- May 4, 2009
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Mostly a question for parents but anyone can weigh in. I am really curious about something. I went to the gym early this morning and spent a good 2 hours cleaning. We had a pre school class for 45 minutes and when they left all of 3 students plus parents and siblings in the halls the floors were trashed (food smashed on the floor, juice spilled), there was garbage everywhere (juice boxes, wrappers) and all the books and magazines I had put nicely back on the shelves were everywhere including the floor. And this happens every day, not just today. I also find an awful lot of coffee stains all over the new carpet we put in last summer. (Not many 3 year olds I know drink coffee so that is the parents.)
So my question is and I really am looking for honesty do people think because they pay for their kid to attend gym class that it is full service? Like it is okay to dump food everywhere and leave garbage everywhere and it is somehow the gyms responsibility to clean up after you and your tot? Or is it I clean up enough after my kid at home so I'll just let him go wild at the gym and let someone else deal with the aftermath? I am actually curious because obviously people think it is okay and they must rationalize it somehow. So what goes through ones head when little Suzie dumps her animal crackers all over the floor and starts stomping on them? Personally I think it is completly disrespectful but I don't have kids. Is it just an overwhelming thing? I know if I drop something all over I pick it up, and if I spill a drink the least I would do is alert someone so that it doesn't ruin the carpet. Any thoughts or ideas?
Oh yeah I forgot to add these pre school parents are the first to complain, in just the last week I have heard, the carpet needs to be vaccuumed (it is twice a week, why do you let your kids throw food on it?) the windows are smugged and I can't see (Why do you let you kids suction cup their faces to them?) and my favorite, the paint is peeling on the window seals, why is it peeling you ask? Because people let their kids pick at it.
So my question is and I really am looking for honesty do people think because they pay for their kid to attend gym class that it is full service? Like it is okay to dump food everywhere and leave garbage everywhere and it is somehow the gyms responsibility to clean up after you and your tot? Or is it I clean up enough after my kid at home so I'll just let him go wild at the gym and let someone else deal with the aftermath? I am actually curious because obviously people think it is okay and they must rationalize it somehow. So what goes through ones head when little Suzie dumps her animal crackers all over the floor and starts stomping on them? Personally I think it is completly disrespectful but I don't have kids. Is it just an overwhelming thing? I know if I drop something all over I pick it up, and if I spill a drink the least I would do is alert someone so that it doesn't ruin the carpet. Any thoughts or ideas?
Oh yeah I forgot to add these pre school parents are the first to complain, in just the last week I have heard, the carpet needs to be vaccuumed (it is twice a week, why do you let your kids throw food on it?) the windows are smugged and I can't see (Why do you let you kids suction cup their faces to them?) and my favorite, the paint is peeling on the window seals, why is it peeling you ask? Because people let their kids pick at it.