A mother was left furious after she found out that a daycare teacher decided to touch her child’s mouth and remove a wobbly tooth even though her daughter told her to stop.
The mother from Melbourne, Australia, took to Twitter and complained about the incident. She claimed that the tooth removal oversteps the body autonomy she has been trying to instill in her child.
Many parents agreed with her but some said that the mother was overreacting and that the daycare teacher’s decision to remove the teeth wasn’t a big deal and even praised the removal.
One parent commented: “A newbie teacher did that at my old school and immediately was dismissed. We don’t wipe their noses so why would we yank out a tooth.
“My elder sister ripped all my wobbly teeth out, she even made them wobbly so she could rip them out! All my teeth are absolutely fine today at 35.”
Another said: “It’s pretty important we empower children to be able to ask an adult to stop touching them.”
A third parent said: “’d be grateful. Nothing worse than pulling teeth I wish one of my kids’ teachers had pulled my kids’ wobbly teeth out! Grossest job out. Parenting really sucks sometimes. Give that worker a medal I say.”
Someone else wrote: “Relax, it’s a tooth, not open heart surgery. Some kids go to school with a tooth barely holding on. If the teacher hadn’t done it, then it could have been swallowed. Good on the teacher for sorting it out.”
Another wrote: “I think what should have been done was for the mother to be notified and to get instruction as to what she wants done and have it documented. Its silly but it would reduce liability. I don’t believe any harm was meant but I do think the mom should have been notified.”
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