Lost clothes and other items at daycare

[Anonymous]

We are admittedly relatively new to the daycare game, but my mom is a pre-school director and referred me here:

https://www.namebubbles.com/Daycare-Labels/Daycare-Labels-Packs/Department.aspx

Literally everything that goes to daycare gets one of these bad boys. They send out promo codes regularly if you sign up for their e-mails. There are fabric labels for clothes/blankets/sheets, shoe labels, and general ones I use for cups, food containers, ets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are admittedly relatively new to the daycare game, but my mom is a pre-school director and referred me here:

https://www.namebubbles.com/Daycare-Labels/Daycare-Labels-Packs/Department.aspx

Literally everything that goes to daycare gets one of these bad boys. They send out promo codes regularly if you sign up for their e-mails. There are fabric labels for clothes/blankets/sheets, shoe labels, and general ones I use for cups, food containers, ets.

PP forgot to add they go through the dishwasher and washing machine just fine!

[Anonymous]

My oldest is 4 and has been in a preschool with lots of kids for a year. I think she lost one hat that was not labeled in that time.

We've been using an in home daycare for 3.5 years, first with my DD and now with my 1.5 year old DS. They have never lost anything.

So I'm going to say this isn't normal. Can you ask them about their systems? They may need some tweaking to make sure items are being places in the right "cubby" or bag. I have sometimes gotten something sent home that was not ours, and I just send it back the next day and it finds it's way back.

[Anonymous]

Lost and trashed clothing is my biggest peeve about daycare. I our older infant and toddler rooms their clothes are absolutely ruined and stained forever. Just because I'm sending them to school in hand-me-downs and cheaper clothing doesn't mean I don't care about how they look.

[Anonymous]

I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lost and trashed clothing is my biggest peeve about daycare. I our older infant and toddler rooms their clothes are absolutely ruined and stained forever. Just because I'm sending them to school in hand-me-downs and cheaper clothing doesn't mean I don't care about how they look.

Stained with what?? Are they doing lots of crafts or eating food that is messier than at home? I have heard this before but was always curious as to why!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lost and trashed clothing is my biggest peeve about daycare. I our older infant and toddler rooms their clothes are absolutely ruined and stained forever. Just because I'm sending them to school in hand-me-downs and cheaper clothing doesn't mean I don't care about how they look.

Stained with what?? Are they doing lots of crafts or eating food that is messier than at home? I have heard this before but was always curious as to why!

I don't understand this either. Every daycare that we used had bibs and smocks. The kids might come home dirty from going outside, but there were no issues with ruined clothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Above PP again, buy cheap clothes for daycare, go to the thrift store and buy stuff you dont care too much about.

I buy DD 3-4 pairs of gloves from Dollartree every year, so I dont care if she loses a pair.

+1, all my kids' back up clothes are from good will.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand - do you label things? We bought labels on name bubbles and put them on EVERYTHING. Everything gets put in the kids' bag/folder eventually. This is for both an in home daycare and a full day preschool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

$300 a WEEK, not month!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

$300 a WEEK, not month!

We know! It is still incredibly cheap in this area.

[Anonymous]

We have been at two different centers and have never lost anything for long. Sometimes a hoodie or a bottle cap would reappear the next day.
We label almost everything, and both centers have used the cubby system. If this is relevant (not sure it is), our centers cost around 465-575 a week (assuming 4 weeks a month).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

$300 a WEEK, not month!

Yes, clearly. We pay $550 a week in DC for our toddler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

$300 a WEEK, not month!

Yes, clearly. We pay $550 a week in DC for our toddler.

I know it's really hard for you to imagine since clearly you never leave the district, but things are less expensive in the suburbs, even inside the beltway. I wouldn't call $300/wk cheap. Do you want a sticker for living in a shoebox and paying out the nose for everything?

Back to the topic at hand. It is ridiculous for a daycare to lose so much. I'd wonder what else they're mismanaging if they can't manage to get a pair of dirty pants back in the right cubby. Allergies? Sunblock? Come on, it's part of the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I label all my sons clothes and don't send too many extraneous things with him, so it is easy enough to check during pick up that we have what we came with (lunch box and containers, basically - since it is cold he would have the hat at coat on to leave).

Not a troll, but $300 is incredibly cheap for child care in the DC area!

$300 a WEEK, not month!

Yes, clearly. We pay $550 a week in DC for our toddler.

I know it's really hard for you to imagine since clearly you never leave the district, but things are less expensive in the suburbs, even inside the beltway. I wouldn't call $300/wk cheap. Do you want a sticker for living in a shoebox and paying out the nose for everything?

Back to the topic at hand. It is ridiculous for a daycare to lose so much. I'd wonder what else they're mismanaging if they can't manage to get a pair of dirty pants back in the right cubby. Allergies? Sunblock? Come on, it's part of the job.

OP here, thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions and I'm also glad to see this turned in to a classically DC-flavoured "whose wang is bigger" subthread in terms of whom pays what [i]in the area. We live in the district and send him to a daycare in Chillum. We had more expensive options at nearly every other daycare we were on the waiting list for, so I get that we are not paying much, thanks.

Yes, we have labeled most everything. That is everything except the items we have lost.