[Ansteorra] Child ID Tags

[Chris Zakes]

At 08:46 PM 2/8/2012, you wrote:
>>From: Cait O'Hara <moc at seneschal.ansteorra.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Child ID Tags
>>To: "Padraig Ruad O'Maolagain" <padraig_ruad at irishbard.org>,
>>"Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>>Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 9:29 AM
>>
>>
>>One thing that Gulf Wars does is to put wrist bands out at troll.They
>>offer the bands for each parent to put on their child if they wish. It
>>has a place to put the parent's name, number and where they are
>>camping.
>>
>>Cait
>
>I think that this should be made a requirement, not just be made
>available. Again, one of the reasons is to show that the SCA is making
>efforts to safeguard the child, as well as, I think, these bands being
>useful.
>
>How do you get all that info onto a wrist band though? Or are these
>wider than the half-inch wide band I am imagining?
>
>If these were removable, and thus re-useable, would we have problems
>with children taking them off and losing them (or swapping them?) or
>do they need to be the type that you can't easily remove without
>destroying them?
>
>Thanks,
>   Stefan

Back when Ansteorra was doing the wristband-thing, the bands were 
about an inch wide. They could not usually be removed unless the 
fastening was deliberately loose so the kid could slide it off. 
Normally they would have to be cut off. (They were hospital ID 
wristbands, you don't want the patients removing them on a whim.)

On the other hand, by the time our kids were around six or seven, 
they thought the wristbands were a waste of time--they knew who they 
were, who their parents were and where our campsite and listfield 
pavillion was located. They also had sense enough not to wander off 
and get lost.

         -Tivar Moondragon