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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of us don’t send our children to sleepaway camp.

I labeled coats and jackets with sharpie. Backpacks were monogrammed until the kids were old to enough to mind their own stuff (and object to monogramming.)

I can count on one hand the number of things we’ve lost.[/quote].

Your family is unique, as most kids lose stuff all the time.  And we get it, YOU didn't send your kids to sleepaway camp, but millions do.  Agree, you'll use way more than 40 each year just for that.  Then there's sports gear, jackets, water bottles and so much more.

Taking a look at any ES lost and found, where they accumulate so much they have to donate quarterly, and you'll see kids losing things is the norm, not the exception[/quote]

Parents don’t scold kids for losing stuff and don’t take the kid to lost and found to hunt for the lost stuff. I work at an ES and parents almost never come check the lost and found. They just don’t care and therefore the kids don’t care. My kids cared because I cared and taught them to care. [/quote]

Not everyone can make it down to the school during school hours to check. [b]It doesn't mean they don't care or that they don't adress the issue with their kids. [/b][/quote]

The massive quantity of unclaimed items at the end of the year absolutely means you don't care that much. If you don't come get your kid's $150 winter coat the entire year, it means that he has another one at home he can wear and you just don't care that much about $150. If it were actually your kid's only coat, you would figure out a way to come find it. Ditto all the fancy hoodies. Additionally you have taught your child not to care because they clearly aren't in any trouble for losing the item (or they would come look for it) and they don't actually need the item because they have so many others (or they would come look for it.)[/quote]

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