My LO is 18 months and attends nursery two days a week. Normally I don’t do the pick up due to work commitments but today I had was able to do the lunch time pick up. When I arrived, my LO hadn’t seen me as he was busy playing with chalk. I watched him play for a while and waited until he saw me but while I was doing this, one of the older nursery workers started telling my LO off for playing with the chalk and was quite rude to him. I don’t believe this woman knew I was his mum and I let her carry on while I witnessed what happened. The woman then told my LO to ‘give her back the chalk’ but there were no manners from her side of things which did shock me slightly. After she finished and my LO was made to hand over the chalk, I then made it clear I was in fact his mum. The nursery worker then said nothing and started talking to other children. I was genuinely appalled by what I heard. I collected my LO and left feeling really disheartened and I wondered what would have happened had I not been there, I know nothing terrible at all would’ve happened but I didn’t like the tone nor the way it was said. I know we can all be very very protective of our little darlings but I didn’t think it was ok and I want to say something to the nursery manager in an email. Do you think this is the right thing to do or am I being overly protective? I know children need to learn but both me and my husband were really set on sending our LO to a nursery where it was only positive praise and there wouldn’t be that sort of telling off involved. I hope to get some advise with this as it’s really shaken me! Thanks in advance x