To think hot drinks should be baned from toddler groups?

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I am sick to death of parents just leaving them in toddlers reach! It really scares me!

I have cups of tea in my toddler group, however they are drank in the kitchen behind a safety gate, while we all take turns its part of a clause in our liability insurance also, due to previous experience.

one group had a photo of a scalded child (nice) but it does act as a stark reminder

I see that the proportion of idiotic self-righteous whinyarses remains the same after two years.
'Waa! There's a RISK! Ban everything in sight, we can't possibly have parents enjoying anything if there's a RISK!'

Hot meals aren't served in our local maternity unit, but you can have a cup of tea with your sandwich, due to elf and safety

slavewife's comment about there now being a clause in their liability insurance following a previous experience describes how and why health and safety practices develop and evolve.

If you don't agree with them, you can just not to go the groups. Or just go without a hot drink for an hour or so.

OK, so two-thirds of six or seven toddlers were burned a week by hot drinks. THat is about 3 or 4 a week, 12 a month, 144-ish a year. Multiplied by however many burns units there are in the UK. I know it's too many as far as those poor toddlers are concerned but it still doesn't, in my eyes at least, justify never having a hot drink in your own home while you have a toddler. Statistically it still seems that a careful person would be unlikely to end up with a scalded child. That is, someone who perhaps tries to wait until the toddler is napping or watching a video at the other end of the room. Or someone who drinks a cup of tea at the kitchen table while the toddler is playing with some bricks on the floor.

I'd have been locked up if I hadn't been able to have a reviving coffee in my own home while bringing up my two as toddlers and babies.

Yabu. Wtf?

Never having a hot drink in your own home is ridiculous imo. But at toddler groups where 30+ kids are running around it is an accident waiting to happen to have hot drinks unless in an adult only area. Anyone who says they watch their kids 100% of the time - I don't believe you. Can't believe that anyone thinks that their 'right' to a hot drink in a particular 2 hr slot of the day is worth ANY risk of scalding a baby and possibly scarring them for life. Even the most careful of adults can quite easily be crashed into by an unpredictable toddler. Of course some risks have to be taken and some minimal risks are worth taking if there is a great benefit but in this case the potential consequences are serious and the benefit very small (a hot drink that parents can easily have before or after the group if they're that desperate).

So if you host a NCT toddler morning ,or similar, in your own home you can't serve hot drinks? All because adults these days are irresponsible!

I bet most scalding accidents are in the home-with only the immediate family.

I have 5 DC and took them all to toddler groups over the years. Saw a child scalded once. Another mum spilled some hot tea on someone's child (didn't see how exactly). It as very awkward as everyone was sat in a circle and suddenly started staring. Luckily, it was only superficial but the mum was mad. I do sometimes worry when older ladies carry hot heavy trays full of drinks over toddlers who are running about.

More scalding accidents and accidents in general will take place in the home because most people spend a lot more of their time at home than at toddler groups.
I only have hot drinks in the kitchen of my house that has a safety gate onto the play room so I can drink my cuppas safely and watch the kids.
As for coffee mornings unless you live in a mansion there aren't going to be the number of hot drinks/kids running around as there would be in your average toddler group.

I am involved in a toddler group, and we are very strict about hot drinks.

By that I mean that every mum/dad gets a hot drink.

At a table, sitting down, chatting with other parents.

Toddlers/babies are entertained by the toys/other babies/ parents who've finished drinking/etc.

There is nothing relaxing about having a cuppa with an active toddler in the immediate vicinity. No need to ban anything. Just other parents looking out for eachother's kids and eachother's sanity. 5 years going strong, and no problems so far.

Banning hot drinks is nuts. Its not just for the toddlers and babies that these groups exist. Parents need outlets/social opportunities too.

dont be daft,cant ban hot drinks at groups.its the only reason to go

sure isnt the kids or other mums

octopus, it depends on the venue. I used to go to a baby group in a portacabin where hot drinks were quite rightly not allowed. There just wasn't room. It isn't nuts to ban hot drinks where there isn't a safe separate place to drink them.

cause baby group forces you to go out,drag arse off sofa.and the hot tea is compensation

yabu do you want to wrap the world in cotton wool?

Hot tea and buttered toast are vital to a toddler group. Just move the drinks.

you need complex carbs & hot drink at baby group
toast would be nice.v nice.never been to one as swish as that

I couldn't relax with hot drinks around babies and toddlers in a group setting.

It's less about wrapping people in cotton wool than avoiding babies with burn wounds having to be wrapped in cling film.

the hot drink is the reason to relax at groups,and whilst i appreciate the catastrophic impact of a burn,i dont refrain from hot drink just in case. i do take care and be vigilant

Nope, hot drinks and babies/toddlers are most definitely not a combination that are conducive to my relaxing.

I do refrain from hot drinks just in case; in the same way that I don't expect a car to run me over at a zebra crossing but wait to make sure it's stopped, just in case.

i dont live life on a what if premise.in that case id never do anything just in case

omfg really??? how the hell did mums manage in years gone by 3) how fucking stupid

YABU - hot drinks are the only good things about toddler groups. If you can cope with a cup of coffee at home then why not elsewhere?