In which my kid comes home in underclothing that isn’t his own
Posted by Isabel on January 6th, 2009. Filed under: My Sweet Babboo.There are a few codes that bloggers tend to follow. Simple things like; don’t blog about your sex life, don’t blog about your crappy marriage, don’t blog about your dad’s affair or your brothers sex life (oopsie, already blogged about that one).
Oh yeah, and don’t blog about potty-training your toddler.
Nobody wants to hear about it. And really, your future teenage child doesn’t want it posted on the interweb.
Okay, so one time I might have mentioned that Babboo was potty-trained. But really, nothing that would embarrass teenage Babboo. At least I hope not.
But here’s the thing. Lately my Sweet Babboo has been coming home from school in underwear that isn’t his own. My kid’s a full on tighty-whitey boy so when I see Elmo underwear peeking out from his jeans I sense a problem. And when I notice him sporting a pair of bright red undershorts, I KNOW there is a problem.
“Whose underbums are you wearing?!”
“Kyle’s Elmo underbums.”
(Oh yeah, we call them “underbums” at our house. Don’t ask. Because really, I’m not sure where the name came from.)
“Whose red underbums are those?”
“Kerry’s underbums.”
“But why are you wearing Kerry’s underbums?!”
Babboo just smiles and runs off to play basketball without answering the question.
I’m quite confident hopeful that he’s just had too many accidents at school and has run out of clean underbums in his own cubby. Which means his teacher is simply borrowing another kid’s extra underbums for my kid.
I just hope they are clean underbums.
Please, please let them be clean.
I mean, I’m laundering them before I return them to the school. (Do you think the parents know their kid is loaning out their undergarments?)
I seriously think I just need to take more clean underbums for Babboo’s school cubby. Because really, let’s be honest, I don’t particularly want my kid thinking it’s cool to borrow underbums.
Especially not Elmo ones.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Is this one of those things you never thought you’d be dealing with before you had kids?
January 7th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Dang, I would be puzzled. Of course, I’d be more puzzled if it was my 10-year-old coming home in someone else’s undies. I really am guessing that it’s from the kids’ stashes, but I would definitely have to ask the school. Just, you know, to ease my mind.
January 7th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Maybe, just maybe they are extra’s that the center has on hand, you know just in case something happens and the child doesn’t have any extras? I’d ask, what would it hurt? And besides, if he’s coming home in underbums (cute name for them by the way!) that aren’t his, where are the ones he went to school wearing, and why aren’t the ‘dirty’ ones, if they are in fact dirty, in a biohazard bag waiting for you to take home to launder?
It’s a mystery for sure…..
January 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Oh I remember the “joys” of trying to find clean clothes for kids at the nursery I worked at when they had an accident and we had run out of their clean ones. We never used another child’s stuff though, only stuff that parents had left or donated through the years as their child had grown up – we had boxes full of these things (clean I swear). It wasn’t too bad for the one’s Babboo’s age but when the babies got ill and we had to change their clothes when nappies exploded 3 or 4 times during the day we quickly ran out of things small enough for them – then they ended up being wrapped in clothes far too big for them – poor things! I dread to think what the parents thought – I guess I kinda know now though, huh?
January 7th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Um…Are you going to ask his teacher about this? You should know what’s going on! What if Babboo has a new fetish for stripping off his skivvies and stealing them out of other kids’ cubbies? (Hey, stranger things have happened, I’m sure. Kids are unpredictable.)
January 7th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I kind of like when people post about potty training..it makes me feel better about my own kid and her potty training woes.
January 7th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
You think they’d just tell you if you’re running low on underwear instead of borrowing some poor other kids elmo undies. I hope they’re clean too! For yours and Babboo’s sake!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:26 am
There is nothing wrong with Elmo underwear. I love Elmo.