Troubled parents have taken to Reddit to voice their anger over an incident where a nursery took it upon themselves to trim their tot's hair.
Uploading the call for advice yesterday, user cypherspaceagain wrote - under the title 'Nursery cut hair without permission or informing us' - the following shocking account:
"As title says. Picked 15mo daughter up today after very long day at work, didn't notice anything (I'm a stereotypical male and don't notice hair stuff) until I sent a video to the other half.
"She went ballistic at me thinking I'd cut it, I went ballistic at her (after finding out what the hell she was going ballistic about) thinking she must have cut it and was messing with me.
"After we'd both calmed down we established that neither of us had cut it, but it has clearly been cut (see photos below). There was no mention of anything at all like this when I picked her up. What would you do? I'm quite astonishingly angry."
Here you can see the picture of the tot's blonde locks on Sunday night compared to...
Monday evening:
Unsurprisingly, fellow Reddit users could totally understand where the enraged parents were coming from.
They wrote:
"Honestly, even if there was a good reason (like something got stuck in her hair), I would think it was a red flag that they didn't inform you when you picked her up. If she has a communication book, at a minimum it should be noted in there."
And another added:
"It's the communication rather than the action which is the big problem here. At our nursery they would give us a run down of what she had been doing that day, what she's eaten, and certainly if she's had any accidents etc.
"You don't intervene in such a way with a child unless it's an emergency and emergency situations do not go without mention!"
And like the commenters quoted above, most people urged them to speak to the nursery, assuming there must be a logical explanation - although not informing the child's mum or dad of any out of the ordinary occurrences is not acceptable.
Advice of which the parents clearly followed, as they updated the post later with the following feedback from the child's care givers:
"Nursery can find no explanation. They do not have access to scissors in her room (which is still a baby room rather than a toddler room). No staff have admitted to cutting her hair. Nursery admin "can only apologise".
"We're looking for other nurseries, and will submit a formal complaint and possibly notify Ofsted (the nursery inspection people) as they found safeguarding issues with the nursery in a recent inspection.
"I really wish we'd had a decent explanation, but we don't, and I can't trust them any more."
Read the full Reddit thread here.
We must say we are shocked by this - have you ever experienced something similar?
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