Socks = Gloves?

[BuggedMei]

Working daycare! Woo!

Short Background! Most kids have a second or third set of clothes bumming around in case of potty accidents or extremely messy days.

Its been getting warmer out, thankfully. Now we can take the kids outside and they can exhaust their cute little selves out all they want.

If a parent sends the kid to the center with a jacket, we have to put the in the jacket when they go outside. Hat? Hat HAS to stay on. I've gotten in trouble for letting a little girl run around without her scarf after it kept getting caught on EVERYTHING no matter how I tied it to keep it from getting under her feet.

Its warm enough for a light windbreaker or hoodie out, so most kids are in light jackets. There was a little bit of wind out but nothing to consider "cold", about 70 out. Perfect springy weather.

N is one of my kids for the day. He has a little windbreaker and the most adorable hat that he wore all afternoon. N's mother comes to pick him up. He runs up to her all smiles and she picks N up. I approach her to tell her about his day. She puts N down and gives me the death glare.

M(N's mom): Why are N's hands freezing?!?!?!?
Me: Excuse me? Its not that cold out here.. If you'd like to send him gloves to wear I'll-
M: HE DOES NOT NEED GLOVES HE HAS SOCKS.
Me: socks?
M: WHENEVER HE GOES OUTSIDE HE SHOULD BE WEARING SOCKS ON HIS HANDS. HIS HANDS ARE FREEZING HE WILL GET FROSTBITE AND I WILL SUE FOR NEGLIGENCE.
Me: Uh.. erm... I'll make sure he has socks on from now on...
M: Well he better!!

She practically yanks N inside and complains to the AssistantBossLady who gets in my face at the end of the day for letting one of the kids "freeze".

....now, little N has to wear socks on his hands whenever we go outside. He keeps pulling them off and he can't quite climb on some of the toys outside due to his hands slipping, but, the parent insists...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You mean some guy somewhere pulled the pigskin bus into this particular tuna town?

I went out in 70 degree weather without socks on my hands, and I turned out fine.

[Sheldonrs]

I understand completely. Many's the time I've used socks to keep warm.

[Bandit]

So - Mother of the Year is worried that pweshuh's hands might be cold?

My sympathies when she find pweshuh's feet pushing hypothermia *because* mommy asked to have the socks turned to mittens.


Some children's parents........

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[Amina516]

I really feel like you should be writing this all down and making the parents sign it.

F'in idjits.

[crazylegs]

Heh - over here it's only crims who do this, it means they don't leave fingerprints but don't have anything incriminating on them...

[Mr Hero]

Of course! The parent provides socks for the child to keep hands warm! It was all so obvious!

[r2cagle]

I'd have to draw the line at underwear on the head to keep the ears warm though.

[Magpie]

Did this mother not notice that her child had grown past the age where children normally use hand-socks? Seriously, I thought those were for infants, not toddlers.

[Nayeli_Sabia]

This is almost the reverse of what happened to my brother. The School Nurse called my mom to chew her out for my brother's "freezing" fingers, because he got to school without gloves on. She said his fingers were so cold that she had to put them under her arms to warm them up(ew). My mom's response was that he left with them, it was his own fault that they didn't make it the less than 5 minutes it took to get there. (Elementary school, we were walkers, lived less 1/3 of a mile away)

[chainedbarista]

but didn't you know? all cases of frostbite occur at 70 degrees! for shame!

seriously, this woman is NUTS with a side of stupid.

[Magpie]

I read a book that took place during the SI switch in Canada. The mother told her daughter to bundle up, because it was going to be in the twenties that day. Perhaps this woman recently acquired a Centigrade thermometer?

[Micer]

Did this mother not notice that her child had grown past the age where children normally use hand-socks? Seriously, I thought those were for infants, not toddlers.

I was thinking the same thing, ugh, my eight month old nephew is still using socks because he scratches his face from time to time, but if the kid is able to get up and run around and play, cripes lady, quit being cheap, get some friggen gloves for the little fella!

Least it's warming up, but I can only imagine what'd be her answer to a sunhat.