Anonymous
06/18/2014 10:30
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Hygiene issues aside and clearly from the responses, you have people with differing views on how big a deal it is drinking from another persons bottle.
We personally wouldn't share our drinks and bottles especially if they are those that you would have to suck on from nozzles. But if someone was really really in need, I really wouldn't mind sharing it for the day, wouldn't drink from it for the day but there is nothing a wash in the dishwasher wouldn't resolve.
I don't think my daughter needed to be taught that if you were borrowing someone's bottle or even anything that doesn't belong to you, you will use it respectfully though! you wouldn't just chew on the nozzle and leave a lot of your own tooth marks on it right? I have seen my daughter borrow someone else's DS for example and made a conscious effort not to let it get scratched because it is not hers! or a book and made sure it had no dog ears. Here, I think she just assumed that she could do whatever she liked. And she is not that "young" anymore! If she was 3 and chewed a bottle, I wouldn't have made a big deal out of it!
The second problem I have is that some kids are not taught that if someone says to you Stop, you stop. So our "please don't drink from my bottle", should mean you stop drinking from other people's bottle! And that's what I wanted to grab the mother to speak on. She would have to learn to respect other people's property and learn what is the meaning of no. No sneak around and use something when someone is not looking.
Third, the school didn't bother to intervene nor speak as part of authority to tell this girl that she should not be using someone's stuff without permission. We knew it happened because deep teeth marks started appearing on my daughter's bottle! It is also absolutely disgusting that this girl didn't have a care on using someone's property and especially if it was a new bottle too!
And now clearly, the bottle is so chewed it is unbelievable that it is just only about a month old! (and its a good sturdy branded bottle!) My daughter had hers for 2.5 years and it has wear but not to that extent! But clearly this was some child who did not treasure her own things even when it was given to her. Its an attitude really.....
Oh well and we are just hoping that when we come back in the fall, she will stay well clear of my daughter's things!
Sorry, I got about 3 paragraphs in and then I fell asleep.
Anonymous
06/18/2014 10:09
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
OP here. Hygiene issues aside and clearly from the responses, you have people with differing views on how big a deal it is drinking from another persons bottle.
We personally wouldn't share our drinks and bottles especially if they are those that you would have to suck on from nozzles. But if someone was really really in need, I really wouldn't mind sharing it for the day, wouldn't drink from it for the day but there is nothing a wash in the dishwasher wouldn't resolve.
I don't think my daughter needed to be taught that if you were borrowing someone's bottle or even anything that doesn't belong to you, you will use it respectfully though! you wouldn't just chew on the nozzle and leave a lot of your own tooth marks on it right? I have seen my daughter borrow someone else's DS for example and made a conscious effort not to let it get scratched because it is not hers! or a book and made sure it had no dog ears. Here, I think she just assumed that she could do whatever she liked. And she is not that "young" anymore! If she was 3 and chewed a bottle, I wouldn't have made a big deal out of it!
The second problem I have is that some kids are not taught that if someone says to you Stop, you stop. So our "please don't drink from my bottle", should mean you stop drinking from other people's bottle! And that's what I wanted to grab the mother to speak on. She would have to learn to respect other people's property and learn what is the meaning of no. No sneak around and use something when someone is not looking.
Third, the school didn't bother to intervene nor speak as part of authority to tell this girl that she should not be using someone's stuff without permission. We knew it happened because deep teeth marks started appearing on my daughter's bottle! It is also absolutely disgusting that this girl didn't have a care on using someone's property and especially if it was a new bottle too!
And now clearly, the bottle is so chewed it is unbelievable that it is just only about a month old! (and its a good sturdy branded bottle!) My daughter had hers for 2.5 years and it has wear but not to that extent! But clearly this was some child who did not treasure her own things even when it was given to her. Its an attitude really.....
Oh well and we are just hoping that when we come back in the fall, she will stay well clear of my daughter's things!
We personally wouldn't share our drinks and bottles especially if they are those that you would have to suck on from nozzles. But if someone was really really in need, I really wouldn't mind sharing it for the day, wouldn't drink from it for the day but there is nothing a wash in the dishwasher wouldn't resolve.
I don't think my daughter needed to be taught that if you were borrowing someone's bottle or even anything that doesn't belong to you, you will use it respectfully though! you wouldn't just chew on the nozzle and leave a lot of your own tooth marks on it right? I have seen my daughter borrow someone else's DS for example and made a conscious effort not to let it get scratched because it is not hers! or a book and made sure it had no dog ears. Here, I think she just assumed that she could do whatever she liked. And she is not that "young" anymore! If she was 3 and chewed a bottle, I wouldn't have made a big deal out of it!
The second problem I have is that some kids are not taught that if someone says to you Stop, you stop. So our "please don't drink from my bottle", should mean you stop drinking from other people's bottle! And that's what I wanted to grab the mother to speak on. She would have to learn to respect other people's property and learn what is the meaning of no. No sneak around and use something when someone is not looking.
Third, the school didn't bother to intervene nor speak as part of authority to tell this girl that she should not be using someone's stuff without permission. We knew it happened because deep teeth marks started appearing on my daughter's bottle! It is also absolutely disgusting that this girl didn't have a care on using someone's property and especially if it was a new bottle too!
