To go mental about lost games kits and other carelessness

[TheDullWitch]

Ds1 (11 in 1st year at big school) has just lost his entire kit. An effing pair of trainers, in a new sports bag, with socks, tracksuit, shorts... sob, weep, snarl.

He says it s been stolen. Or maybe he can't find it. He didn't put it back in his locker. I sent him to lost property to scour the school. He even got detention for not having kit. So I'm just supposed to replace it all. Again, since he lost a bunch of stuff before Xmas. Which is bloody expesnnive and a complete drag.

What do the rest of you do about lost stuff?

Hell I am dreading DD2 going to secondary school, she is just like yours Sherbert. Totally mystified and upset when things go missing. It drives me insane

It never gets better, mine is 16 now, still breaking and losing stuff. Stood on his iPod the other day and broke it. And forgetting everything he needs to do for uni entry.

It does get easier in that he has to pay to replace everything.

It may turn up, I have had a lot of stuff reappear.

DS1 has lost his again, but as its all logo'd stuff it ahs to come from the school supply shop- 25 miles away (no, not private).

He's got Sn which is why he loses it but I haev sympathy for you as it drives me mad!

Dear Sherbert, the teen mind is chaotic and the body is hormonal. If she hands her school work in on time and isn't doing drugs then she's probably OK.

Phew, thought it was just my DS!! He lost 3 kits in yr 7, due to him just leaving his bag on the floor in class. They have no lockers so have to cart everything around; he has also left stuff behind on other occasions but found it later. On one trip to lost property they had a bag of his that he had lost while on a trip the the school in year 5!! Complete with mouldering lunch. Made him pay for the second two PE kits-very expensive- they have to have special kit only available from school shop. Its a state school BTW, must be hard for some parents to afford it. He is now in yr 9 and MUCH better at remembering, so there is hope.

During the first term of DS secondary school he came home with the wrong shirt on. So as a responsible parent I washed and ironed the shirt and gave to DS to return to owner. Now on his second term the other boy still has not returned DS's shirt. I agree secondary school is nothing like primary.