Picturesinthefirelight Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) I'm getting pretty fed up. Yesterday Dd left both pairs of pointes plus her sift blocks at school. She apparently left them in someone else's locker (why?) so they were taken to the boarding house for safety. So today which is the deadline for deciding exam entries she has no shoes having alreeady been made to sit out class last week for having no tights. And she's supposed to go to a workshop on Sunday that she's had permission to attend & I've paid for with no shoes. It's over £200 worth of shoes she can't be bothered to look after. Grrrr! Edited September 25, 2015 by Picturesinthefirelight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circe Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sounds very familiar. You have my sympathies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Mine`s unorganised and VERY untidy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I'm screaming for you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 It appears they were not left in a locker but dumped in a corridor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 (edited) DD very organised but did occasionally leave/loose things. Non dd and utter nightmare and you have my sympathies. Her teacher complained to me at parents evening that she always had to wait to start the lesson as non-dd never had her pencil. I used to keep a pack of pencils in the car and give her one in the morning - can't do that with pointe shoes!! Edited September 25, 2015 by porthesia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pups_mum Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 You have my sympathy. DD has her intermediate tap exam at the weekend and for various reasons we are having to do it at another school some substantial distance away. Has she got her stuff ready? What do you think!? But if I do anything she will throw a wobbler and complain about being treated like a child. I try to bite my lip and remind myself that I was a teenager once too.... And on the whole, I think our dancing children are better organised than their peers without similar interests - heaven help their parents! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Don't get me started.....once DS managed to lose his ballet bag containing ALL of his dance stuff at WL SS on the 1st day ??? Another time he called me from school as he lost his (street) shoes and couldn't get home....How on earth do you manage to lose your street shoes ?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Dd has lost her street shoes on more than one occasion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guesty Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Agree on all counts... But I also know how i was when I was a child. Let's not expect our children to be organised when we most likely were not! As parents we see the other side and think our children will 'use their common sense' and look after things ...did we at their age? I look back at what I put my parents thru...and I love my mum and dad! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sadly a familiar scenario today is that of the child with two homes because of divorce and the ballet kit always seems to be in the wrong parent's house or car. I should tell them off - after all it's still their responsibility to know where their ballet stuff is, but somehow I can't....... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pups_mum Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 To be fair, I'm heading for 50 and I had a bizarre shoe loss incident recently, when one of my uniform shoes disappeared from the changing room at work. To fully understand the weirdness of this, you first have to know that I have freakily small feet (1.5) so nobody could possibly mistake mine for their own. And who would move only one?? The domestics turned the changing room upside down looking for it but it never re appeared. Very peculiar. So I do have some sympathy with the shoe losers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 And then of course there's the washing machine sock eater monster! Seriously though what I find wierd is the amount of stuff in our lost property that no-one has ever claimed! Outdoor shoes and coats, pointe shoes, leather flamenco shoes, character shoes, ballet slippers, leotards and even school sweatshirts (I suppose they presume those have been left at regular school not at ballet) overflow our boxes of stuff left behind in the changing room or studio. They're expensive things - why don't they even notice they're missing? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Shortcake Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I sympathize with parents whose DDs kill pointe shoes in no time or lose the damn things. The expense of replacing them must be horrendous - when I first began to take a serious interest in ballet I simply couldn't believe how much they cost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Everything of Dds is named, I'm the queen of name labels, even down to stickers on her equipment. She really is hopeless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sadly a familiar scenario today is that of the child with two homes because of divorce and the ballet kit always seems to be in the wrong parent's house or car. I should tell them off - after all it's still their responsibility to know where their ballet stuff is, but somehow I can't....... A few years back I was sitting waiting for dd's class to go in, and a chap came along to collect his little dd. He asked the teacher if he could buy the whole ballet kit, including character shoes and skirt, and afterwards the teacher told me that it was because she spent every other weekend with dad, so they needed two lots of ballet clothes and shoes - one set for each house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annaliesey Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Oh dear my DD is a bit forgetful but I've severely drummed into her about being more organised, putting stuff away and it's become a bit of an obsession. She's got much better lately but the things we lose most are water bottles.. Somehow we can't conquer that one!! We have had instances where other children have picked up her stuff by mistake and then only realised a month or so later ... Grr! I'm forever checking her stuff and I'd like to think if she came home with other peoples stuff she or I would notice