Stealing from my house!

[Lucy88]

My son has a piggy bank and each Friday he gets £2 to put in it. I am trying to teach him the value of money and to save up for the things you want. Anyway, ex-H was looking after him (in my house) at half term last week and as he is out of work, he had no money with him. My DS said that he wanted an ice-cream when he went to the park and instead of explaining that he had no money (or ensuring that he saved some money from last weeks benefit) he took £3 from my DS's piggy bank.

I only found out when I went to take some small change out of it to put it in the Building Society.

I am being unreasonable to think that ex-H should not come into my house and take money that clearly doesn't belong to him and that he should make sure he has got £1.50 on him to buy his own DS an ice-cream?

[AlCrowley]

So he took money to buy himself an ice cream too!! That's not on.

[muggglewump]

I don't think that's that bad, but he should have mentioned it to you and given it back next time.

[mumofthreesweeties]

OP I wouldnt really deem it 'stealing' though

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

I would class the 1.50 he took for his own ice cream stealing. It wasn't his money to take. OP, YANBU.

[FabIsGoingToGetFit]

Your son might have said it was fine.

Maybe your ex was also trying to teach him you sometimes have to pay yourself for things you want and your son said buy one for you too, daddy.