Kiddi Caru Earls Court - prams storage

[Trapielita]

I have received a message this morning from our nursery : as parents are not folding the prams, the nursery manager decided to take all unfolded prams outside the nursery and leave them there!!! (yes yes outside, not within the nursery perimeter)

I'm utterly shocked by the concept. Have other nurseries done something similar? Those are such expensive piece of kits!!! Is this normal? We all cut corners in the morning but sounds pretty harsh to me

Prams are normally left at own risk
How selfish of people not to fold prams
Good on the manager for taking action

And yes, I’ve done something similar
Parents kept leaving scooters and bikes in our pram shed, meaning parents couldn’t even leave prams, so I moved all the scooters and bikes to out side the nursery on the pavement

Just buy (second hand) a cheap umbrella fold pushchair. Crazy leaving an expensive ram at nursery whether in the storage or not.

*pram

It would have been fair to add to the notice anyone not folding will be removed. But if there have been countless reminders and asking can see why they’ve taken action.

I don't know this particular nursery, but a warning prior to doing this ("As of tomorrow, any prams left unfolded will be....") would make sense IMO. Otherwise there will be howling outrage when someone's iCandy gets nicked.

Op I agree with you. Its a dreadful thing to do. It's like a toddler strop!
Warn the parents of what they need to do, tell them directly, ban them from bringing them if necessary but you can't do that with no warning.
Also if it was raining etc how would people get there children home in wet prams etc. Awful!

It won’t have been done without notice
Parents will have had countless reminders which they will have chosen to ignore

Sometimes you ask and ask and ask but only get taken seriously when you actually do something. I don't blame the manager.