, typically starting with "What about...?". It functions as a distraction to discredit the initial accusation by alleging hypocrisy, rather than addressing the substance of the issue.

Ok lovely thank you for the lecture much appreciated 👍

Cheerio

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And you're comment proves you've got way too much time on your hands pity you tbh

You do that btw your comment has been reported so might think twice about that if i was you

YANBU, that’s outrageous!

I had a different, but similar, instance recently. I took my children to the local library on a rainy day in half term, and the whole of the children’s area had been blocked off with some wheelie trollies parked at a right angle to the bookcases so nobody could get past. And there was singing, so it seemed like a private class. But I’d shlepped up there, so checked with the staff before traipsing home again and no, it was a local nursery who’d taken a load of babies to sit on the floor of the children’s area of the library and then blocked the entire area off, presumably to stop the babies escaping, but in the meantime preventing anyone else from accessing it, while they sat there singing (not even looking at the books?!)

The nursery staff didn’t make any attempt to move their trollies, and I couldn’t speak to them due to the singing, so I had to manoeuvre them out of the way myself and climb over all the crawling babies while also holding my own baby. My older child couldn’t get to the books he wanted, couldn’t hear me over the singing and was so worried about standing on the moving obstacle course below him that he just grabbed a random book then left.

I get that taking children to a library is a good thing, obviously, and of course they have every right to be there…but they can’t then shut off the public space to everyone else and prevent anyone using the library for its intended purpose!

That's terrible. It's like the people who lay out party accessories on public tables in the park meant for all, then don't use it for the majority of the time. If In tired I'm going to sit there, it doesn't matter if they have strewn it with bluey cups etc then sodded of.

Pot, kettle, black.

Oh so you reported me for NOT harassing you. Get a life.