Dear Mums,
My 2 years old son started his nursery for a month now. I am very happy to see he is embracing his new social life. At the same time, I am feeling helpless. My son's nose was badly scratched by another 2 years old boy in the same nursery. His poor little nose covered with five finger nail cuts. It was bleeding and the nursery staff followed the first aid procedure. Obviously, I was very sad and raised this problem to the nursery manager seriously and Hope they can manage that kid well as we don't want to see this happen again. The nursery manager agreed.
Then three days later, this little boy attacked my son's nose again. This time nurser staff told me that kid didn't mean malicious. My son didn't get disturbed at all. By this stage I was getting worried if this will be a pattern of attacking in the future. Again I raised this issue with the nursery manager. They said they would try to keep that boy away from my son and check his finger nails short. Again, I choose to trust the nursery manager.
A few days later, when my husband dropped my son to the nursery, this little boy went to attack my little one again, but luckily was stopped in time by husband. By this time, we really get worried about the attack from that kid. The nursery manager asked her line manager and had a conversation with us. The agreement is they will try best to keep that kid away from my son and prevent this happen again.
Two days after the above conversation, my son's old scare on his nose was reopened again. You can see clearly this scare was done by three little finger nails. Looking at my son's scare, I'm really sad. What made things worse is that the nursery manager didn't even answer my phone call once i saw the accident report. At 3:30pm the pickup time, the nursery manager, her line manager and another senior manager were all there. I asked them what happened to my son's nose. They said a group of kids danced together and one fell down and grabbed my son's nose. What kind of coincident! I feel it is hard to believe what they said. If it is true, the scare on his nose should be a long line scratch, not a finger nail's mark! And the nursery manager blamed me that I bombarded them with phone calls! What a ridiculous response! what is wrong with a mother trying to find out her son's injury? ! By this stage, there is no agreement achieved with the nursery mangers as they repeated the same message as before--- pay close attention to them but no guarantee!
I am very sad and feel helpless. I am badly looking for suggestions from all Mums. What can do I and how can I stop this happen and protect my son? What effective measures should I take and how to talk to the nursery staffs? I know changing nursery is one option, but my son just settled in that nursery.
Appreciate your time and suggestions.
xx