WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

Ok.. first off

#1 I’m not upset
#2 this *IS* Texas so its not ‘that’ cold out here but it was in the 60s yesterday with a breeze

Ok.. so Tuesday night we had horrific thunderstorms. I’m talking shaking the house, sounds like it hit the house every time, no delay from light to sound, pounding rain that resulted in tornados hitting town. We had flooding, power outages and a mess on Wednesday.

I go to pick up AJ and she’s soaked wet. I sent her to school in a long sleeve shirt, with her short sleeve polo uniform shirt on top. Long pants, thick socks and a hoodie. I ask why she’s wet and they say they went outside to jump in the puddles. She has rain boots at school.

She has obvious water marks up to her biceps on both of her arms. Her shoes are off and she’s got water half way up calves. Her socks are cold and wet.

Her hoodie was in an entirely different room, I picked that up first and it was bone dry.

I tell her to take her socks off, we put her dry shoes bare on and go home. I get home and peel off her wet clothes and she’s freezing. Her thighs were wet too. Poor thing.

So here’s my WWYD:

She has spare clothes at school (two sets no less, including two sets of socks)
She wasn’t dripping wet, but soaked. Like its been awhile. She’s walking around helping the ‘teacher’ clean up, put up etc. This is a new teacher for after school.

I want to know what happened. Do I ask?
I mean why take her outside without a jacket (its cold enough)?
Why would you let kids jump in puddles at 60 degrees?
Why wouldn’t you change her?
Why leave her wet socks on?

Or do I just let it go?

Message edited 1/26/2012 12:54:36 PM.

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

I would say something only because she had a change of clothes there. What is the point of keeping them there if they don't plan on using them? I wouldn't ask in an accusatory way, but more like a "hey, what's up with that" kind of way.

Jumping in the puddles sounds like fun. That wouldn't bother me (as long as it happened after the thunderstorm).

Is it possible the teacher asked the kids if anyone wanted to change into dry clothes, and your daughter opted not to?

Message edited 1/26/2012 1:06:43 PM.

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

I would definitely call and ask all of the questions you listed. For whatever reason, she got wet. There is no reason for them not to have changed her though.

Good luck!

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

I'd definitely call- they should have put her in the dry clothes. I think the jumping in puddles is fun and all- as long as they dry off after

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

Personally I would never want my child playing outside in the rain at school. I would have a lot to say.

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I'd definitley be calling.

We used to get in trouble for sending a kid home with a "milk mustache". Forget it if we sent them home soak and wet!

I would just ask why there were out and why in the world they didn't use the extra clothes to change her into when they came back in!

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

I would wonder why my kid was wearing wet clothes when there were dry clothes for her to change in to.

Did you ask AJ if the teacher asked her if she wanted to change in to dry clothes? Did any other kids change after going outside? Does she (AJ) know that she has clothes there to change in to?

Once I found out the answers to those questions then I might call the teacher and just do some simple questioning along the same lines as the questions above. Then I would tell the teacher that I prefer AJ be changed in to her dry clothes should she get wet (above the normal wet sleeves from hand-washing or spilled drink).

If you prefer that AJ not go outside when it rains then you could also address that at this time also.

Although it's a little strange because common sense says to change a wet kid in to something dry

Message edited 1/26/2012 2:44:39 PM.

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

Jumping in puddles is FUN!!! It's cool that the school does that...


Next time you see the teacher just say, "The next time she gets wet jumping in the puddles , please change her clothes.. Thanks".

Re: WWYD? Wet kid at pick up (toddler/clothes)

Called the director didn’t slam her just asked for my own sake. Started off by asking if I had dry clothes (which I do of course) and she led me to the story. I agree jumping in puddles *IS* fun. Being wet is not.

She says the teacher is new and probably didn’t realize AJ had clothes in the other room. However, that long without dry stuff is not standard so she’ll ask and find out more.

I have no problem with her being wet. I wish she had her jacket on, but its not the end of the world. I do hope this isn’t routine (letting them sorta air dry).

We’ll see…


ETA: she said the arms were probably due to AJ doing dishes (they clean up at school).

Message edited 1/26/2012 3:41:39 PM.