Banned!

Ew ew ew

I find this really sad - that a child would be "banned" from an activity just because they dont conform to someone elses belief about how to play in a sandpit. Oli used to eat sand in any sandpit he could get to...(playgroup, home, the beach...) but he has grown out of it now. I would never stop him playing in a sandpit because of it, but explain to him that it was going to hurt his bottom coming out and he figured it out for himself!

Hmmm I wonder why its a health & safety thing? I would probably rather he ate sand than playdough with all the colour and stuff in it!

 

I find this really sad too.

The teachers are there to educate your child, and they should be showing him different ways of playing in the sandpit.   And I agree with Bizzy, there are so many learning opportunities that kids can get from the sandpit and after all it is the teachers job to teach children, not alienate them from an activity because they aren't doing it properly.

Is the sand pit uncovered? They may be concerned as to who visits outside hours (cats or maybe teens etc) that may leave yucky things in the sand...but why not just teach that is isn't good for people to eat sand??

Kindy is rural and I hate to think what goes in that sand after hours >< They've tried to teach him since he was allowed to go when he started that sand isnt for eating - but he'll sneek in and eat it when they're not looking - completely gross! He's very very constipated now because of the sand eating - honestly, before they stopped him going in, his poo was so tight and crumbly the poor little thing was crying because he couldnt go.

They've given him other fun things to do to help out instead of playing in the sand. He likes to take care of the kids who are smaller than him, so he'll go get toys, push them around in the walkers etc etc. He was a bit miffed on the first day but once he discovered all the fun things he could do other than being in there, he's been fine.
It honestly doesnt bother me - i'd rather my little man be able to go to the toilet instead.

Lol @ the bananas, thomas is like that with his museli bars! If clever daddy leaves the container at the edge of the bench (what is it with males doing that?) Thomas has been known to eat the entire container - that's over 20 bars. EEK!

Oh man, I used to eat so much dirt that it would make me physically sick apparenly. Once I grew out of that, it was chalk. Boxes of the stuff :P
Its crazy as tho, if it was a little bit then yea, i would be a bit concerned about them banning him - I should really have said in my first post about how much it actually was! my bad.