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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for the responses. Oh yes, we are not Germaphobe but my DD is well aware to tell others not to share these things…. But I think this girl in my DD’s class uses stuff without people’s permission. I normally wouldn’t get so irked either and if it was a hot day or a desperate situation that she needed water, we wouldn’t really mind it much either to fuss over a water bottle and share if she asked nicely and was considerate enough to not chew up the bottle when using it! But we seemed to think is that she either lies that she didn’t do it or just shrug her shoulders and ignore comments from my daughter and teachers. The problem too is that this has happened after the fact and has apparently helped herself to other peoples things during gym or maybe somehow access the hanging hooks during the day.

Thanks for reading and if you want the longer story… here goes…. 
My daughter had used her previous bottle for around 2+ years and the usual wear (some tooth marks and dents etc) happens on kids bottles but it wasn’t so bad and she seemed to take care of her things. Last month however, I noticed the spout suddenly seemed all chewed up and it was leaking a little so I bought her a new one just three weeks ago. In just one week, there were suddenly all these deep toothmarks on her new bottle and so I told my daughter that she shouldn’t really be chewing on the spout. That’s when she said she said it was not her and she thinks it was this classmate of hers that is stealing her water when she was not looking. She also said when she caught her once, she had told her before not to drink from her bottle. This time, however, the girl claims she didn’t drink from it. (And we think she particular likes my daughter’s because she has apple juice in her bottles for school.) So it’s very strange. Either it is someone else who drank from my daughters bottle, a deliberate water bottle chewing prank (strange!!), or my daughter is lying and she actually developed a habit of chewing her bottle and didn’t want to own up to it?

I then gently raised this with the teachers but they said unless they saw it, they couldn’t pin it on anyone and ignored it. I kinda believe my own daughter in this case because she has never really chewed hard on her own water bottles and it has only just started happening. Apart from the lying, I am also irked by the fact that it’s a hygiene issue that was not really looked into by the school. My daughter also says this girl usually has very little food brought to school, doesn’t have her own bottle or lunch bag and always begs from others.  
So what would you guys do?? Or buy another bottle without a spout and then move on? (But then, how will we know whether this girl used my daughter’s bottle without her knowing?) I wouldn’t really fuss over a bottle, make my daughter measure how much water she drinks or change what she will bring to school? (and after all, it is quite soon before school ends and hopefully next year, this thing no longer recurs?)

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