Well, it happened. It’s something almost every parent will experience but we all hope to avoid – we caught M stealing. She snuck some books into her backpack from her daycare.
When she got in the car she began telling me she got some books from the library. They do have a library at school but the kids don’t bring the books home so when I asked her questions and she couldn’t answer them I knew something was up. So I asked her to give me the books and written across them in marker was the last name of her daycare owner.
Definitely not library books.
The funny thing about kids is that they really, truly, honestly believe you’re not any smarter than they are.
So I told her when we got home she was going to get in trouble for lying and for stealing the books. The very first thing she asked was if I had to tell her Daddy. So I knew immediately that was exactly what I was going to do.
It wasn’t pretty. For any of us.
We also made her take the books back to the daycare and apologize for taking something that didn’t belong to her. That was actually the toughest part for her-she buried her head in my legs for about 5 minutes, she was so embarrassed.
I remember when I was a kid and I got in trouble my Mom would always tell me that it hurt her as much as it hurt me. I had no idea how true that was until I become a Mom myself…
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