to get the hump with the creche taking DD's teething beads off??

[RGPargy]

DD is almost 2 years old.

I'm not sure whether or not i should be peed off! I took DD to the creche at the gym today. I dont normally take her on a Sunday but she goes there regularly once or twice a week and DP was working so i didn't have much choice. Anyway, when i signed her in, the lad and girl that were on reception are normally there during the week so i knew who they were etc. But when i picked her up, there was this woman in there who i haven't seen before who said to me "Oh we took her necklace off because it's quite close - just while she's playing......" I pointed out to the woman that it was an amber teething necklace and that DD wears it 24/7 so is used to wearing it. I then made sure i put it straight back on her while i was there, in front of the woman. She then went on to tell me how good she is with her speech and how well she knows her colours and shapes etc etc (like i didn't know that!!). But anyway, the more i thought about it, the more peed off i was at her taking her necklace off. AIBU to get the hump about it or am i just being sensitive about it??

It's the first time i've EVER had anyone say anything about it, to the extent where they have actually taken it off!! GGRRR!!

So, AIBU??

Amber need to get up to a temperature of 185 degrees before it releases the 'pain relieving ' component.You might as well have bought a pint of snake oil!!

Well done RGP - very graceful in the face of a whirlwind AIBU.

lol BoF

Are the kiddiwinks meant to chew these beads ?

Or does the amber mysteriously absorb through the skin ? (which incidentally, is a bodily organ designed to firmly repel any foreign matter entering the body ...)

ah yes, and then it travels round specially-designed "tubes" from the skin, directly to the gums where it relieves the pain

I get it

it's all explained - you don't chew them, it's absorbed

bollocks

well I agree, but RGP has said it was an act of desperation rather than based on sound science and I sympathise

I dont care how loose or tight the beads are, I would never put anything like that round my childs neck.

Wedding rings are mostly tight - have you seen what happens when one of those gets caught? eugh.

If someone decides to use something like this then ok, but if they are under someone else's care (i.e. creche or nursery) then those workers should be able to remove it if they want - if they arent comfortable with them wearing it and they arent with that child 1 on 1 (with ratios etc)

Wearing at night is also V. dangerous.

Ah, ignore me, I am an old cynic

loony