Nursery Toys

RoxieW

I'd be annoyed at this. My kids private nursery charged £35 a day per child and the owner drives a merc, owns abig house in the country and villa abroad etc. I'd be suggesting she spends some of her profits on actually upgrading the toys not expect to have her cake and eat it.

minimoneysaver

Surely having one year olds on a bouncy castle is dangerous? The bones and muscles in their legs won't be strong or mature enough to support the impact of a bounce.

Spendless

On my side of family there are 4 grandkids born within 3 years, including a set of twins so requests come all together. It gets too much, normally I *forget* and if the sponsored whatever takes place outside of school don't attend.

fernliebee

Silverbird wrote: »

I've got nothing further to add to what's already been said, but just thought I'd mention that I work for Orthopaedic Surgeons at a hospital and around 90% of all broken arms and legs in children are caused by bouncy castle and trampolining injuries. The Surgeons think they should all be banned. 1 does seem extremely young to be participating in this.

I agree with you, bouncy castles are extremely dangerous, but like most things it is when they are mis-used. As part of my work I run training courses on bouncy castle safety but you would be amazed how often I see it being completely ignored. The safe way to use them is for children to be on only with children the same size/ build as themselves, only a couple at a time- not jam packed on, and any glasses, jewellery, shoes etc to be removed, also no flips/ somersaults or climbing on the sides. If children are not sticking to the rules then they must get off. After 9 years of working with children and bouncy castles I have had to deal with 3 serious injuries, a badly sprained ankle, a broken arm, and a split eye lid :eek: They all occured while the children were being told to get off for disobeying the rules!

The amount of parents who want 3 yr olds to go on with 15 yr old bro or sis! Even after explaining why they can't they give you attitude, when I'm sure these would be the same ppl threatening litigation when an accident happens! There should be stricter legislation on operating procedures for bouncy castle hire etc IMO.

Sorry to take off topic!

fernliebee

minimoneysaver wrote: »

Surely having one year olds on a bouncy castle is dangerous? The bones and muscles in their legs won't be strong or mature enough to support the impact of a bounce.

Your right they wouldn't have the muscle strength for a proper bounce, but I suspect 'sponsored bounce' is the wrong name for it- more like sponsored wobbly crawl! Doesn't quite have the same ring to it though! It is hilarious watching toddlers on the bouncy castle, and they are much safer on there than the 8+ year olds who jump so high :eek:

In response to OP's Q (at last! finally got to the point! ) I think that many 1 yr olds would have a fab time on a bouncy castle, but running a sponsored event when they are too little to understand it is not right IMO. I also agree that fundraising for the nursery is not really on though I would not object to them collecting in a different way ie cake sale/ table top sale etc if ALL proceeds were going to a charity. As far as saying anything, I would be inclined to 'lose' the form, and say nothing unless they specifically ask. If they ask, I would prob say you had no problem with him bouncing, but don't agree with the sponsoring and leave it at that, if they don't let him bounce he prob won't be the only one and for their own benefit prob won't let children not bouncing watch as they would have to 'police' that and it sounds like a logistical nightmare, they wld prob let them all have a go. Hope it's resolved soon.

jenhug

Our daughter's nursery was non profit, so each year the children had a sponsored bounce to raise money for new equipment.
I would ask the charity too.