My son keeps losing his gloves

IV had five kids and i found the best thing to do was plait some wool a long enough peice to thread through the tag on the inside of the coat and down through the arms with a little amount of extra length and attach the gloves by sewing a small part of the wrist of glove to the wool then when he has his coat on but doesnt want the gloves on they will just hang but if he wants them on easy access is fab and easy just leave the wool and gloves on the coat all the time then no more lost gloves

It is just natural for an eight year old to happen this. You have to tell him the importance of not losing it that you have to pay a lot of money all the time to get new ones. It is a good advice to tell him to keep it in his backpack as soon as he takes them out. I am twenty eight years old and I missed my gloves twice this winter, but luckily my husband was following me and he got it. I am a careless person. As a kid, I always lost my hand kerchiefs, pencil boxes, and umbrellas.

Good luck on that..lol. I'm an adult and I still lose my gloves, I was wearing some the other day and I still don't know what I did with them since then..haha. For some reason things like that are hard to keep up with, especially if your not used to wearing them, so when you take them off you just put them down anywhere, then later you can't remember where they're at.

I don't have any kids so any advice I give would be speculative, but I think if you just made him go without gloves it would teach him a lesson. Once he goes through not having gloves, he'll be less likely to lose them once he sees them as something he needs and not something you think he needs.

I think they make clips for gloves and mittens to keep them on the sleeves, pinning them would work just as well, even if he didnt like it, it'd save ya some $ lol

You should get him one of those jackets that have the attached gloves so it would impossible for him to lose his gloves. On the other hand he may lose the entire jacket lol just because the gloves were attached to but my best bet is to buy that jacket cause it loooks awfully cute, expessically with the gloves dangling and stuff lol.

i really hate when that happens! kids loose their gloves so easily. i really don't know what to tellyou. maybe buy cheaper gloves?

When I was a young child at primary school I kept losing my gloves most of the time. I often went to see the lost property teacher. My mom decided to sow my gloves on a piece of elastic connected to my coat. This was a very clever idea. I am so sorry that your son keeps losing his gloves. My oldest nephew has got dyspraxia so it means he finds it hard to be organized. Now he is at secondary school he often gets detention which I think is mean.

I agree with another poster. It must be a male thing. My son who will be 11 next week is forever losing his gloves and hat. So far this year it has not been so bad. The one pair he thought he lost was in the front yard in the snow. Last year though I think he went through 3 or 4 pairs.

When I was a child, a million years ago, to keep me from losing my mittens, my mother ran a cord from one mitten, up[ that sleeve of my coat and down the other sleeve to the other mitten. When I took my mittens off, they just dangled there at the end of my coat sleeves. No more lost mittens, but head scarfs were a different matter.

Yes, I have the same problem here with my 9 year old. Seriously, I told him to keep his gloves in his pockets after he wears them, so he will know where they are. He use to put them in his sleeve at child care, but he's in regular school now, and well...they fall out of the sleeves at school and he has velcro on his pockets to keep them tucked away safely. I bought both him and his sister extra gloves for trading out when they are wet. Do you think he would remember to do as I suggested? Oh my, I buy them at the dollar store, but imagine losing a $10 pair of gloves. Hopefully, he will keep better track of them this year. I sure hope he does!

I've got an 8 year old daughter and she actually hasn't had any kind of a problem with keeping track of her gloves. I told her when she got the new gloves that as soon as she got to school she needed to put her gloves in her backpack and then she needed to do the same thing when she got home from school. I also try to give her a little bit of change as a reward for keeping track of her things and that seems to be good incentive for her.

My granddaughter, who is 9 and the elder one who is 12 have same problem, when they enter home say after school, they used to throw away the socks under the bed or cough, my dauhter in law has fixed 2 boxes on the wall with instruction to keep socks there, it works.. Thank you so much for sharing. Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . HAPPY NEW YEAR

pinning them is the only thing I can think of. When my son was younger. I would get like five pairs of gloves for him from the dollar store because he lost so many.

halyn hi oh myIthinks its something in male genes as my adult son now 51 just two nights ago was telling me how he had lost one glove of each pair. he had a jacket with too shallow side pockets and the top glove was not pushed in deep enough so it slipped out without his noticing it so he started wearing a heavier jacket that had side slanted pockets tow but deeper so a pair of gloves would fit in and would not likely fall out unnoticed. lol lol. He has also had four cell phones before he wised up and put the cell phone into a zipped pouch on his backpack. When he was a kid gloves were the missing item always even though we live in Southern California winters do get cold mornings and evenings and this year its just plain weird, coldest we have ever had it the past two months.maybe he gets the gene from me as I have lost jackets right here in Gold Crest. I get too warm , take the jacket off, put it on the back of my chair and promptly walk off only to remember and go back and someone here has taken three of my jackets. I only hope they do not wear them around here or I will ask where did you find my jacket. lol

When I was a kid in the dark ages, we used to have clips that attached from the glove to the end of the coat sleeve. Don't know if they still make them, but it might be worth googling it to see. :)

Maybe if you make him buy them out of his allowance and work off any extra that the gloves may cost, that would probably be the cure. Won't hurt him a bit and teach some responsibility to boot. After three times and winter only officially began December 21st, I would be a bit perturbed at having to replace them. I can see losing a pair, MAYBE 2, but three? That is alot and too much money to be shelling out. If he has to pay for them, he probably will not lose them. I would go with that and see what happens. Happy New Year!