playschool have loaned us a toy - i've lost it!

[missdduke]

Playschool lend out educational toys to the children for a week and then we take them back (like a library).

My son was given 38 alphabet threading beads in a jar with some laces. My son and older daughter have played with them all half term, however we are now missing about 10 beads and the jar lid! argh!!

What do i do? I can't find the exact same ones on the internet so can't buy a new set. Should I fess up and just give them back and apologise? Should I take them back in with £10 donation to replace them? Should I just buy a different threading game and take that in?

When my daughter was at same playschool about 2 yrs ago we lost part of a toy then but fortunately I was able to buy the exact same one from ebay the following week.

My husband is going mad at me for losing playschool toy again and keeps saying I shouldn't even give them to my son to play with cos we just lose them. (the toys are always fiddly, tiny things - to do matching, sorting, counting exercises)

Help - are playschool gonna hate me? I surely can't be the only parent who loses stuff? I feel like the most disorganised mother in the world!

This has happened at my nursery, we have a toy animal that goes out to the children as a treat, this was recently lost by one of the children, the parent replaced it, although not with the exact same animal, but hey ho these things happen. The mum has requested not to have it given to her kids again, although i hope she wasn't to serious. What kind of jar is it, can you replace it? You should be able to replace the beads quite easily, or you could put in some buttons, and cotton reels these can also be used to thread.

Playschool should be used to children breaking and loosing toys. They should be really pleased that your children have played well with it all week.

I wouldn't bother replacing it.

Am I awful {shock}

I was very embarassed when my DD1's speech therapist gave her the lend of a book from her library. We had it 2 weeks when DD2 (then aged 2) found it and scribbled all over it - it was totally ruined. I went into bookshops and tried ebay and Amazon to replace it, but it was out of print. In the end, I confessed to ST what happened and offered a ?10 donation - which she refused. She was fine about it.
You'll have to tell the teacher what happened, and maybe ask her not to lend any more toys to your children - just to keep your sanity!

just go in and tell them what's happened, offer to buy a replacement and ask what they'd like.

They won't worry, probably happens all the time but most people don't bother to tell them or replace things. I was shocked at our pre-school when the staff said when they have to send children home in other clothes because they've wet themselves etc a lot of the time the clothes aren't returned

Tis true Eddas, clothes are sent home all the time and not returned, and almost all of ours are labelled with a big N on the label, some children even come in wearing nursery clothes.

I do think it would be rude not to offer a replacement, my nursery is short on funds, and would find it quite difficult to replace toys that have been borrowed then lost, we find it hard enough to replace toys broken on a daily basis.