This year back to school will be something different for everyone. Children will have to get used to the new rules. Masks, little physical contact or saluting with the elbows are some of them. But there are also others that they will have to respect and that will not be so simple: not sharing any type of material.

No more lending a pen to a colleague because yours has been lost or exchanging a wallet by mistake. Now you have to be very aware of everything personal of each one and it can be difficult for a child who still cannot read and who does not identify his name well in his things. Children buy their equipment in the same stores and it is not uncommon for a class to have several identical cases, purses or even coats.

If until now only children’s clothes were personalized in the back to school, now everything has to be personalized and a very original way of doing it is using colored cords. You have to buy cords of at least three different shades and make a long braid with them. Hang one of these braids from your class supplies – from your purse, from your pencil case, or even glue these cords onto your paintings so they’re quickly identifiable.

With her clothes, you must do the same. Hang a braid of this material from each label of each garment. This, regardless of whether it is correctly marked with the name. Thus, the child will identify her material and her clothes with a single glance and there will be no possibility of making a mistake and taking that of any other classmate. By braiding three different shades, the chances of error are even lower and it will be a unique and very personal symbol of the child.

This will prevent you from wearing a partner’s jacket or coat. Or that it appears with changed materials. This will not only allow a greater control of the child’s things, it will also facilitate that there are no contagions between them, not only those due to the coronavirus, but also colds and flu, which tend to spread in the classes very quickly because the most little ones tend to have a lot of contact with each other and, until now, it was common for the material to be common to all of them.