A dinner lady has pulled out my child's tooth, am I overreacting?

fawd1

I think I might have been slightly surprised at the dinner lady pulling the tooth out, but not particularly worried. I also thought whilst reading this that if, as OP says, her daughter is a drama queen, then surely even if the tooth had just a tiny bit of resistance to it, she would have screamed like a banshee and immediately told her mum (and everyone else) about how much it hurt etc etc? I can still remember having teeth fall out (baby teeth obviously, bit young for adult teeth to be going yet!) and I do remember it would always always hurt loads to try and pull them out until they were literally just hanging.

Georgiegirl256

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I personally think you are over reacting...


In my opinion the world has gone mad.... with blame for this that and the other..


Lets go back to when Dinner ladies, School playground helpers etc where like extended family... and in my day we all used to call them 'Auntie xxxx' and if you fell or cut yourself, they would sort your cut out, and then give you a cuddle..


This Dinner lady sounds to me like she is a normal person... who was thinking of your daughter... and was worried she might swallow the tooth..She prob was treating your daughter like she would her own daughter...


This is the OS board... and we should get some of those OS values and mentality back.....

I totally agree with this. When I was at school in the 80's, that's what dinner ladies did, I can remember it happening quite often, they were always pulling kids (mine included) teeth out that were ready to come out.

Total over-reaction OP. If you go up to the school kicking off, prepare to be known as the 'drama queen parent'

sooty&sweep

I think the dinner lady saw a risk to your daughter and she dealt with it.

You say that the tooth had come away at the back so it was already very wobbly and then your daughter knocked it further so even more wobbly.

By the sounds of it it was already almost out so the dinner lady was making sure it came out safely to put under her pillow rather than she swallowed it.

Do you really need a phone call to tell you that your daughter has lost a tooth ? I certainly wouldn't expect one. Sorry but I do think you're over reacting.
Jen

IrishRose12

I'm disappointed that I missed the opportunity for the Op replying to my last post. It was a genuine question and I have no smart replies, I genuinely wanted to know if there were any marks at all on the childs face.

Damn my laptop battery going dead:mad:

victory

carlamarie wrote: »

Sorry I said I will not be replying anymore, this is my last one!

You are exactly right, I was going to go into the school and kick off. I decided to ask opinions before I did this, the general agreement is that this is the wrong thing to do. After calming down and taken these opinions into account I have DECIDED not to go along with my original plan of storming into the school.

I'm glad:D

Ches

heavenleigh wrote: »

I'd be furious, if some dinner lady stuck her hand in my childs mouth and pulled out a wobbly tooth.

Nothing to do with age. I am 70 years old and I totally agree with this poster. If I had been that dinner lady there is no way would I have acted in this way.

apesxx

Haven't read all the replies but I think your probably over reacting. I got a phonecall to say DD had banged her mouth and was quite distressed. Rushed down to school and the tooth was hanging by a thread ( this is a tooth that wasn't that wobbly before). Quick tug on the tooth and it came out, cue huge smiles from DD who then ran back into school without a backwards glance to show off her nice big gap to her friends!
A tooth is really really hard to pull out if it's not very loose, so it must have been on the last threads of gum for the dinner lady to be able to pull it!

Ches

meritaten wrote: »

ahhhh - the archetypal parent who kicks off! who will 'sue' if their precious child has a finger laid on them - even if its to help them.
You certainly haven't done yourself any favours posting on here - where sensible people are.
People like you are the reason our kids cant get a hug or cuddle when hurt or upset.
People like you are the reason they cant get a plaster put on a cut or graze.
People like you are the reason parents are called in to school for minor matters.
people like you are the reason staff have to fill out forms over minor incidents.
Proud of yourself? I think you are.

Now whos over reacting??

helzbelz_57

apologies for hijacking this thread but I rarely use this forum and am still learning how to navigate my way round. is there a way to mark the last post on a thread that I have read so that when I come back to it again it takes me to the last post I read rather than having to scroll through for it? not so much a problem on this thread but on the larger ones I get lost very easily. I have subscribed to this thread but it only takes me to the top of page one when I open it.

DaveTheMus

Get a grip of yourself!

All the time people complain about 'health and safety gone mad' and when a dinner lady exercises a bit of common sense you're 'fuming'.