fairly quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucinda Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 A few years back my DD “lost” her only pair of soft block shoes. I asked her to check at the studio when she went to her lesson the following week and she “found” them. She then started complaining that they didn’t fit properly and she needed a new pair before her upcoming exam, which was a week away. I thought this was odd as I was fairly certain that her feet had stopped growing. After a close look at the shoes and I realized that they were not hers! The ribbon stitching was different, they were ½ a size smaller and I’d named DD’s inside. The trouble was we didn’t know whom this pair belonged to. To make matters worse I couldn’t buy a new pair as nowhere had a pair DD’s size in stock. After a few tears and a terse conversation, DD agreed to approach her very strict teacher and explain her dilemma. It transpired that there were three students with very similar size feet and they had all inadvertently swapped their shoes! It all worked out well in the end as DD’s shoes were returned ASAP, the day before her exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Dd lost a named school t shirt after PE (can't remember what she came home in!)- no-one could find it. Then 6 months later a parent found it at the bottom of their ironing pile..... the worst bit is that they're none iron t-shirts and really do dry perfectly smooth.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interested Parent Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I must be so lucky! From the age of 8 my DD insisted on looking after her own kit, giving me items that needed washing, replacing and keeping everything in the same pockets, tubs and tins so that she knew where everything was. The night before she would 'stock check' her dance bag. Every day I would say 'have you got this, have you got that' and she would always reply 'yes Mum!' including auditions and performances. I agree with Guesty because I was/am just as much as a control freak as she is. Now my youngest DD? That's a different story and I sympathise with you all, I just think she takes after her Dad ((; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harwel Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 I'm like you Interested Parent - I have one type of each! One super organised and is now starting to remind me of things, the other is a dizzy daydream and i sometimes wonder how he will ever hold down a job. Oh the joys of parenting! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 He will, Harwel! My ditzy ADHD daughter ran a chiropractic clinic and now works in a hospital. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovetoDance2003 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Oh dear pictures, it would seem that dd is in the 'dog' house! My dd just has no sense of time! She is never 'organised' in that way and it drives me insane! ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2dancersmum Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 When my DD was in reception class she went swimming with school and they always had to hurry to get changed. One day, DD came home wearing a school T-shirt (un named) with her school dress on top. She had dressed in a real hurry. What we couldn't understand was whose clothing it was as the teacher knew nothing about it when we handed the tshirt in at school the next day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picturesinthefirelight Posted September 26, 2015 Author Share Posted September 26, 2015 Well , dh managed to rearrange his schedule to take Dd to the boarding house before it closed for the weekend. So now we are just missing one pair of ballet tights (I can live with that as she has 4 more pairs) I forgot to say she also left her school skirt behind too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovetoDance2003 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Well done to dh pictures!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Unorganised and slobby! Earlier this year I decided to spring clean my dd's bedroom. On pulling out the chest of drawers I found what I can only describe as a nest of dead bun nets. The little monkey had been poking them down the back of the furniture as too lazy to put them in the bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Lovely!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 At the end of last term I found in the boarding house the coat that dd lost in year7. It has long been replaced, but dd had taken it back for yr10 as she reckons it fits better than the replacement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nana Lily Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 The next time you are looking for lost property Karen If you come across a duvet and pillowcase set from IKEA of Rosebud design do let me know! How that can have gone missing heaven only knows! #themysteriesoflostproperty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) I was briefly a Receptionist at secondary school where one of my tasks was Lost Property. After every lunch I would strap lost blazers, jumpers etc to the register with elastic bands, so that they found their rightful owner. For larger items I would send a note via the register and at break the children would come to fetch them. One young man collected his coat and I found it at the end of the same day draped casually over a fence! Worst horrors were the rugby and hockey socks, they were awful, covered in mud, smelly, but this was nothing to the changing rooms at a well known very expensive boys boarding school. I accompanied dd when her school had use of the swimming pool; when I took the children to the toilets there were these little piles of lost swimming trunks, well that's what I think they were, I didn't get too close, I'm shuddering just remembering. Edited September 27, 2015 by porthesia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 As a ballet teacher who also ends up with lost property can I make a plea - NAMES IN EVERYTHING! It is then easy to return the item to its owner. Unnamed items are often not claimed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted September 27, 2015 Share Posted September 27, 2015 I named all my dds property and my own but we all had items go missing which were never recovered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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