Daycare ?: Changing socks

sju

DS always comes home with sand or dirt inside his shoes from playing outside in the playground twice a day.   I have never complained because I understand kids will get dirty.  I don't care if he comes home with dirty clothes.   However, I am noticing that he is coming home with more and more sand inside his socks and in between his toes.  The amount of sand in his shoes last night was ridiculous, and I feel bad that he spends most of his day with sand in between his toes. 

This morning I mentioned it to the teacher and asked if she could please change his socks during the day so he was more comfortable.  She told me "I don't have time and I only change clothes if there is an accident but I will tell the afternoon teacher and see if she is willing to do it".  I never complain about anything to her so I was pretty annoyed by her response.  I totally understand that she has other kids to care for but I also feel that changing a pair of socks does not take THAT much time.  I was clear that I was not asking for a whole outfit change.

Am I being unreasonable here?  His report showed that he was "very fussy" yesterday and I wonder if it was related to him being uncomfortable.  Ugh!

beckys96

I don't think you are being unreasonalbe.  I mean its just SOCKS not the whole outfit.  I would think they would want to do that before they came inside so they didn't have all that sand in the rooms. 

MrsSayre3.20.04

I don't think you're being unreasonable. A caregiver should be willing to abide by your wishes, especially when it's something so relatively minor.

Pesky

I don't think you are being unreasonable and the teacher's response was out of line.  I know during diaper changes, particularly dirty diapers, the teachers at our daycare usually remove the socks anyway, so that could be the perfect time to swap socks and rinse the feet.  Two things:  first, see if you can find socks that hug his calves a bit more so less likely for sand to get in there (Carter's are decent for that).  Second, your option:  you can wait and see if it happens again, then go to the office/director or, given the teacher's response, go straight to the director.  You can handle it very easily with a "Given her response to my request, which I hardly view as a time-consuming one, I'm baffled as to how to solve this problem, especially as DS's feet can easily get chafed from all that sand constantly rubbing his feet.  How do you propose we solve this problem?" 

snickerdoodle27

I don't think you're being unreasonable. I know how uncomfortable I am when I have something in my shoe! if you dont' get anywhere with the teacher I'd speak to the director. It will take less than 5 minutes to change his socks.

sju

Thanks everyone!  Today was much better when I picked DS up.  I guess the pm teacher (which is much sweeter in general) took care of the issue.

Pesky-thanks for the rec about Carters.  I will buy a pair to see if those help.  DS has many types socks from Walmart brand to GAP, and sand gets inside all of them even when they look tight in the ankle.