Sidebar but I'm surprised your daycare has a sandbox. Ours removed it after some overzealous parents circulated articles about parasites and what not.

I get upset when I send my little girl to preschool and her nice dresses get all dirty. How dare the teacher (who is supervising multiple other children) allow that to happen?!

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Anonymous wrote:Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

Gross. Racist.

How is this racist? Any child that plays in a sandbox is going to get sand all over. A daycare worker that is supervising multiple children can’t stop her kid from getting sand in her hair. Truly, how is this racist?

This cheapens comments that actually ARE racist.

Anonymous wrote:Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

Gross. Racist.

Want individual attention to make sure this doesn’t happen? Hire a nanny.

WTF? She's 3. You're lucky you're not finding more than just sand in her hair.

Ughh I am totally with you, OP. It drives me so crazy. Between sand, mulch and leaves, no one understood that I couldn't just wash my daughter's hair at the end of the day. Don't get me started on crazy hair day popping up out of the blue with not a lot of notice, either.

Ask them to not allow your child to play in the sandbox. That is the only way to ensure it won’t happen again.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh OP sorry for some of these responses, clearly from non-AA posters.

I think it’s definitely worth a conversation with the director. I agree to not talk so much about the cost and time of the hair because they may not understand and/or think it’s frivolous, but no one should be pouring sand on your daughter’s head, period.

And you clearly haven’t been around many 3 year olds in sandboxes.

If you put your child in group care that costs less than a private nanny, you’ll get what you pay for — which is not individual attention. Sand gets everywhere in an instant!

Tell your daughter to play in a different area, or have her wear a hat/scarf/shower cap in the sandbox.

When my son had a cast on his arm, the sandbox was off limits (in an effort to try to keep him clean, which in retrospect - HA!)

Anonymous wrote:So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.

OP here, yes I totally agree 4.5 hours was ridiculous. This was a new braider. Our old braider it would take a little over 2 hours for box braids from start to finish. Other styles similarly took about 2 hours and that included washing and blow drying. This braider is nice, but slow. She did take some breaks in between and luckily it was at our house, so I was able to cook/clean/do stuff around the house and my daughter was able to play with her tablet & eat during the braiding. It is what it is.

Anonymous wrote:Not related, but only $70 for 4.5 hours??? That seems so low. I pay that for a one hour haircut!

We pay by the job, not the hour. That is the case for most hair services, no?

Ugh OP sorry for some of these responses, clearly from non-AA posters.

I think it’s definitely worth a conversation with the director. I agree to not talk so much about the cost and time of the hair because they may not understand and/or think it’s frivolous, but no one should be pouring sand on your daughter’s head, period.

Anonymous wrote:So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.

Maybe OP’s DD is squirmy? Or just tender headed? My eldest would need frequent breaks when getting her hair cornrowed. She was so tender-headed! It probably doubled the total time in the chair.

Braids or no braids - no sand should be poured over a kids head. This is ridiculous.

So my daughter is AA ( I am white) so I get the sand in the hair thing. I would send her with a large floppy hat and tell her if she plays in the sand she needs to wear it. Make sure her teacher knows too. 4 hours is a long time for a kid to sit and have their hair done FYI. I think the price is fine, but why does it take that long. My hair person gets DD’s hair undone, washed, conditioned, rebranded, in less than 2 hours.