S/O smoking nanny

IdigDirt · January 2013

The post below got me thinking, what would you do if a daycare worker smoked? Would it bother you?
I picked LO up the other day and a teacher from another class was in front of me and reaked of smoke. Would this bother you? I know you can fire a nanny for that but this is not my employee so I don't know if I could even say something about it since she isn't breaking rules that I know of.
Just wondering if it would bother you. FTR she will be LOs teacher in 5 months and he had a breathing problem when he was very little so I may be overprotective.

EastCoastBride · January 2013

If their smoking didn't affect them at work, I wouldn't care. But I'd ABSOLUTELY care if they reeked of smoke while at work and taking care of children. I'd talk to the director about this.

RoxyLynn · January 2013

I'd have a huge problem with that. While not calling anyone out directly, I'd check in with the director of the center - "I realized I never checked on this - do you have a non-smoking policy for employees?"

IdigDirt · January 2013

Ok, glad I'm not crazy. My LO likes to be held a lot and I don't want him held by someone smelling of smoke. I will ask his teacher what the smoking policy is and then try to smell her again that sounds bad to make sure I didn't just smell a really smelly parent that had just left.

526SadieSadie · January 2013

If they want to smoke after hours and on weekends that's their business. I wouldn't want a smoker taking care of my kid if they're taking smoke breaks during their shift.

shannm · January 2013

We do have a teacher in another classroom who smells strongly of smoke. Because daycare is a service that I purchase, I will be choosing not to use that service when LO is that age.

FWIW, my parents are smokers and while they don't smoke around us, we all smell like ashtrays when we come back from visiting them. I hate it but I love my parents more. I can't choose my parents, but I can choose my DCP.

Also, if she wants to smoke at home, fine. But if you need to take breaks and smoke in your car, and then stink and make the kids stink, eh, I pay too much for that.

Emmakins87 · January 2013

On own time away from my house no problem.

I would have a problem if I had put it out there are a desired trait that they were non smokers and then the lied about it to get the job. Where I will have the ultimate problem is the lies, because if you lie to me about that and you are taking care of my child what else are they not telling the truth about.

MoreThanABride · January 2013

I don't know if there is anything you can do about it, but it would bother me.

RoxyLynn · January 2013

shannm:

FWIW, my parents are smokers and while they don't smoke around us, we all smell like ashtrays when we come back from visiting them. I hate it but I love my parents more. I can't choose my parents, but I can choose my DCP.

We ended up just having to meet at our place or in public spaces. My parents' house smells god-awful and two of the three of us would have some sort of respiratory problem after leaving. It sucks, but it's the best solution for us.

TheyCalledHerKate · January 2013

I am a FTM but I plan to ask during our daycare tours in the coming weeks about their smoking policies. I don't want my child exposed to third hand smoke and would not want someone to hold my child after they've smoked (especially if they haven't washed their hands) but the residue also stays on their clothes.

boogerbearoriginal · January 2013

It would bother me too, because all the tar/nicotine/etc is on their hands/clothes and has been shown to transfer to others.

I think PP had a great suggestion to ask the Director if they have a non-smoking policy. If they don't have any policy I'm not sure there's much you can do outside of switching to a different care provider.

Cheerio B · January 2013

If my baby came home smelling like smoke I would say something. DS comes home smelling like perfume sometimes so I imagine if someone were smoking and then holding him I would smell it.

But if the center allows smokers to work there there's nothing else you can do.

azuremama · January 2013

Our daycare lets workers smoke. I have never smelled smoke on them inside, but I have seen some of them outside having a cigarette. My big issue is that I don't want the kids seeing their teachers smoking. I just think that sets a bad example.

If they reeked of smoke inside, it'd bother me more, but I have never noticed it.

emberlee3 · January 2013

One of the teachers in the infant room at DS's school is a smoker, and I am looking for an alternative school for DD. she has a nanny now, but I would like to put her in school this summer. I have thought about this a lot. I don't want DD around any smokers.

h2babe · January 2013

It would absolutely bother me. When I toured daycare centers - they said that they couldn't stop their employees (caregivers) from smoking on their breaks/lunch time, but they recommend that their employees to wash up. Obviously, I ended up with a nanny - and I am very strict with this as well (my nanny's boyfriend sometimes smokes, so I told her that she needs to make sure that she doesn't smell like cigarettes before she comes into work).

lrn327 · January 2013

Come to think of it, I don't know that our DC has a specific policy but they must b/c I've never, ever smelled smoke on a single teacher there.

ghostof5letters · January 2013

It wouldn't bother me. I've never smoked and neither has my husband, but I wouldn't freak over someone who smokes on their lunch break. Maybe if DD had breathing/lung issues, but she doesn't.

Honestly, I think it would be discrimination if the school had a smoking policy that banned it all together. What they do on their own time, is up to them.

Your only recourse would be to switch schools.

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