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What am I going to do with ALL his unused labels? 🤣ĭo share and comment on whether you think labelling your child’s belongings is a good idea. I only wished I knew about this earlier…now Necessary items when she starts school, but I made them as pretty as possible 😊. That is why IĬontrolled my shopping urges and only ordered a few sheets for labelling This builds a sense of community spirit and children learn to look after and return the items so that others can use them too.įor now, since she’s still young, but I won’t overdo it. Plus, in classrooms, most times the stationery is shared by all. Will have the possibility of being shared. The items you don’t wish them to lose at home. Not to mention, notĪll kids come from wealthy families, so why not teach all kids to share and not Really mean because their friends ‘touched’ their stuff. Yours”, causing him/her to miss out on learning to share.īe selfish and possessive creatures too.

Your child’s belongings is that it may result in a sense of “It’s mine, not The ‘pain’ of using his own money, coupled with the worry that his teacher may reprimand him for not having the tool/book, worked like a charm! 3. So I started telling him that if he loses his stuff, he had to use his own allowance to replace it. My son is a scatterbrain at times, and he has misplaced his fair share of items (even when labelled 😓). When an item is labelled with your child’s name, he/she may treat it carelessly as if it’s lost, someone will return it since it is labelled. Labelling your child’s items when they are younger is helpful, but as they get older, it would be good to teach them about looking after their belongings. Or come up with a safe word that is known only to you and your child (read more about this here). So you can still label your child’s belongings but it’s better to keep it hidden, like inside the bag or under the water bottle, where it’s less obvious. In gaining the child’s trust this way, the child’s safety When a person calls theĬhild by name, the child may think this person must an acquaintance or a friend Who’s a stranger, or if the person is good or bad. Children often find it difficult to differentiate Your child’s items in clear sight, there is a danger that a stranger would use Calling the child by name brings about familiarity. There are 3 factors that I’d like to share: 1. Why? Call it a mother’s experience, and the influence of social media, not to mention the growing danger of adults who prey on children. However, this time I decided to do it differently. When Kaitlyn came along, without fail, I ordered a batch for her too. And for the most part, I always stuck the labels in not-so-obvious areas, like on the inside of his bag, inside his shoes, inside of his clothes etc. For Joshua, it kind of helped as he encountered a kid in his class who picked on him and took his stationery and books when the teacher wasn’t looking. When he went on to primary school, being the * kiasu mom, I decided to label whatever I was scared of him misplacing! I even went nuts and labelled each colour pencil, just because Stuck On You sold mini labels. Naturally, when I had Joshua, I ordered up a batch for him before he started playgroup and he was able to identify his belongings easily, first by the sticker design, then by his name as he got older. Where most of the children aren’t local, and they had all their items labelled,įrom their bags to their shoes to their stationery. Things during my time as a pre-school educator at an international pre-school, I love personalised stickers - not just for my kids, but for myself too! My favourite brands are Stuck On You and Mine4sure.