And now clearly, the bottle is so chewed it is unbelievable that it is just only about a month old! (and its a good sturdy branded bottle!) My daughter had hers for 2.5 years and it has wear but not to that extent! But clearly this was some child who did not treasure her own things even when it was given to her. Its an attitude really.....
Oh well and we are just hoping that when we come back in the fall, she will stay well clear of my daughter's things!
Anonymous
06/18/2014 09:26
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
This happened on my son's soccer team often. I sent him with his water jug and and he always had an extra water bottle in his bag just in case he needed more water, but often he gave it away to the kid that didn't have water.
If I were you, I would just send your kid with a second water bottle so he doesn't have to share.
If I were you, I would just send your kid with a second water bottle so he doesn't have to share.
Anonymous
06/18/2014 09:22
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:This would not bother me at all because I'm not a germophobe and I don't see why a kid whose mom is too disorganized to bring water bottles should be penalized when there's water to go around. Anger over this type if thing is what makes it hard to make friends around here, IMO.
Is this a joke?? If the kid's mom is too disorganized to send water then the kid needs to learn to do it. It is disgusting to share a water bottle. Put it another way, why should the prepared kid be penalized and get sick because someone else's mom doesn't care enough to send water with her kid.
Anonymous
06/17/2014 20:04
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
OP here... so as its nearing the end of term, I just wanted to get it over with so I labeled her name on my daughter's new bottle and reverted my daughter with her old bottle. Told my daughter I will buy her a new one when I next go to the mall and she can help me choose one. So over the next few days since I gave it to her, I noticed that she didn't bring the bottle home but she DID use it and not my daughters. She chewed the poor bottle to bits (the nozzle is all chewed up) but at least my daughter is not using it anymore! Oh well....
Anonymous
06/14/2014 19:06
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:Gross. I wouldn't have a meeting with anyone, but I would tell my child that she is not allowed to share water bottles.
+1 - nasty.
Anonymous
06/14/2014 17:52
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have 12 year old twins and have not encountered this. I think my kids would go "eeww" and say no if anyone asked to drink from their water bottles. There is a behavior at home that implies this behavior is ok. I never told my kids not to drink from another child's bottle or let them drink from theirs. Some things are innately commonsensical. My kids don't want to drink from each other's water bottles although they share the same antibodies.
This struck me as really funny. If you think about it, it is innately commonsensical to share water containers. People in many cities throughout the world share common water areas or rivers and wells. Dogs share water bowls, farm animals share water troughs.
Being fastidious about water bottles is not "innately commonsensical". It's something you've taught your kids, and they've picked up on it. But they're not better than other kids, who've learned other ways of doing it.
Not the PP you quoted, but boy you must have a lot of time on your hands to dissect two words. It's not common sense to share water containers. The peeps that share water from rivers and stuff generally suffer from illness from feces in the water, dead animals etc. There is a reason we sanitize water from shared sources and transmit it through pipes to others sources, and then drink from clean containers. Kind of crazy, hang on there, here it comes....
Good hygiene.
Geez, talk about common sense. Also, kids are not dogs or farm animals. If you're okay with your kid acting like one, enjoy. Most parents are not.
Anonymous
06/14/2014 17:38
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Instead of a meeting, teach your child to say NO
Anonymous
06/13/2014 13:53
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:I have 12 year old twins and have not encountered this. I think my kids would go "eeww" and say no if anyone asked to drink from their water bottles. There is a behavior at home that implies this behavior is ok. I never told my kids not to drink from another child's bottle or let them drink from theirs. Some things are innately commonsensical. My kids don't want to drink from each other's water bottles although they share the same antibodies.
This struck me as really funny. If you think about it, it is innately commonsensical to share water containers. People in many cities throughout the world share common water areas or rivers and wells. Dogs share water bowls, farm animals share water troughs.
Being fastidious about water bottles is not "innately commonsensical". It's something you've taught your kids, and they've picked up on it. But they're not better than other kids, who've learned other ways of doing it.
Anonymous
06/13/2014 13:44
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
so OP. what happened eventually?
Anonymous
06/11/2014 15:55
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can transmit cold sores that way.
+1 Eeew. I would also teach my kids not to share waterbottles. And she chewed it too... maybe just ask your daughter to give her the bottle. I wouldn't want a water bottle with another kids teethmarks either!
Anonymous
06/11/2014 12:31
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Anonymous wrote:Can transmit cold sores that way.
Anonymous
06/11/2014 08:33
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
last year for about a couple of weeks, my daughter lost her bottle but didn't dare tell us she lost it. So she had been sharing with her classmates until another parent told us. We had to teach her about hygiene and spreading of germs. Especially since water bottles remains moist and covered either with the caps or nozzles etc as opposed to a cup.
Maybe you should try to find the mother.
Maybe you should try to find the mother.
Anonymous
06/09/2014 22:47
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
Get too bottles. Write each girl's name on them.
Anonymous
06/09/2014 22:43
Subject: Sharing of water bottles
School policy has it that all backpacks and stuff hang on the hangers along the corridor.