To think hot drinks should be baned from toddler groups?

[cah1]

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

'I don't know how someone with a clingy/nervous/social liability of a child is supposed to cope.
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they dont get a drink

local HV has a baby group for mums who are first timers or who are vulnerable (nice to labelled then,must be me as i'm a fourth timer (because of the sn boys apaprently)

No drinks allowed in play room.

Bas wouldnt settle so I never got a drink. So I gave up going- I can sit alone at home and watch Jermey Kyl- far better than sitting alone in a room watching other people drink coffee LOL

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stewiegriffen "where?"

Poor girl obv (And I do know what the outcome can be yes- sister had a boiling pan of water poured over her by Mum in an accident).

However Mumwill drink coffee at home and there'sno point in preventing that from being near a child in 1 / 200 of the caffeine instances she undertakes in a week IMO (number clearly random)

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Surely it is the parent's responsibility to look after their children in such and all situations.

I keep an eye on my toddler when there are hot drinks about. If there is one near him I either mover the drink or move him, but the parents do this for each others children too. No-one wants to see a child hurt but there are far worse dangers at a toddler group than hot tea imo.

I was scaleded as a child. I tipped a kettle over my arm.

Yes it hurt and yes I still have a small scar but a simple cup of tea would not cause huge damage.

I didn't click on the link but I got a few blisters which lasted about a week then ithealed leaving just a small mark.

Much more damage can be done by a scalding bath or a pan of water.

I don't know about the pros & cons of hot drinks in a toddler group - but I had a link teacher visit me this week (I am a childminder) & she doesn't think I should have a cup of tea in the same room as the children

So I need to chose between not having a hot drink all day (up to 11.5 hrs) or abandoning the children & having a drink in another room

If they legislate for this I will give up

School shave that rule Katy, but then again they have staff rooms and rules that teachers don't have to supervise lunchtimes etc.

Our children's activity allows cups of tea, mind you we are paranoid about putting hot drinks on the piano not just around the children.

How many people here actually know a child who has been burnt by a hot drink at a toddler group?

At a toddler group no. At home yes, my nephew put his fingers in my cup of tea. I plonked him under the cold tap, no damage done. Cold water shocked him as much as the tea.

Our teachers actually have hot drinks in the classroom,I was quite surprised at first but they all do it.

katymac it does sounds ridiculous. my cm is all open plan so she cooks while she minds. don't they all? I've never seen that as a hindrance - my children are in my kitchen when I cook. I'd rather them be weary and used to such things tbh.
accidents can happen anywhere. I am much more worried about my dd being with other parents on the pavements who might not know how head-in-the-cloud she is and let her run with their children for example.

I completely understand where you are coming from. As a toddler my little sister managed to knock her big rag doll onto a chest of draw surface and pull everything off it, including a cup of tea my mum had just been given. Luckily there has been no lasting damage to her skin, though it took months for her skin to heal afterwards. The cup of tea was pushed far out of her reach, she could never have gotten to it. Unfortunately, her rag doll did.

At my toddler group, we seat the children down for snack time and then we all go for a cup of tea at the other end of the room so we are away from them. If we need to go and see our child, the cuppa gets left so that it isn't taken anywhere near the children.

I think a lot of people don't realise how much damage a hot cup of tea can do to young childrens skin. My little sisters skin all peeled off after that incident, and she was bandaged all over her body for a few weeks. What a pleasant sight, not.

My suggestion to you op, would be to suggest that you do what my group does, and try to ensure that people are not leaving hot drinks near the children, that's just plain stupid imo.

'YABU, ban everything and get out the cotton wool eh?'

Yes Nightcrawly, how terrible a parent the op must be for fear of her child being scoulded due to some other apes stupidity. Dear god, do you have any idea how serious a burn can be on young skin?

My not even 2 year old sisters bleeding, peeling body will haunt me for the rest of my life. It that means I 'wrap my kid in cotton wool' then so be it, at least she'll hopefully never have to be treated by the burns unit.

Am fairly shocked by some of the attitudes on this thread.

No YANBU. The should be serving gin. By the pint.

I think the OP has learned that accusing all and sundry of being poor parents for not taking a particular risk quite as seriously as she does will not win one friends on Mumsnet. Especially not on AIBU.

I feel very sorry for the little girl who was burned and would be angry with anyone who was careless with hot drinks around children. But banning them? Ridiculous. And don't anyone repeat the "Imagine not being able to forego a scalding hot drink for the sake of your precious child" line. It won't wash with me any more than "If you can't give up alcohol completely for 9 measly months, you must be a raging alcoholic" does.

Every barely half full cup of coffee poured from a giant urn, in one of those horrid thick green church hall cups in a freezing church hall kitchen that I have ever had has always been luke warm anyway.....

I take car crash injuries very seriously but I don't stop taking my children in the car. I just drive with care.

YABU. If they get banned at toddler groups then people with or around kids shouldn't have hot drinks full stop then? The occasional accident will happen anywhere, whether it be at a toddler group or at home. You can't avoid ALL accidents.

What else would the parents/carers drink? Water or squash perhaps? I don't think so.

Living is risky, it can potentially kill you. Perhaps we should all give up on any leisure now then?

cah1, the biggest risk to toddlers at toddler groups is other toddlers. Shall we ban them?

Absolutely.... would make toddler groups far safer places to go! As a teacher I am no longer allowed my play time brew in the playground due to risk of kiddies getting burnt. Bu also recently went to a holiday site where I asked if they would heat my babies bottle. Was given the biggest lecture on helath and safety then sent back to my table across a rammed dance floor full of children with a jug of boiling water!!! World gone mad or what?

Toddler group without caffeine - no way