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Nursery Discipline - HELP - Opinions please

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minkybetty · 16/12/2009 14:00

An incident occurred last week at DDs nursery whereby she totally out of character pushed another child over. The Nursery Nurse shouted "how dare you" very loudly at her and sat her alone on a step outside.
The nursery have investigated the incident and nursery nurse has been given a written warning as it is not sort of behaviour that they expect from their staff. My DD has been very upset going to nursery this week (howling, holding onto me, saying don't leave me) and was very upset when we asked her about pushing the child (sobbed, ran away and hid - we did not know at this point that she had been shouted etc at.) - For sometime now DD has been crying every morning going to nursery and saying that she doesn't like it and I wonder if this nursery nurse is generally quite harsh (most children say she is loud and my DD hides behind me when she sees her). Should I request that this Nursery nurse is moved to another nursery / request that she no longer works with my child? It is a very small nursery of only about 20 children so her impact (loud and brusque) whithin the nursery is widely felt. Obviously my primary responsibility is to my DD - Help, has anyone had a similar experience and what did they do.

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marmitetoastie · 16/12/2009 17:08

I would go in and talk to them, but in such a small place can you reasonably ask them to move their staff? You might want to look for a new nursery though. If they employ someone unsuitable then it speaks volumes about the ethos of the whole place really.

How come this incident happened and no-one there knew about it until you brought it up? What else goes on unobserved?

I'd start looking around for another childcare provider.

EvilTwinsStoleSantasSleigh · 16/12/2009 17:09

Agree that you should look elsewhere if you're not happy with the nursery - not really your place to ask them to move staff around.

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