Has Daycare ever thrown your kid's clothes away? (Gross warning)

numeria11 · November 2012

So apparently yesterday DD somehow got 1/2 her diaper off at daycare and then proceeded to poop in her actual pants. Rather than just bag them up in a garbage bag and give them to me at the end of the day the girl in her room just threw them away. So when I came to pick up DD the girl says "Oh yeah she had this problem and they were just gross so I threw them away, but I bagged up her socks so here those are." I was like "Umm ok??"

But seriously WTF who throws away someone elses clothes? If they were that nasty I would have decided if they were worth keeping or not but don't just throw my kid's clothes away. So am I crazy? Does your daycare provider throw your kid's clothes way?

TrixieMonroe · November 2012

My center goes as far as to rinse them out and they'll wash and dry them if need be. I would be really upset too, especially if the outfit was expensive (which I don't usually send to daycare).

Sonadora · November 2012

No, they bag and give them to us. I'd be really unhappy if they tossed her clothes, that's my decision to make, if I want to spend the time trying to clean it or not.

Libby1978 · November 2012

I think that's weird.

TheBub · November 2012

We use an in-home, and she would wash and dry them.

I would be a little pissed.

MrsJakes · November 2012

I would be really annoyed with that. She should have just rinsed them out and gave them to you in a plastic bag.

mben1119 · November 2012

I would be superpissed. DCP just rinses DS's clothes and bags them for us, then I get to decide.

kmm2150 · November 2012

Sometimes they rinse and bag her clothes, sometimes they just go straight in the bag, no rinsing, depending on how dirty the clothes are and how busy the teacher is. I think their policy is actually not to rinse anything at all (for sanitary reasons, so that they are not touching stuff and spreading it around on different surfaces), but if they have time (or if they think the outfit's really cute haha) they will. I don't think they'd ever throw something away, even if it was absolutely destroyed.

Glitter Pop · November 2012

Our preschool said that they will throw away underwear if he poops in them, but they never said anything about clothes.

numeria11 · November 2012

They weren't overly expensive maybe 8 bucks. But they were cute sweats with ruffles on the butt and one of probably 4 pairs of pants I knew we could easily use for potty training since she could get them on and off easily on her own.

insertclevername · November 2012

Our daycare will rinse them off and throw them in a plastic bag. I would be annoyed if they threw them out.

Littledeer84 · November 2012

I would be annoyed and just let her know that next time I would rather shejust bagged them for me to decide. Our DCP just puts everything in a bag for me.

KathrynMD · November 2012

meh - I couldn't get riled up about this. who knows maybe 8 kids were having breakdowns at once or it was right before a meal or whatever. . if this happened alot, yeah, I might get peeved, but IMO they're just clothes, they would inevitably get chocolate or paint or poop on them anyway.

[Deleted User] · November 2012

Yeah, I wouldn't be very happy about that. I mean, people use cloth diapers. I would have asked (well, insisted really) that she pull them out of the trash & bag them up. I would also tell her to do so in the future. I would glare at her the entire time.

ccm1203 · November 2012

KathrynMD:
meh - I couldn't get riled up about this. who knows maybe 8 kids were having breakdowns at once or it was right before a meal or whatever. . if this happened alot, yeah, I might get peeved, but IMO they're just clothes, they would inevitably get chocolate or paint or poop on them anyway.

This!

ginamcp · November 2012

KathrynMD:
meh - I couldn't get riled up about this. who knows maybe 8 kids were having breakdowns at once or it was right before a meal or whatever. . if this happened alot, yeah, I might get peeved, but IMO they're just clothes, they would inevitably get chocolate or paint or poop on them anyway.

I have totally disagree with this. Sure they are just clothes, but they are also just clothes that I paid my money for and therefore want to make the decisions to toss or wash. It's not about whether or not they are going to get stained by something else, they made a decision that isn't really theirs to make.

Our daycare accidentally tossed a brand new onesie when we first started taking Caroline and I was totally annoyed.

nancy30005 · November 2012

I'm really surprised some of y'all get shittty clothes at the end of the day. When I taught pre-school, we rinsed them out, and we had a washer and dryer.

