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My Daughter’s Relationship With the Lost & Found at School
It all started with gloves in Kindergarten.
If you have kids, you may understand the insanity of the glove issue. They lose gloves almost weekly. One or both. You give up buying gloves that cost more than a few dollars pretty early in December, as by this point you’ve probably purchased 3–5 pairs. (That number goes up exponentially per kid).
I learned, after the first year I had two in school, to stockpile the cheap one-size crap gloves once they hit the shelves in August or September. Gloves disappear from the shelves somewhere around the end of January (except maybe a clearance pair or two that are never the right size) when they start bringing out the Spring and Summer attire. That first year, when my school-aged kids lost gloves after January, it was impossible to find any on the shelves, and there were at least two months left of cold weather and the necessity of gloves.
My kids’ school required boots, snow pants, coat, and gloves to be able to step foot in the snow at recess. My daughter LOVES playing in the snow. With no gloves to be had at any store, she was miserable at recess.
The best and worst thing happened that year.
My daughter’s relationship with the school lost and found…
