do you monogram backpacks?

[crazy4disney01]

We are going to buy DD a Little Mermaid backpack/lunch tote for preschool. My cousin said not to monogram for safety reasons. However, I am going inside the school everyday to check her in and out so to me safety really isn't an issue. What do you think?

Happy 4th of July!!!!

 

[HaleyB]

Do you mean with her full first name or just initials?

I wouldn't put my childs first name on their backpack, it is a saftey issue. Even with you picking her up and dropping her off, you just never know. Better safe than sorry.

 

[JVL1018]

I never understand why people get so paraniod over personalizing children's things.

Kids that little are rarely, if ever, alone(like you, we have to drop off and pick up --all the way through 1st grade actually).
And if they do somehow get to be alone away form you at some time, what are the odds that they will have their backpack on at the time, and be in the presence of someone who wants to use that information to try and get their attention so they can kidnap them.

And when they are with us, we say their name aloud, so people could find it out a lot easier than peering on their backpack.

Regardless, every preschool class my kids have been in, we were asked to write their names on their backpacks, so you can either monogram it, or end up writing it on with a Sharpie. LOL

I say do it.

 

[Beth76]

At our preschool my son's backpack was required to have his name written clearly on the outside. Go for it!

 

[dvcfamily41801]

We got one from LL Bean last year for my son for school and only had his initials on it.

 

[barkley]

take into consideration how many other kids with the same first name may be in the class-then decide if you want to go with initials or "such and such last name" (in other words probably not a great idea to go with just a first name on a backpack/tote that 20 other little girls might have).

 

[kbkids]

For preschool I would - and did. DS is starting kindgarten this year though, and big sister has told him that it's not cool.

 

[Sparx]

when everything was monogramed a few years back, I had "SS" or "SL" (then first and last or first and middle, we changed my last name since then) on several things. I say go for it. I think the saftey issues would be someone yelling out the name they read, and seeing your child turn around, there for, knwoing your childs name. so maybe just the initials?

 

[TinkInPink]

I agree with vickie- never understood the big deal my kids know to not go with someone they do not know whether they know their name or not and if they are young enough to worry about that when are they really alone. At a soccer meeting for are you ready for this 11 yr old girls they had to ask about names on the shirts and one paranoid Mom was worried but the rest of us just laughed and said believe us if anyone did take one they would bring them back after about 5 minutes of the whining! If an 11 yr old does not know to go with a stranger then there are bigger problems.

You will just have to put the name on it some way anyhow so I say go for it.

Ughhh Holidays my older DD was signed in, sorry this is really from a Mom.

 

[clh2]

I would go with first initial, last name.

 

[Wishing on a star]

My son's backpack has always been monogrammed with his full name.

I really don't get the hysteria.

I mean, we are talking about a school backpack... Everyone at school knows and calls out everybody's name anyhow!

Since when is a child's name any secret?????

I am one who uses names as I speak with people. It is always DS this... DS that.... It would take anyone all of 30 seconds to figure out my son's name anyhow!!!

I say the problem of mix-ups, loss, or theft is a bigger concern at school.

Go for the monogram

 

[kbkids]

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[Hedy]

I wouldn't have a problem with first name, but initials might be a better idea (if she has a common first name).

 

[LisaNJ25]

I do and have no problem with it.

 

[4chitlins]

My kids have their initials but not their names. Comes in handy because more kids than one have the same backpack

 

[va32h]

My kids' school requires them to have their names on backpacks and lunchboxes.

I do understand a parents' fears for their child's safety, but at some point one has to assess the risks and decide what is reasonable and unreasonable.

Since I meet my kids in front of their school every day, I am not overly worried about someone luring them away. Their names are written on the tops of their backpacks, in such a way that a person would have to be standing right over them to read it. If the stranger is that close, he could just grab them and not waste time dilly dallying over calling them by name. And even if there were no name written, my children leave school each day to a chorus of "Goodbye_______!" so it isn't as though anyone within earshot doesn't know who they are.

 

[Marla Hellwig]

My daughter's last school back pack she had a name tag hanging off of it.

Her swim bag has full name on it - we have been to swim meets with several hundred swimmers there

 

[Buckalew11]

We always do. Have had both first name and just initials. I always buy LL Bean or Land's End so they last and will be hers for years to come anyway.