MY DC and i go to a lovely local childrens centre a couple of times a week,its fab,loads to do,lovely staff,all free and the kids love it.
Went today and there was a new lady working there.
As usual the kids all had a snack,toast and a drink,all hunky dory, then it came to clearing the beakers and plates away.
There are signs up in the kitchen asking everyone to wash their cups etc up which is fine,usually one of us mums just gets on with it,no fuss.
Today after snacktime the sink was full of cups ,the new lady came marching out of the kitchen saying loudly that she had already washed up once and wasnt going to do it again and couldnt we read the signs,it was supposed to be a home from home etc etc.
She then proceeded to go round each room thrusting one of the signs in our faces again exclaiming loudly how it wasnt on and noone was leaving til we had all done it blah blah blah.She made a comment to one of the other staff members about whipping our asses into shape then -and this is the bit that really wound me up-got a few of the buggies parked in the indoor pram park and put them across the gate to block the exit again saying noone was leaving til it was done
Now dont get me wrong i dont have a problem at all with washing up as long as someone is prepared to watch my 9 month old and 2 and a half year old-there are lots of activities such as painting,water,sand plus older toys that could be dangerous that i wouldnt want them to be doing unsupervised-plus there are also signs up saying that children are the responsibility of their parent/carer.
So ,am i being unreasonable to think the way this woman went about it was out of order,there are better ways of making a point that dont include causing a fire hazard and that if she wants us to wash up she could bloody well ask us nicely rather than speaking to us like idiots?