to hate playgroup?

[juneybean]

I'll start by saying I have to go because my bosses pay for charge to go.

But I really cannot stand it and today it really cemented it.

The leader has left suddenly so all the commitee members are pulling together to help out.

At songtime this woman I'm not too familiar with takes us through to the other room for songtime, and works down a list intermittantly saying "I'm not really sure of this one" until we get to Miss Polly.

She says "A girls song, I don't know this one I have all boys" or something similar. Still implying that Miss Polly is a song for girls.

AIBU to think this isn't really something you should say in a childcare setting?

Yabu

the lyrics are miss polly had a dolly

she's just making conversation surely?

You are seriously over thinking this.

Sounds to me like she was a bit nervous about leading the singing. One sure-fire way to get the songs you like is to offer to do the job yourself!

My understanding was that she did´t know the song as she has boys.

Not that she has anything against it!

YABU. There are hundreds of much better reasons to hate playgroup.

Was the lady a parent ?

If so, I imagine she was nervous. Bit of a funny thing to say - I have 2 boys and know every sodding song going.....

agree with waitingforbedtime

Remember that you as a nanny are a childcare professional paid to think about these things whereas the committee are presumably volunteer mums. Cut them some slack. Or volunteer to help them.

But why can't a boy sing miss polly?

I hated playgroup but today btw lol

before*

no-one says they can't

maybe her boys just hated it

dd, for reasons best known to herself, hates Hey Diddle Diddle

Yabu

the lyrics are miss polly had a dolly

she's just making conversation surely?

Oops wierdy double posting

Maybe her boys didn't especially like Miss Polly.

Who the hell is Miss Polly?

My DS is 5 months old. Should I know what you're talking about? Am I a bad mother, depriving my child of the right songs? Will the children at nursery laugh at him?

Or is it something I'll learn to loathe in future like In The Night Garden and Teletubbies?

It's a nursery rhyme.

Apparently one for girls only.

You are lucky!!!! as a nursery nurse I was always roped in to do the singing when I took my dc to playgroup - there I sat singing incey wincey in my horrid out of tune singing voice with snot on my elbows and thighs whilst the 'yummy mummies' sat there in their designer clothes rattling sodding tambourines .....

Ohh I don't mind joining in! I love nursery rhymes lol, it's the insinuation that Miss Polly is a girls song that annoyed me.

Seriously though there's no yummy mummies at ours, I guess I'm the yummy nanny though

@Juney