Helpful Tips for New Parents please!!!

[huggermugger]

Yup - loadsa sport, but not too "rah, rah, rah", honest...

Possible useful links:

http://www.uniformwarehouse.co.uk/html/games_kit.html
http://www.newitts.com/home - this one is good for rugby/football socks
ebay!
and I like these people for labels:
http://www.easy2name.com/index.htm

hth (no associations with any of these!)

[YadaYada]

Thanks - very much appreciated. I

was sport, sport, sport at school so am at a loss to explain the completely non-sporting nature of my son! He has a total lack of hand-eye-foot co-ordination! S

till, have broken the news to him tonight re plenty of sport and he is digesting the news.......

[huggermugger]

Well, my DS went to CH spectacularly unprepared for any form of competitive sport by home and primary school. He was recently selected for the Cricket Squad (aka "on squad") for the second time (long story) and... he has just called me to say he came in 38th in steeplechase today; 70th or something last year so we're both rather thrilled. It's both a personal and family best... someone deflate that mother.... all runners in his House were plyed with Capri Sun & Mars bars after the race & are celebrating with pizza tonight, so maybe that will help to soften the blow for your DS!! They do appear to believe in the carrot & stick approach - tho actually the carrots are usually of the carbohydrate-laden variety

[huggermugger]

BTW, brilliant topic - wish someone had thought of it when we were starting. Things I Wish I'd Known... ooo - there's another topic!

[lonelymom]

Well, my DS went to CH spectacularly unprepared for any form of competitive sport by home and primary school. He was recently selected for the Cricket Squad (aka "on squad") for the second time (long story) and... he has just called me to say he came in 38th in steeplechase today; 70th or something last year so we're both rather thrilled. It's both a personal and family best... someone deflate that mother.... all runners in his House were plyed with Capri Sun & Mars bars after the race & are celebrating with pizza tonight, so maybe that will help to soften the blow for your DS!! They do appear to believe in the carrot & stick approach - tho actually the carrots are usually of the carbohydrate-laden variety

Well done to your son! According to my daughter only those who finished within 25 minutes were placed, and she was, so she's extremely happy (distance running really isn't her thing, sprinting definitely is!). Her house are celebrating with pizza tonight too!

YadaYada, I really wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure he'll find a happy sporting level!

[lonelymom]

If you're looking for iron-on name labels (not suitable for sports kit, bedding etc, but okay for civvies) they are £1.75 for 50 on ebay (+99p postage).

[huggermugger]

I'm sure he'll find a happy sporting level!

Happy sporting level... love it

[lonelymom]

[Barnes Mum]

If you're looking for iron-on name labels (not suitable for sports kit, bedding etc, but okay for civvies) they are £1.75 for 50 on ebay (+99p postage).

As a matron, as well as a parent, I would really recommend keeping to the sew-on labels, even for civvies. The iron-on variety don't survive the laundry presses very well and this can lead to very distressed children who's clothes then don't get returned from the laundry. The children then have to hunt them down in lost property. Still on the subject of laundry please bear in mind that everything goes through industrial tumble driers so only send your children with clothing that will suvive tumble drying. They also get upset if their favourite top gets shrunk!

[lonelymom]

If you're looking for iron-on name labels (not suitable for sports kit, bedding etc, but okay for civvies) they are £1.75 for 50 on ebay (+99p postage).

As a matron, as well as a parent, I would really recommend keeping to the sew-on labels, even for civvies. The iron-on variety don't survive the laundry presses very well and this can lead to very distressed children who's clothes then don't get returned from the laundry. The children then have to hunt them down in lost property. Still on the subject of laundry please bear in mind that everything goes through industrial tumble driers so only send your children with clothing that will suvive tumble drying. They also get upset if their favourite top gets shrunk!

Sorry, I should have said that I only use the iron-on labels for civvies to identify her clothes. I am blessed with a daughter who doesn't put any of her clothing down to the laundry to be washed ( ) because she doesn't want it to get shrunk or put in a mixed colour wash, instead preferring to bring it all home to me at leave weekend!!! All the items she does put through the school laundry, ie sports kit, bedding, towels etc all have sewn-in labels courtesy of my mother-in-law

[huggermugger]

Deep envy of having co-operative & helpful mother-in- law....

[lonelymom]

By the way, I'm not implying that the laundry ladies shrink/dye clothes at all, I just have a very fussy daughter! All of her sports kit etc has been through the laundry many times and is perfectly okay. However, one of her quilt covers has gone missing somewhere in the laundry, but thanks to my mother-in-law it is nicely labelled and should find it's way back soon!

[lonelymom]

Deep envy of having co-operative & helpful mother-in- law....

Is there something you would like to get off your chest huggermugger? We could be your therapy if you need to talk...

[huggermugger]

What do you mean - "Could be" ??? why on earth do you think I'm here?

As for co-operative mother in law (I've been dying to use this smiley)... :deadhorse:

[lonelymom]

I'll drink to that!