To be raging that my DD6 just lost her brand new jazz shoe

[ElfinsMum]

I bought them for her 2 days ago. Forty quid for a tiny (ugly) pair of shoes. She did one class in them. Will have to replace immediately because we are two weeks from the big annual concert.

I actually cried in the middle of the reception area at the dance studio out of the sheer frustration. The teenage dance teacher couldn't have given fewer fucks.

Go on: hit me up with your best tales of stuff your kids have lost!!

Over £2k in sports kit in one bag, although tbf, I think it was stolen so not my DC’s fault.

That sounds more like bullying than losing.

Yep..

£80 (and 2 appointments) for a gum shield for sports.. DS lost it after the first match!

Expensive ear plugs for surfer DC who got lot's of ear infections. Lost first time! (And it had a bloody wire to attach to his wetsuit.. but no.. still lost)

£80 (2nd hand) mobile phone left in changing room during sport..on his actual birthday when he actually got the phone..guess what?

Brand new expensive hoodie (another birthday present) used as a goal post anyone?

And I must add when they were younger I had to suck it up..
As they got older it was 'oh dear, what are you going to do?' from me..

They learnt..or maybe just didn't tell me?

I wouldn’t replace them yet because there’s quite a good chance someone them has but won’t be able to return them until the next class, presumably next week. That still gives a week before this big concert so plenty of time to sort if they don’t turn up. I think that’s unlikely though if they’re clearly named. My kids forget stuff at school all the time but we’ve never not been reunited with it.

I hope the shoes turn up though ...I wouldn't be so confident as to say that they will turn up as DD one lost a brand new school jumper (with logo) at school, it was duly labelled, she came home with another that had holes in...luckily when she went back to school & teacher was made aware...she turned to a boy & said ...X this is your jumper give DD hers back....believe it or not the other parent had cut our label & put the boy's name on it ! We also had another case where a parent returned to us sister's cardi that was well worn. Girl who was in DD's class was about 3 sizes smaller so we knew straight away whose cardigan it was mixed up with. Funny thing is I think the girl would never have been able to wear DR'S cardi as she was tiny.

You can get second hand ones fairly easily if you look around, but they shouldn't be £40 in the first place.
I've never paid more than £25 for Jazz shoes, except the jazz trainers, but they weren't allowed those until they stopped growing.

It’ll turn up surely - what use is one shoe to anyone else?

Yes. Because the other child didn’t take it off her foot or out of her bag. The OPs child should learn to put things away in their bag as they take them off, so that other children don’t take them and they don’t get lost.

That's so upsetting. DS lost a brand new Clarks zip up boot at the same age while sitting in his pushchair on a dog walk. I rewalked the route immediately , but couldn't find it. A local woman who spoke to occasionally told she'd found a boot and put it up on a drystone wall beside a cultivated field where we had walked. She went back at some point and couldn't find it either.
I really wish she had taken it home and posted about finding a lost boot on the local Facebook page.
I've found soft toys, taken them home and got them returned to happy owners that way.

It’s so frustrating op! These things are expensive and I bet it will turn up the moment you buy a new pair. It’s probably found it’s way I to another child’s bag and will turn up in a week or so.

I once had a piece of school uniform returned to me by a parent 2 years later! They had been clearing out some drawers and found it at the bottom.

I always told mine to take care of their things but if something was lost it was not as important as them and I never, ever wanted them to be scared to tell me or to come home.

My dad and stepmother gifted me (us) a gold kruger rand (they are south african) on my wedding day a long time ago. Somehow during the divorce it has disappeared. My exH is adamant he does not have it. I have searched the house repeatedly. Its now worth about 3k. I still hold out a small hope that it will someday miraculously appear.

This. We must, as a planet, already have enough jazz/tap shoes in existence for every child to use forever more. Where do they all go when grown out of?? Our dance school had a secondhand box you could help yourself to. The amount of dance paraphernalia in landfill must be plenty.

It’ll turn up as it’s a lone shoe…unless there is a pirate in her class 😉

He wasn't being bullied/a bully

He just had a knack of losing stuff-he once walked from the kitchen to his bedroom and lost his school tie

Another time he walked in,took his shoes off and they disappeared

Hes never really grown out of it-he's always losing his keys or wallet

What size? What colour? What style? I think I have one small pair still knocking around.

At 6???

My son's entire PE kit went missing at school, when he was in Year 3 or 4. All named. Teacher didn't give two hoots. I wasn't allowed in school to help him look (even though I'm DBS cleared and work for the same Trust! 🙄). It turned up half a term later...another child had stuffed my son's kit and trainers into his own PE bag!! How he didn't notice I have no idea! The Mum noticed when he brought home a very stuffed, heavy PE bag! Of course, I'd had to go out and buy an entire new kit (some I managed to buy secondhand). I was not impressed.

Whole school bag 3 weeks into new term of Year 8, fully named with all new stationary, books, calculator etc and even had a tracker in it. I told school it was in school although I couldn't pin point the actual place. I wasn't allowed to go in and search myself but staff said they had "searched the entire school" and it was definitely not there.

2 months later DS came home saying you'll never guess what I found under a tree on the school field? Yes the entire untouched bag.

Bloody hell, why are the dance school making 6 year olds buy £40 jazz shoes?! That's ridiculous! They're around £15-20 by brands like Roch Valley or Bloch.

Feel your frustration but in the grand scheme… Maybe another parent of a child in the class has a pair they could lend yours? I hope you didn’t take it out on your 6 year old. She’s 6. They lose stuff. It’s just the way.

My house is a shrine to off shoes . Kids ramgin 28 to 6 😭😭😭😭

Not my DCs, but me. Age about 14 at school, I accidentally threw my braces in the bin with the wrappers from my packed lunch. I did go looking for them but the bin had been emptied. DM lost her Invisalign braces recently. She has no idea where. The dentist told her off🤣

DS age 7 came home from school wearing two different shoes.

Must have taken them off for PE or swimming and somehow got swapped.

Put messages out to the year group and local groups etc but no response. Brand new school shoes and only had them for one week into the new school year 😬

It may well turn up. During a long overdue clear out of a couple of drawers a few months ago, I was utterly amazed to find a pair of diamond and pearl earrings dh had given me ages ago. I had spent several years racked with guilt for thinking they had been accidentally thrown out through my own stupid carelessness.
Yet there they were, in a tiny box, but not the fancier one they’d originally come in. How on earth did I have no memory of putting them there?

🤞you will have a similar experience in the not too distant!