Nursery lying

[Jojomamabee]

Hello so this afternoon I went to pick up my little one from the nursery the had radish and they told me my daughter didn't like it and my daughter 4 year old heard that and came all the way home saying that she liked and they even eat it with butter. What's your thoughts please mummies? I am really upset on why the hell they lied! I just feel they are constantly testing my parental skills! Thank you

Seriously op. It will be a simple mistake. Lying would be about something serious. Also is it slightly possible that your daughter is “lying” to you

Are you in France? Applying for citizenship?
You may just have failed the très secret practical test.

Sounds like she was overtired.

Why do you think they are testing you? What a strange thing to say.

It's a very odd snack to give a child in the UK.
Although this thread is odd as fuck!

It really isn't. Nurseries make great efforts to offer the kids a wide variety of veg/salad items to try. Carrot and cucumber sticks every day would be easy and cheap, so it's a good sign they're varying the menu.

I'm so confused, how does your child saying 'they put butter on the radish' prove that she liked/ate it, but you are convinced the staff are lying because your child says they put butter on it?
Far more plausible that your child thinks she was in trouble or did something wrong because staff say she didn't like it, why on earth are you showing her pictures of radishes, no one is disputing that she was served a radish!

Milly I would assume OP thought her child was confusing a radish with another type of vegetable, when actually staff were confusing something her child said with something another child said.

Hi @Jojomamabee , you say in your op that you feel like they constantly test your parental skills. Did I understand that correctly? If it is so, I completely get your frustration: I've seen it a million times and it is disrespectful to you. It can be done with minutiae, like the raddish thing: little lies as inside jokes between the staff. It's insidious because it lets you feeling kind of crazy and insecure, but deep down you know that there's a hostility there towards you. I'm sorry 🙏

My advice would be: keep communicating with your daughter and obviously believing her. You know best if she is fine. If you see she is not, then maybe you should consider taking her out of there. As it's her last year there and we're approaching the end of the term, if she is generally fine and you don't see she is in danger, you could let her finish the rest of the year.

Do you feel that, regardless of their attitude, your daughter is safe with them? Would changing nurseries (or taking her out completely) be an option for you?

Showing the child pictures proves nothing. I will believe you, and her, after you serve her a buttered radish and she eats it with gusto.

Otherwise I'd be inclined to suspect that she ate the butter and left the radish.

LOL, this thread is brilliant

Ask them.

This is an absolute NON-issue.
It's a non-issue about...a fucking radish.
Jesus wept.

Be careful! The MN police are onto things like this! Although, to be truthful, my post wasn’t anywhere near as rude as this, but it got deleted anyway. They are not consistent in what they do and don’t allow. I’ll say goodbye now as this is bound to be deleted too!

I've never before heard of young children eating radishes. Is this a new thing? I'm pretty sure I've never voluntarily eaten a radish and I'm 75..

Love radishes - we ate them when we were young, with butter to mitigate the strength of flavour. I'm pretty sure the varieties in the supermarkets now are less peppery than they used to be anyway, so maybe you should try them again.

I found my kids were quite adventurous as preschoolers - perhaps because nobody had told them not to like things yet. Ds as a toddler loved sprouts and wasabi flavours for example, neither of which he eats now as a teenager!

Don't know if this nursery may have, but radishes are also very easy to grow, so it was a common thing to grow with kids then eat.