My friend received a beer along with a card fir father's day from a private nursery. He doesn't think it is a mental thing to do. I am right in saying this is a strange present to send a kid home with. For a man the nursery practitioners hardly know. I'm assuming there will be a proportion of dad's that can't drink or don't drink.
by Money-Cod6899
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Yeah this is very weird
Yes really weird. Lots of people don’t drink for a variety of reasons (and even if they do they might not particularly like Corona). Why not chocolates or biscuits? It’s a strange message.
Yeah, it’s weird and inappropriate. I hate the assumption that everyone in the UK drinks alcohol.
It’s completely normal just like someone giving a woman a bottle of Wine/Prosecco
It is maybe slightly strange, but I suppose they didn’t really think too much about it, a sort of what do men like, maybe they like beer
What if yer da is a recovering alcoholic?
Equally, I’d bet most male adults drink alcohol at some point in the year. Very few will be completely teetotal.
Take it for what it is. Underpaid nursery staff coming up with something for the kids to take home to a parent with a card made by them for an activity in the 10 hours your child is in their care.
I work in a private nursery, and this is bonkers. We don’t know who drinks and who doesn’t, or who may have substance abuse problems. And appropriateness aside, most private settings are having to charge top up fees to cover costs right now. What a stupid thing to spend money on.
It’s different!
Aren’t all nurseries private?
The card they drew of them stabbing their dad in the mouth while he lies on the floor (yes, I know the card has been stood upright, but I thought it was funny how little Johnny now looks like a clenched fist holding a stick). Also: good job none of those children had access to a bottle opener while they were at the nursery that day..
Aren’t there laws about buying alcohol with the explicit intention of handing it to children?
Controversy aside that card is adorable.
No it’s not that strange. I’d you don’t drink give it to someone else, it’s the thought that counts.
Maybe I’d advise them not to do it next year exactly because of the reaction it’s getting in here but that’s the extent of it. I wouldn’t be making complaints