Missing stationeries

[buds]

Luvkid:

buds:

It is also good to label everything they own.

This mummy here doing all the labelling and get tired after almost every few days with missing items, especially pencils. Given him 3, came back with 1. Replace for him liao, same thing happen the next few days

Oh ya hor, my boy is careful of his pocket money,so far so good, cos came home have to report to me how he spent them

Careful with pocket money good!
For every pencil lost, put 10 cents
in special petty cash box. Make it
ala donation box! Ahahaa! :lol:

[Luvkid]

For every pencil lost, put 10 cents

in special petty cash box. Make it
ala donation box! Ahahaa! :lol:[/quote]

Hi buds,

Think will start off with your idea or the one u mentioned earlier
(So, if we can be the
hard-hearted-it's-for-your-own-good-kinda folks
can ask them to purchase the stationery replacements
themselves, from their pocket-money-savings...)
Let's wait n see how my boy going to handle.... :evil:

[buds]

Good luck, Luvkid! :evil:


Update hor!

Cheerios.
:celebrate:

[buds]

Heyya schellen, forgot to share with you...

pencils and erasers (lost) still not too bad..
my kiddie first week, forgot art file.. with
new (untouched) drawing block inside &
new ruler.. Big item, okay! Still can forget
to bring home. So now, rule of thumb, similar
to checking for stuff before exiting taxi or bus,
i get her to practise checking all her stuff has
been packed in the bags before leaving her
table or class.

I even role play...

>5 pencils... Check!
>2 erasers... Check!
>1 ruler... Check!
>1 notepad... Check!
>1 scissors... Check!
>1 glue-stick... Check!

Zip up pencil case...

P2 : Ok, done mummy.
Me : Oit! Forgot to check under the desk..
Me : You have just lost another art file based on this role play.. :roll:

*Note : Things left under table usually do not come back.
*Note : Be it labelled or not. One classroom usually utilised by 2 sessions.
*Note : If lost, consider it - bye-be-liao... gone case. :roll:

[schellen]

buds, I’ll try the role-play suggestion later with my DD.


Luckily, she goes to a single session school so things may still be around.

[buds]

schellen:

buds, I'll try the role-play suggestion later with my DD.


Luckily, she goes to a single session school so things may still be around.

Have fun!

It's a mental checklist we want these kiddos to have...
And no giving friends anything!! :roll:

[yjj]

I label all the important stationary too, except wooden pencil and small erasers. Thankfully my girl takes care of her things and keep track, and I dont take \"I dunno\" for answer.


I always tell her if \"you dunno\" then it is not important and you dont need it, so no replacement.

If she loses something, I will not replace it immediately, but will allow her to take something old that is being used at home for school instead.

I only replace her lost stationary with new ones at the start of new term, but worn out/ used up ones get replaced immediately.

Hope this helps

[schellen]

yjj:

I always tell her if \"you dunno\" then it is not important and you dont need it, so no replacement.


If she loses something, I will not replace it immediately, but will allow her to take something old that is being used at home for school instead.

I only replace her lost stationary with new ones at the start of new term, but worn out/ used up ones get replaced immediately.

Hope this helps

Hmm, I shall try that reasoning with my DD if she loses something again (touchwood!). I didn't bother to replace the lost eraser and I told her why I got her that \"special\" eraser too. Since she couldn't find it or didn't bother to. I just told her to use an old one (that wasn't as effective).

I think she takes a bit more care nowadays.

[buds]

yjj:

I label all the important stationary too, except wooden pencil and small erasers. Thankfully my girl takes care of her things and keep track, and I dont take \"I dunno\" for answer.

I super KS kind. Wooden pencils and colour pencils individually
labelled with thin black marker with kiddies' name. And she has yet to
lose them. Recently, she got awarded with a good pupil award of some
kind and i bought the 36 Staedtler colours in a metal case (sleek set
boy!) for her in support of her good effort in school and taking pride
in her school work. It cost a whopping SGD $27.00! Before discount..
Popular was having a sale selling it at SGD $13.50 so i got it lah.. :lol:
But i showed her the original price and.......

She went... :!:
\"For me???\"

Then she went ... :drool:
\"Wuuaaah mummy, so nice.. thank you.\"

Hugs me tight and... finally...
(tears of joy lah... not the wailing kind... but got no appropriate emoticon)

And i told her, \"See! How fortunate you are...? This is so expensive!\"
\"It's quality stuff. Colours come on easily without much pressing of
the pencils so you won't be too tired doing your colouring work...\"

\"You better not lose it ok..\"

Then she went... :faint:

When i tagged her name sticker on the metal box,
she said,\"Ermmm, mum. Can you not write my
name on the colour pencils one by one like b4?
I can take care of my colours fine without them.
Don't worry...\" Embarassment clearly lit her face. :oops:

\"Why? You pai-seh is it?\"
\"Ermm... uh-huh.. actually.. yah. I won't lose it i promise.\"
\"Okay, if you do... i'll use thicker markers to label them in future!\" :rotflmao:

That got her scared out of her wits!

yjj:

I always tell her if \"you dunno\" then it is not important and you dont need it, so no replacement.

yjj:

If she loses something, I will not replace it immediately, but will allow her to take something old that is being used at home for school instead.

I only replace her lost stationary with new ones at the start of new term, but worn out/ used up ones get replaced immediately.

Hope this helps

Hey, good one here, yjj. I abide by this too!

Cheerios!

[schellen]

buds, luckily, my DD is nonchalant about the name labels. Maybe because she went to childcare where we have to label everything, she got used to it.


I gave her MY own set of colour pencils, the one I bought for myself when I had to use it for my previous job. Since I had no use for it anymore and almost brand new, and as a gift to her for starting P1, I gave it to her. It’s from Faber-Castell and I noticed that at the end of each pencil, there is a little "white area’’ for you to write the name on. This is so useful as before, I had to change to a silver marker in order to label legibly on her old set of dark-coloured pencils.