Just what the title says really. My 11 year old ds is in his first year at secondary school. He seems quite happy at school and has some good friends, but he is so incredibly careless.
In the last week he has lost his uniform hoody, his watch, sports bottle, and the last straw today - his entire p.e. kit, including his trainers (which were reasonably expensive ones because he uses them for his squash too, and he has size 9 feet!)
He wandered out to meet me at car looking sheepish, and said he'd "just lost it". I am at my wits end now, I drove home because ds1 has school transport and I needed to be in for him, then once he'd arrived home I went back to ds2s school and we went to reception and asked, and then to p.e. block...of course, there's nothing to be seen.
I thought that after I'd had a discussion with him about losing his watch (which I'd got him as a present for starting secondary) he'd have been a bit more careful, but no. His kit wasn't even in his locker because he'd forgotten to take his locker key with him this morning...and I had forgotten to specifically remind him. How do I get through to him that he needs to look after his possessions?
I feel so annoyed with him right now, the kit will have to be replaced, but I won't be getting him another watch, and I just feel that he doesn't care about the "nice thing" that I had tried to do for him - he didn't care enough about my present to look after it 