It's rather trivial I'm afraid.
DD's wellies went missing from nursery a while ago, we don't know when as they hadn't been used for ages over the summer. The staff have been keeping an eye out for them, they had DD's name in so they checked lost property and the spare clothes cupboard etc.
They turned up on another child's feet, staff said there'd been a mix up and the wrong child had taken them but they spotted them, saw DD's name inside and and gave them back to DD. When I took them off her, the other child's name was written over my DD's!
I understand that sometimes mix ups do occur, but to write your own child's name OVER my child's, that's not a mix up, that's theft.
So we crossed child 2's name out and wrote DD's name again in permanent marker, inside and outside. Lesson learned.
Now if they could just return the 2 mittens DD has lost... (or even one would do, at least then she'd have a matching pair instead of wearing the remaining odd 2 together!)
AIBU?
To be shocked by this?
CrohnicallyAspie · 28/09/2015 14:22
I would complain to the nursery and point out the blatant theft and ask what action they will take against the other parent. They should at least talk to them!
It's awful, it happened with DSs £40 winter coat the first time he took it to nursery, he had only had it a couple of days, I had written his name on all the labels, it turned up 18 months later, well worn with all the labels cut out 
some people are just so shamelessly scummy.
This happened to my sons jacket, the first time he wore it it went missing, turned up in the cloakroom 2 weeks later with another kids name written under his, they didn't every to write over his name
I let the school know what had happened and a non specific letter was sent out reminding parents what the procedure is if their child " accidentally" comes home in the wrong jacket! I obv label all my kids stuff, but as well as writing it in I also write their initials somewhere hidden, like inside a pocket so that they can't just cut the labels out/scrub over names, and in this particular denim jackets case I sewed patches all over it, outlaw style, no more stealing! 
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Ok so once I was at a toddler group when DD1 was little, we were the last to leave and her coat was the last one there... Except when we got home I realised it was exactly the same coat but with someone else's name written in it Had no idea who the other person was, it wasn't a group I went to very often. So what else could I do? I crossed the name out and wrote DD's, figuring the other parent would probably do the same. Is it possible this is what's happened?
People who do this have the very brassiest of brass necks.
I'd be itching to challenge them.
Except there wasn't an identical pair left behind, campervan 
Sadly it's not unusual.
When DD1 was in nursery we lost 5 tops over the school year. The nursery claimed it was the little girl whose peg was next to DD, she was always getting her sleeves wet so would change the top but was getting tops out of DD's bag instead of her own. We did eventually get 2 of them back but when I asked the nursery about them again they said 'oh well that mum has 5 children, she probably doesn't know whose tops are whose as she'll have so much washing' .
As a PP said I know if one of my DC comes home with clothing that isn't theirs and I have 4 DC.
I've had this too. DS2 is now 14 but when he was around 8 or 9 I bought him two new school logo fleeces (the zip up jacket type). The first time he wore one of them it went missing. DS2 told me that XX had "pinched it off me & told the teacher it was his". It had DS2's name sewn in but apparently the teacher just took XX's word for it and didn't even check.
I spoke to XX's mum along the lines of "there seems to have been a mix-up with the boys fleeces today. Could you please check to see whether you have DS2's?" Days later she stomped over & told me she didn't have it and her DS "doesn't even own a fleece so there can't have been a mix-up". I spend the rest of the term seeing her DS in a fleece and wondering about it's origin.
This was September. The following July a very dirty & extremely well worn fleece turns up in the end of term lost property pile. With DS2's name still sewn in. I claim it & then XX's mother has the cheek to walk over to me in the playground and tell me that I've taken her DS's fleece from lost property! She knows it's his because she recognises a mark on it! I then show her DS2's name sewn in (I always sew them in a slightly unusual place to avoid people removing them!) - she obviously had had this fleece for the entire school year without noticing the name.
No word of apology, no nothing. She just said "well it's tatty now anyway" and stomped off. I may have tracked down the teacher in question & shown her the DS2 had been telling the truth after all 
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Get used to it 
. Grown adults steal things.
The lesson is not to send your child to school with anything expensive if you can help it at all, to sew name tags into unusual spots (way into a sleeve or inside a hem, etc) and if you know for sure that X child is wearing your own child's item, go to the school and insist on a check there in front of you.
You should also send a letter to the school admin every time an item of your child's is clearly stolen (not just carelessly lost by your child). Don't make a big fuss at home about it, try to avoid giving your child the impression that you are feeling helpless and angry about theft, but make sure the school knows there is a problem.
If the nursery says nothing, or appears to be doing nothing, press them persistently.
Ah I remember those years.
My mother was brilliant at the 'sew in a slightly wonky name label at the collar then also add an embroidered set of initials in the hem and cuffs.'
Having done this to my new school duffel coat (warm, and expensive, my much loved Paddington coat) which went missing on day 2 she marched across the playground and snatched the coat off another kid's back.
Said kid's mum started screeching that my mother was mad, she would sue her for slander, etc, and pointed to the name label in the collar... and my mother called her a liar and a thief whilst displaying my initials in the hem and both cuffs.
I have never been so glad that dad's iffy work record meant we moved every year or so 
Ah, the memories
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