| The beauty of custom iron on clothing labels is their | | | | were back at square one. |
| simplicity and effectiveness. Working as a teacher in | | | | As they grow up they will learn to be more responsible |
| Kindergarten I know firsthand just how difficult it is for | | | | for their belongings and they will understand the |
| kids to keep up with their things. I also know just how | | | | importance of it. But, until then I found a great new |
| frustrating it is when items mysteriously disappear | | | | way to help my kindergartners keep up with his or her |
| between the car and the classroom and vice versa. It | | | | things while making things easier on the teacher as |
| felt like we spent a lot of time "looking for things". Items | | | | well. As an experimental run I bought peel-and-stick |
| like library books, backpacks, sweaters, coats, folders, | | | | labels to place on every lunchbox and every water |
| water bottles, and lunch boxes. The school is definitely | | | | bottle that I had in my class. I promise from that day on |
| under no obligation to safeguard these losses. I've had | | | | I never had a student lose their lunchboxes or water |
| parents become pretty irate when their child | | | | bottles. Once I started seeing those kids come to |
| continuously loses items. | | | | school with their belongings labeled I learned that this |
| As a teacher, I can tell you that if we spent the time it | | | | wasn't a fluke. I first started sharing this new find with |
| takes to find all those lost things then there wouldn't be | | | | parents who showed great interest out of frustration |
| much time for teaching. I know that the art of losing | | | | with their kids losing things. |
| things is an inherent right. I've seen parents go to great | | | | I encouraged parents to expand this practice to use |
| lengths to try and instill in their kids responsibility. I've | | | | iron on clothing labels as well. This turned out to be a |
| seen kids come to school on cold, snowy days with | | | | little more difficult than just writing a name on a |
| one glove only to leave with just one. Seems that they | | | | peel-and-stick label and sticking it on a smooth surface |
| lost the other one at some point during the day. Using | | | | like a lunchbox. I did some looking around and I found |
| iron on clothing labels is a simple way of insuring the | | | | Mabel's Labels. A great company that has been in |
| item is returned promptly and not condemned to spend | | | | business for a long time. They provide custom iron-ons |
| eternity in the lost and found. | | | | that adhere to just about any fabric and are perfect |
| Just like adults, kids have a lot of things on their minds | | | | for uniforms, jackets and more. Tag-Mates(TM) are no |
| during the day at school. Believe it or not they stress | | | | sew, no iron clothing labels which peel and stick to the |
| out just like we do. So, I think that punishing them for | | | | care tags on clothing. They also have shoe labels that |
| losing things in hopes of teaching them a lesson is the | | | | are extra tough and fit nicely on the insole of boots, |
| wrong way to go about it. I do believe that they should | | | | shoes and more. Their bag tags are sturdy metal tags |
| be taught responsibility for their things but having them | | | | that are perfect for labeling school bags, diaper bags |
| come home with frostbite isn't my idea of tough love. I | | | | and other luggage. |
| thought the answer to all the "lost and found" issues | | | | Trust me on this....after all I learned this in my |
| could be solved by making a list. The problem with that | | | | Kindergarten class and isn't it true that all we ever |
| is that the lists all started disappearing. So, there we | | | | needed to know we learned in Kindergarten? |