Will my DC get laughed at in secondary if everything is name labelled?

Label uniform with initials in marker pen. Ditto calculator (I still have my Casio with my name scratched on).
Anything else is pretty much a lost cause for DS.

After twice losing her pe kit with her name on the inside, I decided to put them on the outside.

Now if someone else has accidentally picked anything up she/they can see who's wearing her kit! She's not thrilled, but she hasn't lost anything else.

I have iron on labels on all uniform including sports socks and shin pads and from what I can see do do the other children. Why on earth would you not?

I write names on calculators rulers and protractors as they are the ones which will inevitably be missing when they are most needed. Everything else is unlabelled.

My DS's school provides them with individual stationary sets as we have been asked to pay for it. The school's official shop is labelling the lab coats, PE & Games Kits etc. We were also told at parents meeting to label EVERYTHING! The school doesn't keep any lost property.

My 2 DD are the same size as me. Seriously considering labelling all pants in our house!

DS (aged 19) is currently sorting washing and has just mused about maybe labelling his pants so he and younger DS can tell easily whose are which.

Younger DS objects on the grounds that he uses any and all random pants anyway.

Older DS is Not Happy at this revelation, it would seem.

We labelled all clothing, then Ds put his initials on everything else including pens, ruler, pritt stick etc with a sharpie.

He has just finished year 7. I did put sticky labels in all his shoes and football boots/trainers because loads of kids have the same ones. He says it makes it easy to recognise his shoes.

It has never been an issue name calling wise but I wouldn't use the printed sticky labels for anything in his pencil case/water bottle etc.

We name things at work, such as staplers, even if they're not actually ours and belong to work...to stop them being taken by someone else who will also have been issued with said item but mislaid it.

So I maybe a bit label mad. I was thinking of ordering myself some nice stick on labels

Yeah - don't do the stationery!

Surprisingly amusing thread

@ George.

Angie- the initials aren't so the item can be returned, it's so the child can identify his own blazer in the pile on the changing room floor.

I asked ds, he was horrified at the idea that I would stop, as he wouldn't have a clue what was his, he is a deeply practical child

That said I have only ever discreetly labelled clothes and pe kit, not sure he would be impressed with stationery etc.

He is at a super selective though

DS2 aged 14 still has a Cash's name tape in his school trousers and blazer. He doesn't seem to mind. Actually I asked him last year if he wanted one in his trousers and he said yes - it was useful after PE.

Teachers won't open files on random memory sticks to find the owner in case they accidentally open something indecent.

What, like a really badly written essay?

Dd would laugh if I even suggested it, she's not lost anything so far though after two years of High school

Blue - whilst I agree naming memory sticks helps I burst out laughing at "not opening files in case there is something indecent"; as a secondary IT teacher I open files all the time to find the owner of memory sticks

Secondary teacher here. Label all clothes and sports kit. No point labelling stationery but do label calculators and memory sticks. Teachers won't open files on random memory sticks to find the owner in case they accidentally open something indecent.

I labelled rulers, pencil case, calculator, water bottle, glue stick, everything!

I paid for it all and if lost, I wanted half a chance of getting it back.

DS has had no stick at all for this through y7 at his London Comp. Lost pencil case once and got it back...because it was labelled.

If you want to label, then do it!

I label everything, although my DDs are now 16 and 14, so I expect them to do their own, especially as far as pencils etc are concerned.

DS is just starting senior school, and all his stuff will be labelled.

This thread reminds me of a recent trip DD2 went on to the battlefields and war graves in Belgium. It was forecast to rain (doesn't it always, in Belgium?) so I tried to get her to take a pack-a-mac. She was having none of it. So, I made do with an umbrella, and told her if she got wet and cold, she had no one to blame but herself.

In the event, it didn't rain, but on the way back in the coach, there was a big discussion about how everyone's mother had insisted on taking a pack-a-mac.

So, your DC might be sure that it is deeply uncool to have everything labelled, but they're unlikely to be the only ones whose parents have insisted on being sensible and boring!

"Don't girls like cool labels with their name on though? I used to at secondary school."

Erm, no.

Initials are no good....no one knows who JS or LS is, even in really small primaries.

Don't girls like cool labels with their name on though? I used to at secondary school.

I sent 16yo DD off to college with everything clearly labelled with iron on names......she seems to be the only one with all her kit at the end of the year

I also carefully put her name in 2 (or 3 hidden) places on the very expensive stuff - the only thing that didn't need labelling were her point shoes, one one could wear someone else's

Super selective?