Son come home from school minus his sweatshirt, no big deal under normal cicumstances EXCEPT he has lost 5 this term.So what did I do ?? shouted "GET IN THE CAR" !! he wouldnt so again "GET IN THE BLOODY CAR NOW YOU LITTLE BEEP" he did,
Drove to the school, walked WITH him in to school gates boy was he embarassed !!13 and walking through the school with his mum!!
went to the office to see the secretary, lost property locked up, damn. BUT he said god mum this is so embarrassing, promise I will never lose another sweat shirt hmmm we will see.
But thats not all, just heard a jump and athud upstairs and a very sheepish "mum my beds broke and it FECKING WELL IS AAARRRRGGGG KIDS !!!!
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while I have to stay up till 8.30 tomorrow morning, something wrong somewhere !!!
5 is a lot..
We've only lost 2 this term.
lots of them
NN, don't you still sew nametags into all his clothes right down to his socks and pants so that he can't lose them?
(Nah, me neither.)
We've only lost one school fleece so far this year.
I had a little growl a couple of days ago when my 15-year-old demanded money to buy food for herself and her boyfriend because "there's no food in the house". I'd probably have been quite sympathetic if she'd said something like "we've both got a craving for red snapper and kumquat pizza and it's on special offer at the local drug-den-under-cover-of-pizza-shop place". But no food? Cheeky madam! The Cavern is better stocked than Sainsbury's and it's not as if I haven't taught her to cook.
I think they had a packet of chocolate hazelnut cookies for their dinner that night.
Mind you.. I haven't lost any sweatshirts in ages, so that can't be bad....
2 Deduct cost of new sweatshirt from pocket money (do they still call it that?)
3 Removal of privileges (phone, playstation etc)
Harsh but fair, I feel.
Otherwise definitely think he should do chores / lose some part of pocket money to pay for new sweatshirt.
On a serious note.......good point!
He actually lost a pair of trousers and a shoe at school once - I mean how do you lose your trousers!!!! (He's only 9 so no lewd suggestions!)
My Mum always told me it doesn't get any easier it just gets different.....
My 15-year-old now gives me her sweatshirts when she gets bored with them. And takes me shopping, uses flattery to encourage me to buy myself clothes that are grossly inappropriate for a woman whose facial skin doesn't fit her as closely as it used to, and then swipes them from me once I've carried them home. I'm a size smaller than she is, but she likes her clothes to be tight.
I started giving him a clothing allowance from quite a young age. Out of that he had to buy all his clothes and school equipment. If he constantly had to replace school things he didn't have enough money for the stuff he really wanted. In all truth, it didn't stop him from losing things - but it did stop me from getting so wound up about it!
my eldest has lost his sweatshirt, rugby shirt and several ties this term. In the past he has also lost rugby boots, which don't come cheap - strange how these things never appear in lost property
But my youngest is the champion, he is collected from school by his grandparents who regularly send him back in for missing clothing, he has managed to lose a pair of trousers this term - but his specialty is lunch boxes!
we were discussing what age he may leave home in the future, his older brother left at 18 to go to university Lee my 13 yr old said could he pleased live at home till he is 25, I said yes but he would have to pay lodge, "well how much ? " he asked, I said it would depend on what he earned,"well say I am on fifty grand? how much then ??" he was deadly serious, do they pay Butlins Redcoats that much , that what he wants to be !!!!!
As for now unless he comes home with at least 2 sweat shirts tonight, I will be keeping his £5 sunday papaer round money for 2 weeks to buy another , and my brother, a carpenter, thankfully says he can fix the bed !! phew !!
What stitching, what name tags, Oh my God you still gotta do that????
So WHERE THE F**K IS ALL THIS LOST CLOTHING GOING?