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to be fucking beyond furious with my ten year old daughter

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ovaryhill · 07/09/2015 19:23

Had a call from fraud prevention at my bank today
Daughter has been playing Movistar Planet and has taken my bank acard nd spent £266 over the past couple of months!!!
I'm so upset I could cry

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goodnightdarthvader1 · 14/12/2015 13:16

This thread is 4 months old! I'd wager it's been resolved now!

WorriedWoman1234 · 14/12/2015 13:25

I haven't read the whole thread Ovary but please don't sell the dolls. Find some other way of your DD paying the money back.

Justaboy · 14/12/2015 13:28

19lottie82 Never did find out but shes damn clever with computers, she's written a lot of code over time in C and C++ and it's a bit beyond me!

Comes naturally to her!

TurnOffTheTv · 14/12/2015 13:40

Zombie thread!

FairyFluffbum · 14/12/2015 13:57

Zombie Thread

MistressDeeCee · 14/12/2015 14:20

I read 1st page and was just about to say thread sounded weird, how on earth did everyone know this girl was 10 years old when it didnt say in the OP?! Anyway its a zombie one so alas, I shall never know..

2PurpleCrocs · 14/12/2015 14:23

Mistress it didn't say in the OP, but it did say in the thread title.

MistressDeeCee · 14/12/2015 14:26

Purple yes I just read thread title and thought "uh oh.."! ThanksSmile

Dfg15 · 14/12/2015 14:26

The thread title says she's ten

Dfg15 · 14/12/2015 14:27

Ooh cross posts! sorry

DixieNormas · 14/12/2015 14:29

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Buttwing · 14/12/2015 14:35

Op I feel your pain my 10 yo dd did this last year on the sims she spent almost £200 on fucking dolphin pools and other crap for her sims house. She got a total ban on all iPads, computers, xbox everything for over a year I was furious. Every time she moaned we reminded her she had stolen from us and the family she also did jobs to pay off the money.

LagunaBubbles · 14/12/2015 14:46

Ah just read the WHOLE thread and realised now its a few months old!!!

Buttwing · 14/12/2015 14:47

Oops so it is!!Blush

fallenangel14 · 14/12/2015 15:38

Okay, what do you want out of this? For her to recognise that a) it really is stealing, even if you're not physically handling the money b) to appreciate how hard it is to actually earn money in the first place c) to learn how her actions have upset you?

Why not, once you've calmed down (and I would be as angry as you too), talk quietly to her about all these. And then, ask her to go away and come back with suggestions about how she thinks she could put things right. How could she 'repay' the loss?; how can she apologise and attend to the fact that she's made you now not trust her? What does she think needs to happen to regain that? What does she think would be an appropriate punishment.

It might not work, of course, but it might. Sometimes I think handing out punishments to kids lets them off the hook a bit in terms of them actually taking responsibility for things they've done wrong. Parents are seen as the ones causing them to do without, etc as opposed to kids appreciating that its their actions that have caused the punishment. It's just an idea but why not try this?

NewLife4Me · 14/12/2015 15:46

I think the dd is probably about 11/12 now and has probably paid the money back by now.

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