Parents who do not label their kids clothes

[Fattymcfaterson]

Just. Fucking. Why?!

I use iron on labels and stuff comes back.

My dcs actually hoard their jumpers in their trays and come home with loads when I remind them.

I've forgotten in the past because I buy uniform during the year and, y'know, life.

It's great tho because my dc's school sell lost property and old uniform after a while so I get cheap uniform.
Except when I buy back what I suspect is my kids lost uniform.

I think lots of parents think they have to sew in stuff but I'm a fan of the sharpie.

My daughter lost a whole pair of shoes first term of secondary school tho. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Children in my class sniff their jumpers to identify them. They can all read perfectly well but prefer to sniff!

If they weren't in uniform it'd be much easier to know what belonged to who.

SDT that sniffer girl is a priceless asset. I wonder how they discovered her super power.

I label all my kids clothes bar underwear...

Every effing week my son comes home in someone else's socks

How do I label socks 😂😂😂

I have taken to labelling children's things for them, with biro on the care label/sticky labels for drinks bottles. if parents want to pass it on they can cut the label out/peel the sticker off but I am sick to death of spending my afternoons helping parents search for lost, unlabelled items at the end of school when actually I really need a wee having held it all afternoon.

I've had a parent stand and sniff jumpers before now to see which one smells like their house. Just fucking label it.

Because we are not sad 👍

by things, I mean jumpers, coats, water bottles, the bits always left laying about - I don't label everything.

Spent years labelling stuff for it to go missing, never to be seen again anyway. It only works if parents check labels for the stuff their child brings home, but they don't. Missing items don't tend to end up in lost property.

I have also been known to borrow unlabelled stuff from the lost property (I wash it first!) as all the labelled stuff ends up there or at someone else's house anyway!

I used to write on the label, inside the hem
If I sewed labels I did label + inside the pocket

DS still lost things , usually because he never bloody told me till it was way too late to look .

I once indentified his very new long sleeved white shirt that he cast aside in the coat area by smelling it . It is true that you know your own childs' smell !

Because parents like the idea of hundreds of pounds worth of unlabelled clothes, shoes, water bottles and lunch boxes being thrown away every term. And because it makes it easier for their kids to nick the nicer clothes off other children and leave their shit behind to be chucked away.

This is gonna sound silly but when people label Do they put class aswell? As they will probably be wearing it again next year in a different class? As I don't buy new jumpers\ coats every year if they still fit

All the people who don't label then I'm sorry but it's pure laziness! Takes seconds to sharpie a name on.
You want to try matching a class of reception kids to their jumpers at home time when there's more without names than actually named!

The way parents blame you for their kid losing clothing too.
I work in a pre-school. One day a dad tells me his son has lost his grey hoody (from Next). I spend a good 15 mins each day that week looking for it, the dad getting crosser and ruder each day, making me feel as if I'd chucked it out of the window myself. I found a Primark one and showed him. 'No, it's from Next' he glared at me. Next day I apologise to the mum that it hasn't been found and she says 'oh it's Primark, yes that's the one!'

As a teacher, I refuse to spend anytime looking for lost property. If I pick something up and it has a name, I'll return it, but don't come to me and tell me your child has lost X (for the tenth time this term) and expect me to spend days looking for it.

I had a mother this year that has finally given up asking. First term she wanted me to put all the students in the gym with their hats and go and check every name label (all 900 students!) because someone had 'obviously' stolen her son's. I refused. (Hat was eventually located in his tub). Then the second term she wanted me to put all the kids in the hall because her son had lost his unlabelled jumper (again), and to take everyone that didn't have a name off the child and put them in a pile for her to check if she could identify the one belonging to her son. I refused. No idea about the outcome of this one as I refused to deal with her again after she complained to the Principal about my refusal to spend a couple of hours checking every jumper on every child in the school. Principal laughed her out of the office.