To think helping yourself out of someone else fridge is just RUDE..........even if you are 13!

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Minding friends child who opened my fridge and took out a chocolate bar without asking.

I'm to say the least. Do children actually do this? I would be devastated if mine did this someone else home .

YANBU, that is rude. I would be too

I am shocked even more when I joked, where did you get that from?
The reply was "out your fridge!"

Definitely rude - I am sure mine would never have done this.

(Does a 13yo need minding?)

With a younger sibling.

Very rude.

I hope you told them to put it back?! Or was it already half eaten?

Extremely rude.

I assume you took the chocolate away and explained the house rules?

House rules explained but the chocolate was already eaten!

YANBU!!

That is extremely rude. Even my own DS isn't allowed to help himself to chocolates out of the fridge, or in fact most foods and snacks with out clearing it with me first.

Did you let him eat it??

So they just grabbed it & scoffed it before you'd realised? Very rude indeed

This is one of my pet hates. My nieces and nephews do this all the time. I'm the person who gets it from their mum from them eating rubbish but what can I do, lock my fridge?!

I would be mortified if my DD did that!

DD is 16, and offers her friends things that we have here without asking, which I don't mind, but I think it rude to just help yourself.

See, if this happened to me, even if the child hadn't yet eaten it, I wouldn't be brave enough to 'tell them off'. I'm truly terrible at being assertive with other people's children.

How rude! I asked my mum if I could eat something out of the fridge until I was about 19!

Most dreadfully rude! Did you make him put it back? If not, then a reprimand was in order.

My offspring are teenagers/young adults. Their friends are frequent and welcome visitors. They ALWAYS ask if it's okay to get a drink or go to the loo. Always (Even when I've said to them to help themselves). And when they do, they offer me a drink too!

For a child/teenager of that age to make free with your kitchen is completely not on!

First time visitors really, helping out parents.

Apple you don't need to shout or be nasty. A smile a firm voice and a head tilt usually do the job.

Visiting children very rarely misbehave more than once in my house and I've never shouted at anyone else's kids.

An adult wouldn't just help themselves from your fridge so I don't see why a child should behave any differently. At 13 the child should certainly know that you don't steal.

Hubby has just said that's like opening your wallet and taking money out!

I know I am rambling I about this, but jolly I'm so shocked!

Yanbu at all, extremly rude, my ds 2.5 years opens the fridge without asking, but then again he's only 2, not 13!

Mrs Devere

There is no reason why the child should have got more than one box. Why didnt you get up, say that one box was OK and put the rest out of reach. The grapes too? For goodness sake.

As for this child, an instruction that, in future, he should ask for a snack, not help himself as this isnt his home. 13 is old enough to be told upfront.

Extremely rude, my DCs always ask before taking food and have been brought up to wait to be asked when at someone else's house.

At 13 he should know better.

My kids wouldn't even do this in our house, let alone someone else's!