if I'm really pissed off with the childminder for saying this....

[bohemianbint]

...dropped DS (who is very nearly 2) off at the childminder's this morning and we were talking about how he's really clingy at the mo. (I'm 38 weeks pregnant and I think he knows something's afoot and is a bit unsettled.) I didn't send his dummy because I'm trying to get him to keep it just for sleep times, which isn't usually a problem and he doesn't really mind normally.

When I came to pick him up, CM said he had been asking for his dummy. So she said to him:

"you can't have your dodie or mummy won't come back because she doesn't want to see you with it."

Then apparently "he just made a little noise and didn't mention it again, so it worked brilliantly!"

Freaking STUPID thing to say to a kid at the best of times, but when she knows he's a bit insecure at the moment I think it's beyond stupid.

Thing is, she is generally really lovely, and I don't think she meant it in a nasty way, she's just a bit...I dunno...dense?

There have been other issues recently but this has got me really pissed off and I'm thinking I won't send him again.

I'm not BU, am I?

I had to go look at it a couple of times to get my head around the fact that "satisfactory" is only one above "inadequate" and nowhere near "good"!

tink - no, not pleased! She was better this year than last year, but that doesn't seem to be saying much.

I thought I'd seen the OFSTED report before agreeing to send DS - I was obviously thinking of something else.

It's the inadequate the year before that concerns me the most.

The only improvements in the subsequent inspection this year were the bare minimum that needed to be made to scrape through a satisfactory