buy your child new shoes!!!!

[vickiyumyum]

ds2 recently started nursery in the afternoons, which had been going really well.
Brought the kids new shoes the weekend before last and ds2 got boots that do up with a zip, beczause all the other that fitted him had laces, so i though that with practice he could do them himself.

got a letter from nuresery on friday, saying, please buy willima new shoes this weekend that he can do up himself as we do not have the tiem to do your childs shoes up!
i haven't brought him any new shoes yet as i had been at work all weekend and really am not sure that i want to, the zips are just a biot stiff because they are new, once he gets used to them he will be able to do them.

what would you do? (am going to see the teacher tomorrow lunch time to discuss with her)

How old are early years then? I can understand teachers wanting most reception class at school to be able to do shoes up, but surely kids under 4 aren't all expected to? I would have thought quite a large chunk of them would need help - my DS still does with some kinds of shoes, and he's 6. DD of course, can do most types up and refuses to allow you to help (she's 3).

i would send a letter back saying "certainly, when shall i expect the money for them?"

Reception is "Early Years", C.

At nursery? I'm confused. I thought reception was the first year of school, when it's the term before their first birthday?

send them a letter telling them to stop wasting your money - you pay them to look after your child not send silly letters. In the time it took them to write that letter and print it they could have done his shoes up for the next three months.

How ridiculous!!!

I would refuse to buy them, your ds has wide feet, the alternative would have been laces. Why should you put him into ill fitting shoes just to make their lives easier.

Dd never has velcro shoes and never will as she needs a t bar style to fit her awkward feet.

I've worked with reception and nursery children and fully expected to assist children with shoes, buttons, zips on jackets and ties. Even if they have velcro shoes we still checked them as the kids never do them up tight enough.

Does that mean they are under staffed? Maybe they should address that first! I know its a pia getting all the kiddies shoes on - but thats their job - they just want an easy life. Lazy buggers!

no sorry i totally diagree
have you ever bene there when having to do kids effin shoes up
its a real pain int he arse. get velcro or teach your kdis to do it or have oyur kids time at nrsery totally wasted by taking 20 minutes to dresss kids to go out
i am iwith the nursery

I don't mind having my kids' time at nursery wasted for 20 minutes. What else would they be doing? Working on a plan to solve the energy crisis? At 3 or 4 years old, I really don't think they need to be getting on with anything more complicated than doing up shoes and coats. And if that means they'll miss out on twenty more minutes of sticking things on bits of paper, I doubt if it'll have catastrophic consequences.

Quite apart from the fact that even with velcro, they still sometimes need you to pull it tighter, otherwise it will trip them up. It's just part of the job.

I would have no problem on insisting on velcro if they had stated it with all the starting nursery stuff. If not, then it is up to them to deal with it. I am a big person for proper school shoes etc, and that costs money - I woulnd't be able to afford to go and buy a new pair just because they didn't bother to state preferences.

so juts sit them on a chair all day then caligula if oyu dont see any poiitn to constructive activites at nirsery
why s end them at all

dd2s nursery insist on velcro in fact it says no zips or laces

I dont think they mind helping them do it but they are very insistent that they learn to do it themselves and if the child can't do his own shoes its a PITA.

personally I would buy a new pair of cheapy velcro and wear the other ones around the house until the zip gets easier to master

we are as one

butt hey havent insisted on velcro, they have just said 'he can't do his shoes up' so buy him some that he can do up?

lol it must be the hormones

They ought to be thankful that they are not based up here in the west highlands. When I worked in the nursery attached to the school we had to help the children out of their school shoes and into wellies, waterproof trousers, waterproof jackets, hats and gloves. And if they needed the loo during breaktime... I don't think I ever got a cup of tea in the winter, I was always struggling with zips!

excalty
not too much to ask i s it?

refuse to buy new shoes. tell them that he will be able to do the up himself and it is only 2 zips for goodness sake, not a rubics cube!

"excalty"

lovin' it

I didn't say I don't see a point to sticking leaves on paper, Cod, I'm sure it's highly beneficial and is an envied addition to my interior decor [groan]. I just don't think it matters that much if they miss ten minutes of it because they're doing up shoes. And learning to do shoes up is in itself a fascinating activity for my DD, by the looks of it. (10 bloody minutes this morning refusing to let me help her.)

Is this going the way of the parking thread?

yes but if the zip is too stiff he may not be able to do it at all...

well now they don't have to slather the kids with suncream, surely the staff have time to help with shoes and zips - -what about zips on coats?

BTW my ds2's nursery staff tie shoelaces, help with buttons zips shoes suncram whatewver, but then it is a daycare day nursery, which takes babies from 6 months,perhaps they have different rules?