DD is 2.5 and goes to nursery 1 day a week. She rarely sleeps there though she needs to really and is very crabby without it. She loves her dummies but knows that they are for sleep time only, or in extreme circumstances. The nursery know we prefer her not to have them unless she is inconsolable.
Today she was particularly tired and the deputy manager said that she'd asked for dummies a couple of times and was very upset (tired) so she told her she could have them then didn't give them to her. I was a bit at this and probed and she said that she had said she would get them which stopped her crying then left the room and didn't come back for while until she'd forgotten about them. Now is this smart work or just plain mean? I'm thinking it's a bit mean.
The nursery are ok in general. I don't have any real issue with the way they look after DD, though I don't feel like I get value for money (£42 a day! 8.30 till 5.30) and they aren't great communicators. For instance according to their notes DD ate all of her dinner today but it was roast chicken, carrots and broccoli, but I can almost guarantee that she wouldn't have eaten the broccoli, she thinks it is 'too yucky', maybe she did, but she said she didn't. Anyway, that's an aside, she likes it there, but I just felt that the nursery deputy was a bit mean today.