to want to say something to Nursery

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I picked DD up from nursery today, and she was actually totally filthy. They were playing outside.
Her coat is covered in mud and some pink stuff. Its a new coat, a cheap one from the next sale. And i can wash it.
I send her in cheap clothes anyway, so it doesnt matter. I dont usually mind a bit of mess but this was beyhond even what i can handle. Her jogging bottoms were caked in mud and soaking wet at the bottom. Her face was covered in dirt. her hands were also covered in thick mud and it was all under her fingernails. She even had mud in her hair.

Kids will be kids. Like i said, i dont mind and never in almost a year has she come back from nursery in such a state. Should i say something? i dont want to rock the boat as ive been more than happy with it all. BUT, this was a little bit much even for me.

I don't see how the clothes could still be wet and the mud still wet if she had been in them since morning inside the nursery it would have dried in by the time you picked her up surely.

I don't know I think you are annoyed and no matter what we say you will stay annoyed. I went to pick ds up again from pre-school and they were outside and the grass is muddy and horrible after all the snow and it doesn't take much for it to get everywhere.

I would be pleased that the staff bothered to take the children outside to play.

No-one ver died from a bit of muck.

OP - I think you are annoyed that they left her like this for a while if it was dried on?

If they were still outside then yes YA(definitely)BU. They hadn't had a chance to clean her up.

DS often comes home from school caked in mud a the moment, it is because we stop off at the park and kick a football around and he dives and falls over and with all the snow melted into the grass is a mudfield. I have to scratch his head in the shower to get it all out. I do make him take his school coat off though. Thing cost me a friggen' fortune.

It really doesn't matter.

Hi shop, just read your other post. It sounds like too much, specially cause she was the only one like that. I would definitely talk to them, as I would worry with neglect too.

what was the pink stuff?playdough/paint etc ? do they not wear aprons?

if they had just been playing outside before you picked her up,then yabu as nursery prob thought no point to chnage into clean clothes for a few mins before you pick her up

but if mud was dried on then means has been left in wet/muddy clothes all day and that would annoy me

if you take wellies then make sure she can tuck her trousers into wellies or ask staff t check they are before goes out

i would expect clean/washed hands+face

i have picked up dc (4) from nursery and been covered in mud, and he will proudly say i fell over/played football etc

that is what washing machines are for

Sounds like they had a good afternoon. Hurrah for a nursery letting kids get proper muddy.

I think YANBU to expect some kind of acknowledgement or explanation of her state. If it had just happened then fair enough, they hadn't had a chance to clean her up. I'd still expect some kind of comment though, probably just along the lines of 'she got very mucky today, she was having so much fun splashing in the garden'.

I think you need to ask one of the more experienced staff next time you drop her off, just say something like 'You must have had fun in the garden last week, I've never seen DD so muddy!' and see how they respond. I would also ask (casually if possible) about when they went out. I find it hard to believe that anyone in child care would leave a child with mud on their hands all day, and in wet clothes. Does she have a change of clothes at nursery, or would changing not have been possible?