We replaced the back up clothes with the clean ones whenever they were done, or parents could ask for them back.

Then again, that was early 90's, so...

MrsWindyCity · November 2012

I would definitely be annoyed. That's really strange to me. It's not like it's any harder to put something in a plastic bag vs. putting it in a trash bag. I would definitely tell them not to do that in the future.

walkercpa · November 2012

I would be annoyed too...our DCP always just bags up clothes if they get gross in some way. There have been a few that I chose to throw out...but that should be MY choice and not the DCP. Argh.

stdldb29 · November 2012

Our sitter actually washes the clothes if they get nasty (even with food), sometimes I send her in her pajamas and the sitter will wash those before sending them home.

No way would she throw away our clothes.

stdldb29 · November 2012

ginamcp:
KathrynMD:
meh - I couldn't get riled up about this. who knows maybe 8 kids were having breakdowns at once or it was right before a meal or whatever. . if this happened alot, yeah, I might get peeved, but IMO they're just clothes, they would inevitably get chocolate or paint or poop on them anyway.
I have totally disagree with this. Sure they are just clothes, but they are also just clothes that I paid my money for and therefore want to make the decisions to toss or wash. It's not about whether or not they are going to get stained by something else, they made a decision that isn't really theirs to make.
Our daycare accidentally tossed a brand new onesie when we first started taking Caroline and I was totally annoyed.

I agree with ginamcp. Also, my children have no clothes with stains on them- we just spray them with the stuff in the laundry cabinet and wash them and they come out fine. I haven't found a stain I can't get out...

catycate · November 2012

I've been a teacher and I would throw out underwear if it was too gross (or if I had to cut it off), but I've never thrown away pants. I'd tell the teacher just to bag them from now on.

Wufroggy79 · November 2012

I think it is a little odd they threw them out without your permission.

Kitiara5512 · November 2012

TrixieMonroe:
My center goes as far as to rinse them out and they'll wash and dry them if need be. I would be really upset too, especially if the outfit was expensive (which I don't usually send to daycare).

This. We have favorite shirts and if it was one of those, I would be pissed. Ask them if they are going to discount your weekly fees or replace the outfit that you could have washed.

megzway · November 2012

Meh. DD first daycare did that once because she had explosive diareha. I've even done it w/ DD's clothes. Her 2nd daycare would wash and dry them because they washer and dryers on site. I guess it depends on the facility and the extent of yuck.

Lilywildcat · November 2012

I am a home DCP and i would never throw away a child's clothes, even if they were stained with poop, puke, paint, food or what have you. I send the clothes home and the parents can make the decision for themselves. At the very least, I rinse the clothes and send them home in a bag and if i have my own kids laundry to do, i will toss my DC kids clothes in with my kids wash.

I once had a parent get upset with me because i would NOT throw out dirty/stained clothes. It first started with a diaper shirt that got stained when the child had a diaper blow out but the mom got outright mad another time when the kid's socks got dirty (due to walk/ park, and shoes that were too big. Plus, the kid was 2 yrs old, kids get dirty! The mom said it was 'gross' to send dirty or stained clothes home and told me just to throw them out. I told her i would not throw anything out, i would send them home and she make that decision herself.

MaxandRuby · November 2012

It wouldn't bother me. My kids wear clothes to daycare (and their spare clothes at daycare) that I wouldn't care if they got thrown away. Yeah, I suppose they should let the parent make the decision but if they were really as gross as they told me, then I'd probably be pitching them when I got home anyway.

ktnicole · November 2012

EXP_626:
On a semi-related tangent, I once got super-drunk and puked all over myself and a bunch of other stuff. While my friends were taking care of me/cleaning me up, they took it upon themselves to throw away my shirt and bra. I was pissed the next morning when I had sobered up. After searching the garbage cans, I got my shirt back. We never found my bra. This was like 10 years ago and I'm still a little irritated.

And this is why I need to remember to come to this board more often. BTW does this look familiar?

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