Where do they stash their . . . . . . ?

[Cadillac]

SOCKS!?!??

My whole ccrew of kids and their darn socks are going to drive me mad! I swear they wait until I have to pee or turn my back for a second, then its a mad rush to take off and hid their sock in ridiculous places!

Anyone else have this problem?

I'm ready to just start buying packs and then swapping them out with parents so that I dont have to send anyone else home with no socks EVER AGAIN!!!

[cfred]

Take them off for the day and put them back on before they leave. That's the solution that has spared me any more of the frantic hunt :)

[Bookworm]

Maybe have the parents send slippers for the kids. I find that since the kids have slippers on (robeez for the younger ones) that they are less inclined to take their slippers or socks off. In the summer, I just let them go barefeet.

[MonkeyPrincess]

I thought it was just me, but i guess you ladies have the 'socks' problem too. My 2.5 yr old daughter and my 21 month old dcg always take off their socks! I have found them in the couch cushions, under the couch and mixed in their bed blankets. I just get to the point that if they are constantly taking off their socks, then i leave them off, until it's outside time or home time.

[monkeys]

I was letting the kids take off their sock and put them in their bags, but then they fighting to put them on when it was time to go outside in the winter. So now its socks on! Yes, constant reminders to keep them on or to put them back on, but it beats the power struggle before the get their boots on. Can't wait for the summer weather!

[torontokids]

I have one that does this and my approach was different (I only have one though!) Every time he takes them off he has to stop playing and help me find them, put them on. He is getting so sick of it he's just loosing interest

[apples and bananas]

Hahaha, this is my biggest pet peeve! I can take a lot, but lost socks... UGH!!!!

I take them off and put them away. If they're not going to wear their clothes properly they loose them.

When my daughter was in case she would take her socks off and hide them all the time. Several time she came home without a sock or both socks.

[JennJubie]

Mine hate socks, too. My rule is if they take their socks off, they get stashed in their shoes.

[michellesmunchkins]

I'm with the kids, I hate socks :) I let them take them off when they arrive and I put them into their boots/shoes and put them back on when we go outside. I too got tired of having to play the sock game every night lol

[sunnydays]

I think it depends on how cold your floors are. My daycare is in the basement and the floors get pretty cold, so I insist that they wear socks and slippers (the slippers usually deter them from taking them off, but sometimes they take socks and slippers off and i just make them put them back on). I feel they are too young to be able to say "I am cold, so I will put my socks back on"...so just as with mittens, etc, my job is to make sure they wear them (except in summer when I let them go sockless). Maybe if I had a mainfloor, carpeted play area, I would probably just let them go sockless. If you feel their feet and they are cold, I would say you have to make them keep socks on, no matter how annoying it is.

[Trace of Angels]

Yep my crew do this too......... I call them the sockless club, once one does it they all do. I have radiant heat floors throughout my entire daycare and although it makes me clean my floors more (I don't want them going home with dirty feet) I let them and just throw their socks in their cubbies for when we go outside.........I pick my battles.......that's not one of them :-)

Although I might pick that battle if there was no heat in my floors, I wouldn't want little ones with cold feet :no:

[bright sparks]

Once they pull them off they are told they can have them back at the end of the day. Thats it. I hate the way some parents eyeball me as incompetant when I return them home with a missing sock lolol I have siblings who wear slippers which works well

[playfelt]

In my contract I ask for velcro running shoes for indoor use to be left at my house - will accept robeez for infants up to 18 months but after that I want shoes because I want them to learn to do them. When they get to school this will be the rule so they might as well learn to wear them.

It protects toes from getting stepped on, stubbed toes, toys hurting toes when dropped, no slipping, gives better traction and helps the youngest stand properly with a flat foot - no tippy toes.

[Momof4]

Hahaha, this is a universal problem. I like the little elasticized shoes that keep the socks on and protect little feet a bit when they step on dinky cars and the sharp corners on little wooden blocks, etc. But I have to admit that I'm already going barefoot 24/7 and wearing my sandals. A lot of people prefer bare feet, babies included!