To be mildly concerned at school putting girl's knickers on DS1 after a toilet accident?

[RachelWatts]

DS1 is 5.4 and just started Y1.

Despite being dry in the day for quite a while, he has recently started wetting himself - I suspect a UTI so will be booking him a GP appointment tomorrow.

After apparently having an accident at school, someone gave him a pair of girl's knickers. They are pale pink with a picture of a cute dalmation on.

Normally I wouldn't mind - they're only pants - but he had an after school sports club which meant he had to get changed in front of his classmates, some of whom would not hesitate to point it out and ridicule him.

Even worse - his own wet pants are nowhere to be found. DS1 thinks the TA might have put them in another child's bag by mistake. Mortified!

"From ringworm to general harpies"

And you do not want general harpies in your pants. The big, flappy wings are most uncomfortable...

Why a parent would keep pants with the school name emblazoned on them is anybody's guess.
they don't.they bin them to save the hassle of washing drying and returning them

I think it's a bit rich to know your kid has a wetting problem, not send him with any spare ones and then complain about the ones they give him!!

I suspect this is a case of misplaced anger - subconsciously you are upset at yourself for not having had the forethought to send in spare underwear for your DS after knowing that he's started to have accidents, so you are looking for someone to blame. There is no one to blame here though, it was an accident and an oversight on your part for not providing spares. I'm certain that no teacher/ta purposely put your child in the 'wrong' pants - what would they have to gain from this?

Going forward, just be sure to send in a couple of spares to be kept at school for DS, sharpie his name in them and include a bag or nappy bag for the wets to be discretely returned. No problem.

Don't forget to wash and return the pink ones from today so they still have some spares for emergencies.

Surely you would notice if there were harpies in their undies?

They are quite noisy?

Gah! Zombie thread. I'm sure I remember there being alerts for zombie threads - was that a different website, only for older threads, before some kind of forum upgrade, I'm totally imagining it?

Bloody harpies. When oh when will schools realise they need bleach and a boil watch AND a zombie thread warning to keep our kids' pants safe?

Chill lisalisa - nothing bad is going to happen from someone wearing some washed undies. I take it you don't go in for buying selling used washable nappies then.

Yep there's usually a zombie alert - maybe it's just on desktop site (I can't see one but am on the phone)