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With the best will in the world it can be hard to stop a child from tasting snow. Like so many incidents, it happens in a split second. Despite a reminder before going outside, I think the temptation was too much for this child. He had been catching snowflakes on his tongue, which is an absorbing activity and the obvious next step for this guy was to taste a bigger sample! As it was clean, fresh snow I was not unduly worried. It had been yellow... well that's another story.
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I'm sure most of us ate snow as children too. But I'm interested to know your thoughts about this. For me, it typifies how teachers and pre-school practitioners can be made to feel like they are inadequate. Common sense tells us that the risks are low. But we are also responsible for the well-being of children in our care. We talk about children needing to experience "a knot in their stomach" in terms of the need for risk. But sometimes practitioners have their own stomachs so tied in knots that it hurts!
