Whether you’re sending your child off to school or homeschooling like we are, you need to make sure that you identify those things that belong to your little learner.

When I was a kid going to school we had to cover all of our school books in brown paper bags, and then we’re color them and put our name on them.

It was important that our name was on them so that we could get credit for returning them at the end the of year and not have to pay for the books.  It was always neat to get the nice shiny new books too!

With homeschooling, it can be a little more obvious whose book is whose (and less likely that you will misplace it!) but that still means that you have to use labels to keep track of your studies.  One of these places will be the file folders you use to keep your reports and other paperwork that you file with the state—or for your grades and transcripts.

You definitely don’t want to misplace these important papers, and having them labeled will help you easily find them when you need them.

Politicians come with labels too—some they try to affix to themselves and some affixed by others!  It’s amazing what labels can do!