Hi I am not sure if this is in the right place or not but I hope that someone may be able to advise me.
As the subject line states, my 8yr old son stole from me. He has an Xbox which my husband bought for him without consulting me
Admittedly, I do not know about any of the login details for this device as I seem to spend the time limiting our son’s use of the device and encouraging him to do other things
Anyway at the weekend we were busy swapping bedrooms around and whilst the other children helped, my son sat on the Xbox most of the time and when he was taken off there, he went onto the PC
Anyway I have been billed today for the best part of £200 worth of gaming add-ons spanning the past few days. My card was used to purchase these add-ons and I had no idea
I completely accept that I should have overseen things better and in that sense I feel I let him down
However, he is an intelligent child and he understands that you do not use someone else’s card. He had done so previously a couple of ears ago via my iPhone and I feel like we mustn’t have dealt with it well or got through to him
I have been in contact with the company and they are looking at what can be done
The Xbox has been unplugged (funnily enough it was unplugged yesterday because I had had enough of the amount of time he had been spending on there and I literally made him do offlin activities all day - this was before I even looked at the bank statement)
My question is -how shall I deal with this?
I am so angry and upset, feel guilty for my own part in this (in that I should have been more aware of what had been set up )and also scared for his future if he is capable of doing this at the age of 8
I told him I was going to the police -
If we lived in days gone by ,I would have asked the local copper to come and have a quiet chat with him - but knowing how busy police are and How underfunded , I feel bad to try and attempt this. However, it is in fact fraud, and it was numerous transactions (maybe 20 transactions), not just one. He knew what he was doing was wrong yet he was compelled to do this. Does he have a gaming addiction? Should I look into this?
What would you do ? Has anyone been through similar? Any help appreciated
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8yr old son stole from me
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UnderandOver · 13/02/2018 23:41
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