Accident at nursery

sheramber

Perhaps you should employ a nanny to give her one to one care.

If you don't consider the staff qualified enough to care for your daughter why continue to send her there?

Tigsteroonie

As others have said, we didn't remove all the potential hazards from our house as our son needs to learn to handle risk. As well as the door, the door frame, we have the windowsill (he loves to try to climb up on there), a child-sized chair (convenient for climbing onto said windowsill), a book case ... His worst whoopsie so far was bouncing on the bed in a caravan and he hit his head on the wardrobe, leaving him with a Harry Potter style scar on his forehead.

Accidents will always happen.

onlyroz

If an area for improvement is identified then I'd expect changes to be made.

For example at my kids' school a child fell off the monkey bars and broke her arm. A rule was then put in place that the kids had to change into their PE trainers before using the monkey bars, and that they could only be used during supervised play times (so not in the mornings before lessons had started).

However, young kids fall over or bump heads all the time. I certainly wouldn't be overly concerned about these incidents.

Kynthia

As others have shown you, accidents can happen even when a child is supervised and with no known hazards. However there can be problems with some nurseries or staff that don't follow the rules. Some places can be lax or breach the supervision rules. So do you have reason to believe they were negligent rather than unable to prevent the unpreventable?

If so then question things further and ask to see the video footage (most places have cctv). Also move your child to somewhere you feel is safer and more trustworthy.

iammumtoone

It isn't very nice when your child has an accident in the care of paid childminders.

My son has accidents at home and school, I let them pass as they are just that, accidents. However he also has accidents at the childcare provider, whilst I still let it pass as again I appreciate accidents do happen, these instances annoy me.

It is party due to the fact I am paying them but mainly due to my guilt. I feel he should be with me, friends, family or at school, this isn't possible I have to work and have no family to take care of him so I have to pay. I feel guilty he has to go there so its worse when he gets hurt in their care.

Andypandyboy

Is this child your daughter or your niece? I seem to remember that you mentioned the latter in an earlier post. If she is your niece, what do her parents say about it?

Hermia

VfM4meplse wrote: »

She doesn't have accidents under my supervision, is allowed to roam freely on thick carpet, play with whatever she wants to but I have made sure that the areas she accesses in my home are hazard-free.

Bear in mind that children can behave VERY differently with their family and with other people. A child who plays nicely on their own at home might get very excited and silly when they are surrounded by other children and unfamiliar toys.

theoretica

How old is she? As kids get older and more mobile and adventurous there will be more accidents. Also being stimulated by other kids could add to the boisterousness, distraction and accidents, but I don't see that as an argument for lack of stimulation.

TBagpuss

VfM4meplse wrote: »

She doesn't have accidents under my supervision, is allowed to roam freely on thick carpet, play with whatever she wants to but I have made sure that the areas she accesses in my home are hazard-free.

It's unlikely that there is one-to-one supervision at nursery, and there are a lot more hazards, in the form of the other children, both in that they may present a direct threat to your child if they are inappropriately rough or aggressive, and also in that your child may try to copy or follow an older child, or to join in games which are more energetic etc than she is used to.

If you think there are specific things which you feel the nursery could do to reduce the risk of a similar accident in future, speak to them about that. Think about how practical the changes are, (for instance, a change to having one-to-one supervision might prevent similar accidents, but is unlikely to be practical. A change that means that (say) children are not allowed to play on the climbing unless there is at least a 1:3 ration of staff to children might be.

Haylescom

As a primary school teacher I've seen my school make some changes because of accidents that gave taken place. Usually these are things that are unforeseeable and you don't realise the potential problem until it occurs.

Kids are kids though. I had a child crack his head on the rin of the toilet because hehe was pulling his trousers down as he went into the cubicle. Another cracked her head on a radiator because she wasn't looking. One ran into a PE stall and broke his femur (the bone was weakened by an unknown cyst).

Just today I watched one of mine fall off a chair for no obvious reason whatsoever. I'd not be concerned unless there was a genuine negligent reason for it happening. Even then, if they're taking appropriate steps to prevent it happening again, that would satisfy me.