My son started going to his current pre-school in September and has come home with 3 accident forms. The first two were bumped heads and bruises and despite stating what had happened on the forms, there were “no witnesses”, so how they could tell me exactly what happened is beyond me.
Yesterday, he came home with a 3rd accident form. My other half warned me that he had an accident at school before I opened the front door as he knows that I panic. (A couple of years ago, my son was jumping on the sofa and somehow flipped over the back of it, catching his teeth on the shelf of a bookcase behind the sofa. There was blood everywhere and he was covered. I totally freaked out and didn’t know what to do. Luckily, my husband was able to remain calm and rational. Paramedics came and pulled out the tooth that had been torn out and had wedged itself in his bottom lip. We were then bundled in an ambulance and my son had to have a further 2 teeth taken out under a general, as well as having his gum stitched back together because it was ripped on both sides. Ever since that happened, I can’t cope with him having any kind on injury. If I hear him cry I just freeze and assume it’s going to be awful again.)
I opened the door and he was barely recognizable! He was bleeding from his nose and his top lip was about 5 times bigger than it should’ve been. I looked at the accident form and saw, once again, NO WITNESSES! I find it a little bit too coincidental that there have been 3 accidents that have taken place at the precise moment that the staff just happened to be looking in another direction. I spoke to the manager of the pre-school and she tried to reassure me that he was responded to straight away. Not only that, but there were FOUR members of staff in the garden area at the time. The outside area is small. Just one person could easily see all the kids by just standing in the doorway, so it worries me that there were 4 people and not one person saw the accident happen.
Is this acceptable? Harlan has just turned 4 and has always been clumsy and he is so easily distracted that accidents can, and do happen. But the thing is, if I took him in to school 3 times in 4 months with the same injuries and I told them that no one witnessed what had happened, they would have an obligation to report me. If I went to the doctor and Harlan had these injuries, and again I said nobody had witnessed any of the incidents then they would report me as well!
The manager has acknowledged that Harlan is distracted, full of energy, clumsy and very active, so you would think that after the first 2 accidents, they would keep a better eye on him.
When you leave your child in someone else’s care, you expect them to come home in the same state they were in when you dropped them off.
MissesCee xxx
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