[carmel23]

My son will begin kindergarten in a few weeks at a really small, community Catholic school. The kids all wear the same uniform, and so I need to put his name on every item (esp. his sweater). I wanted to just put our last name on the inside of his clothing, like on the collar, but dh said that this was bad because it is not safe.

I know one should not put their child's name on the outside of their clothing, but this would be on the inside...

What do you do? Do you put an e-mail address, or phone number, or initials, or family (last) name? I'd like to put the last name because at least 2 other children in our family will use these clothes in the next few years

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Any words of wisdom will help! Thanks,

 

[Trishy]

Why is it not safe to label the inside of the clothing?

 

[Ruthla]

How about labeling the clothing with your home phone number instead? Lost articles still get returned to you, but nobody can say "hey Joe!" from reading your child's sweater.

 

[chel]

as someone that has changed my phone # 3 times in the last year, I'd put your last name on the tags.

 

[Threefold]

We don't have a uniform, but do have to send spare clothes labeled to school, I think I'll label with our last name on the off chance that the wrong person sees the label on the inside and to make the clothes easier to hand down to siblings

 

[carmel23]

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Originally Posted by Trishy Why is it not safe to label the inside of the clothing?

I think my dh was being a bit paranoid... but basically in case someone saw the name and then pretended to know my child (that is if s/he was a bad person).
Young children might not know that this person is a stranger, esp. if they know their name, they must know them, right?!

Our phone number might change soon, too... so I didn't want to put that...

Our son will not be walking to/from school by himself--ever (not for a few years, anyway)--and it is a rather small community (but in a big, city type area).

I think I'll put our last name and then just remind my son--constantly-- about stranger safety. He is a very outgoing kid and loves to talk to adults, esp., so we just worry.

thanks for the help-- I thought maybe I was just out talking with my husband!

 

[User101]

I think your DH is being a little overprotective. Last name inside clothing will be next-to-impossible for a stranger to see, unless he is already inappropriately close to your child already.

 

[carmel23]

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Originally Posted by annettemarie I think your DH is being a little overprotective. Last name inside clothing will be next-to-impossible for a stranger to see, unless he is already inappropriately close to your child already.

Usually it is me with the crazy ideas!

 

[Evan&Anna's_Mom]

Wow, I'm really careful about my child's name being visable, but don't have any problem with a name label on the inside of clothes. THey are so small anyway, and how would a stranger come in contact with his sweater at school? Now, if he goes from school to baseball practice at a public park and leaves his sweater around, then maybe... (Just a made up example). But in that case, just the last name shouldn't be a problem.

Do check with the school before doing anything though -- our school has specific rules about how and where labels must be and what they say. In our case, this wouldn't be an issue because first and last name is a required part of the name label, which has to be on absolutely everything other than undies. Socks are really challenging. I think the label company must get a cut from the school!

 

[LiamnEmma]

We use all three initials on the labels of our kids' clothes. I figure it's probably rare for other kids to have the exact same initials as our kids. In our case anyway.