Curiosity Approach Day Nursery?

Hello, I'm 34 weeks pregnant, UK and looking for some advice/experiences! We are first time parents so we might be worried about nothing!We've been looking at private day nurseries (daycares) recently as little one will be going to nursery at about 9 months old so we can work.Some of the nurseries we've seen are using the "Curiosity Approach" which in principle sounds great and we loved the idea of it. From what I'd read it was essentially swapping out the plastic tea sets for porcelain ones so kids learn respect for the items they're using.The thing is, when we went to see the nursery and have a look around we saw some items in the rooms that are part of the Curiosity Approach that made us uncomfortable. There's a baby room which is kids 3 months - 2 years and they had broken computer keyboards, broken phones and other broken handheld devices like a broken Nintendo DS and PSP. When we looked in the toddler rooms and pre-school rooms for 2-5 years olds they had items such as broken kettles, pans, butter knives, forks and broken microwaves.My partner pointed out if you dropped that keyboard in the baby room, the keys are more than likely to fall off, or a child could easily pull them off creating an instant choking hazard. If the broken phones were dropped the screens could smash and leave broken glass everywhere, or a teething kid could get hold of one and try to use it as a chew toy and potentially get a mouth full of broken glass. The pots, pans and kettle were just in the room, not part of a mock kitchen, and he pointed out that a kid could play with a kettle at nursery fine, then come home and try and grab a freshly boiled kettle off the counter and burn himself, or grab a pan off the hob and pour hot food on themselves because they aren't perceived as a dangerous object.Is this normal to be worried? Is he worried about far fetched situations that probably won't happen? Is there any basis to this approach of letting them play with pans instead of teaching them to cook being better for kids in the long run? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/37ZrHlP