If a mindee ruined your cot and it was unusable, what would you do?

[QueenEagle]

2.5 year old ds is put in a travel cot for his afternoon nap. The other day he pulled off his pull up full of poo and covered the cot in it, getting it in the mesh and on the fabric. Minder says it is impossible to clean therefore unusable.

She wants me to replace it and says she has no insurance to cover such a loss.

Am I liable??????

just caught this!, howd you get on?
for ther ecord, she is totally taking the pee if she expected you seriously to pay for a replacement after your ds had pooed on it...she/we as c.m buy all our equiptment and the only time o would ask for money is if a child persistantly smashed/broke things!, so many toys, so many accidents involved in breaking them!, i dont get her!?

Travel cots + awake 2.5 year old completely unchecked and alone for 30 minutes seems really unsafe to me. But I have no concept of children who lie still for hours on end without crying/getting distressed/climbing out/trying to collapse a travel cot on themselves.

ROFL at fio pooing on her lounge rug.

Just read a few of the posts. I don't think she should have been watching him 'at all times, even when he is sleeping'.
Surely you don't all sit and watch your child the whole time they're asleep.

Also, to whoever said that he 'was left in a soiled nappy' . He could have done it after she'd put him down to have a sleep. Some people are so quick to judge childminders etc.

If I were you I'd offer to go halves. Travel cots aren't that much money.

I also think that it would be really hard to clean it so that it doesn't smell etc. The little holes are tiny and the poo in them all....yuk! I'd chuck it.

I must say you are a very accommodating client to clean all the poo off that travel cot. Are you going to submit a cleaning bill?

I hope she felt like a right idiot when you brought back the clean travel cot.

How'd it go??

Update Please!!

Well this has certainly been a giggle to read, and ewwwww at those who have had children projectile vomit in their mouths, I struggle enough when DD spits chewed food into her hand and then tries to stuff it in my mouth.

QE, hope you got on well with the CM.

I use a CM and she does not use travel cots / cots. The older kids sleep on the sofa if they need a nap, and the younger ones sleep in prams. Which I am totally comfortable because on a weekend, DD (nearly two) either takes her nap in the pram or on the sofa.

My DD went through a stage of sticking her hands down the back of her trousers and into her nappy (and looking bewildered if there was any poo on the fingers when she brought them out) but I just warned the CM and so she was aware.

I dont think my CM would have asked me to pay for a replacement but I probably would have offered (she would have then refused but I would still look like an angel ), but in fairness my CM does do a lot of things outside of what I would consider normal minding, e.g. in the past few weeks she has taken DD to the zoo, to a wild life park, to several beauty spots with activities for picnics etc, so I think I get a bargain!

Ooops, meant to say stuff I consider to be outside of normal minding costs, 'cause we dont pay extra for these trips / fairs etc

I really want to know how it went.....

so do I...