To be shocked by this?

[CrohnicallyAspie]

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!)

Is there any chance they had the same ones and the other girls mum thought you had took hers and written your girls name on them? Just wondering because I regularly have one trainer called 'colin'. He's in my son's class and they have the same trainers and same size feet but aren't careful at pairing their own. Even had two right ones before it might be nothing so I think it would be a good idea to make sure the other girl doesn't have ones the same

My dd is wearing her brothers old wellies...I crossed out his name and wrote hers under it. I really hope there's not another child in her class with the same name as her brother!

It is scummy.

I would ask the nursery what they plan to do about this, as it is theft.

I am at all the stories people have about cheeky thieves.

The most I have had is someone take dd's named scooter. I'm waiting for it to turn up on eBay!

I'll wait and see what nursery say in the morning (don't worry I'll update you all!)

No other children at the nursery with DD's name, indeed I've never met another one her age (not a made up name, just not very popular)

I suppose it could have been someone different collecting the child and an honest mistake, I once had a phone call after DH had picked DD up, asking if we had child X's bag. I went and checked and we did indeed- it wasn't even that similar to Dd's, same style but different character (like picking up a George Pig bag instead of Peppa Pig).