What do you do if they come home from nursery with the wrong clothes but they don't have a name in them ??

[herbgarden]

and what if they're nicer than the ones you send your child into nursery? My ds has several nice tops and trousers in his peg bag at nursery which aren't his and are unnamed however equally he has "mislaid" his slightly dodgy items. Is it win some lose some or should I confess I have the wrong items and ask them to find his??

In our case, they don't remember. I was given a bag of pooey clothes to wash and they weren't dd's. I coudn't very well take them in in that state so I washed and ironed them and took them back. Needless to say, dd's pooey clothes were still pooey when I collected them the next morning!

I send them back and ask them to find where DS's clothes may have gone.

One of DS's friend stayed overnight and I sent him to nursery next day with DS clothes. They never made their way back to my house, which really didn't bother me, however, it did hit a nerve to see the child wearing them to nursery weeks after that. Now is the younger brother wearing them, and the mum... well she has not mentioned anything about it even when we see them quite often.... so... if they are visiting, they are wet, or whatever, they are always changed to their clothes before leaving or, I just lend them those things I was about to donate to charity.

Well, how would you feel if was the other way round?

Mmm, not bothered really. DS gets sent to nursery in the grottiest of clothes for that very reason that I can't guarantee I'll ever see them and they look dreadful when they come back anyway....!

Clean them, send them back...don't send in things you 'love' so no stress.... only strop I ever had was over shoes - ds new shoes, came back in someone elses...(thou' did look like the kind of thing he would wear...) got his back and labelled them pdq..

i agree with Blackduck..

At the nursery I worked if the children got messy etc - I worked with 1 -2's we would rinse the clothes and put them in their bags and dress them in nursery spare clothes donated by parents when children grew to big for them.

If you have lost clothes at nursery, let them know, they might be in the spare clothes box unfortunatley I have "misplaced" clothes a couple of times and with 23 children in the class you do try and send home clothes with the right children.

And just so you know, we have had children who keep our nursery spare clothes and we now don't put the "nice" clothes on them as we know they will wear them to nursery next time they're in hmm