to think that if my baby is going to shoplift, she should get chocolate and wine, not crisps?

[DrSeuss]

DH took DD, 13 months, to the corner shop and was stopped by the owner on the way out. The owner pointed out that DD was holding a packet of crisps which she had nabbed when her dad wasn't looking. Fortunately the owner has known DD since she was born and just found it funny. But seriously, DD, crisps? There was wine, there was cake, there was chocolate and you swiped crisps? Did Mummy teach you nothing?!

What's with the snotty shop assistants? If I worked in a shop, I'd be pleased somebody had been honest enough to take something back, and thank them!

Unfortunately, neither of my DCs have kleptomaniac tendencies.

DS3 or 4 once swiped a Fathers Day card while we looked round card shops. I didn't realise till we got home. So I gave it to DH from them!

They also stole a huge bar of Galaxy from the local shop, which I noticed as I got out the door and ran back in to put it back.

Mine half-inched a whole tray of chewing gum off the counter at Sainsbury's back in the days when he was in a buggy. Shame I can't stand chewing gum!

DS1 was 4 or 5 when he said, as we left a shop "The alarm doesn't go off if the stolen things are in your tummy."

Apparently he had eaten a sweet from the pick and mix as I was queuing to pay.

signet2012

You need to send ex's ds to DrSuess - he can give lessons

Rofl @Lynette Scavo's DS. In fairness to him there really was only one way to test that theory...

My DD stole a toy dog from one shop and a shoe from another. In her defence, the shoe was a Lelli Kelly monstrotsity that I said she would never get while I had breath in my body.
I didn't notice until we were in a taxi. How I missed the sequins and beads is beyond me.
We took it back.

Dc1 always used to take things from mothercare, without fail! The staff got used to a red-faced me dashing back in to give back her loot. In the end used to check her before we went out the shop.

The staff were very good natured about it and found it quite amusing. She never took anything from anywhere else. Very strange!

Remember I went to the supermarket with DS when he was under a year old and tucked in a cosytoes in his buggy - when we got home and I lifted him out a veritable treasure trove fell out of the cosytoes. I had the shopping basket perched on the hood of the buggy and it obscured my view of his thieving little mitts! I was too embarrassed to take it all back but too guilted to keep it so I chucked it all in the bin.

Mind you, he did an even better one not long after when a friend and I took our DS's into M&S. Crowded store, circular racks really close together. We were browsing through ladies nightwear and looked down to see her DS snotting green ick across the hem of an expensive white towelling dressing gown and mine had chewed a hole in another. We were miles too poor to afford to buy the stuff, so we legged it in deep and abiding shame, leaving the trashed dressing gowns tucked discreetly away behind the others on the rack. I blush every time I think of it, 26 years later.

My dd nicked a Thomas the tank engine slipper, just the one, it was for her baby brother apparently! He has two feet though!

This reminds me of last Christmas in work,a group of women came in with a little girl of about 3,she took a liking to a hello kitty bag that we were selling.
Little girl carried it round the shop and I heard one of he women say oh look what xxxx has got,no one told her to put it back.
They walked out of the door and were all laughing cos they hadn't paid for the bag,so I went and asked for it back,the mum tried to pretend they had no bag so I just pointed at it and said that bag,can we have it back please?
That was intentional stealing and really not on.

Ds nicked a jelly by concealing the entire thing in his mouth when he was two. It was a lemon one.

And the ex's cat used to go into other houses and return with all manner of things, including fish and chips and a package containing a very nice paté.

A whole jelly!?! Nice one miniManic

Dd once nicked some perfume from the Lancôme counter at duty free. I found it once I had lifted her out at the plane and the stewardess told me to keep it.

DS has had chocolate before and he once managed to get a toy car out of the package in the Disney store without me noticing. DD picked up the empty box from next to the pushchair when we were in the que. we looked down to seem him clutching the car like his life depended on it!

My mum admitted to positioning my baby brothers pushchair near a jewellery stand once as she really like the necklaces but couldn't afford them

My Mum was pushing DD through a market when DD was about 14 months old. Someone looked at DD and said "You're enjoying that, aren't you?" Mum looked down to see DD munching on a bloody great strawberry she'd lifted from the fruit and veg stall.
About 6 months later she excelled herself when she managed to steal an £18 pair of kid's trousers from a shop in a theme park.

My dd managed to pinch a "shapers choc Bar" from Boots. Could have picked the real thing! At least I noticed before we left shop.