Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

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Just that really, had lots of notifications of movement on the doorbell camera and lo and behold a kid (8ish years old) from a few houses down with a bunch of daffodils in her hand.

Checked mine in my front garden when I got home and Every. Single. One. has been taken.

I’m just really sad tbh. Know there are much bigger problems in the world but they were a little spark of joy for me 😕

Give her a planter bowl and some bulbs. They're a couple of quid in Poundland.

Why on earth should the OP buy a thieving neighbour anything?

So she learns that if she takes something, she'll be given something else? By the person she took from in the first place? I think your logic's slightly convoluted there...

I’d have been livid. There’s no excuse for theft.

Sorry to hear this and that you really needed the spark of joy. Life’s shitty at times and this isn’t much in reality but I suspect it’s like a last straw kind of situation for you. You sound like you need to treat yourself in some way how ever you can manage or afford. You need a good cheer up about life, I hear you X

Not for children. Unless they were ill educated by their parents, but picking flowers is a sweet thing to do, just unfortunate it was from the OP’s garden.

I understand, I was upset to see people picking (stealing) daffodils in the park. I onlyvhope her parents told her never to do it again.

surely even three year olds know they should never pick flowers as they are there for everyone to enjoy.

Also that you never go into other people’s gardens.

This thread beggars belief!!

It's not sweet to pick them from a park either. Councils plant flowers for all to enjoy.

I'm guessing, and it's a wild guess, the mum maybe unwell, and the girl is trying to cheer her mum up.

It bugs me that people downplay these things. It’s the reason children learn nothing these days. Whilst it’s harmless in theory, they are still yours so I would highlight it. One of the children in our family picked all the flowers off one of my orchids once, the mother said nothing.

3rdStoreydude · Today 18:54 "I'm guessing, and it's a wild guess, the mum maybe unwell, and the girl is trying to cheer her mum up."

The girl's own garden is full of daffodils. Why would her mother be cheered up by being given daffodils stolen from a neighbour's garden?

No one is saying that OP should shout and scream st the child or the. Hold should be punished. But what is the harm in explaining to them? Surely that is the definition of gentle parenting? It creates empathy ( not ours to take/other people get enjoyment out of looking at them), and lack of selfishness

Child not hold

My 5 year old nephew once came home from school with a crayon in his pocket, when his mum challenged him, he said "I don't know what happened". We still laugh about it today.
But...she made him hand it in to the teacher the following morning and apologise for taking it home. He never put anything else in his pocket that didn't belong to him.

The little girl was obviously wrong, and it's sad for the OP who doesn't have her dafs to cheer her up, but the good thing is the kids mum did take responsibility.
I hope the girl, like my nephew, learns a lesson, and respects other people's property in the future. I'm sure she will.

No it’s not, it’s stealing!

Kids do stupid things buy yourself a £1 bunch of daffs at the supermarket

Not saying it's right, but I remember picking flowers for my Mum when she'd been sad to cheer her up.

It didn't occur to me that they belonged to anyone - which they did. I was about 11. And probably a bit dim.

Because gardening takes effort and planning and money. Many of us plan to have seasonal blooms for a specific effect, not just tossing out bulbs wherever they land and forgetting about it.

Maybe flowers are no big deal to you; how you you like it if some entitled little brat marched into your garden and stole something that IS a big deal to you?

How weird people are not to understand that private property is a thing and that an eight-year-old is well of the age to understand that.

Stealing someone elses and depriving them of the joy is not sweet. Lets not got down the aww-bless-its-a-child-let's-invent-a-woe-is-me excuse for justifying something that is wrong. A child that desperately wants to give their mum a bunch of flowers could pick daffodils from the local park or some other public place, there are plenty around even urban areas, or they might even knock on a door and ask nicely whilst putting on the butter wouldn't melt look, that would work on most people.

my sister had this done to her front garden. she then put out a little bucket with some daffodils in it saying "you can take these but please don't pick the ones in the ground". Turned out it was just little kids being little kids - no malintent

Better still, they could earn some pocket money and actually go to the shop where a small bunch costs around £1.
Daffodils in parks are for everyones enjoyment, and like in the ladies garden, they shouldn't be picked.

you can't pick flowers from a public space either!

I’d knock on the door & say to the parent that whilst you don’t really mind a few of the neighbours might not be as liberal minded & might see it as a totally different matter & that you’d hate to see her get into trouble as she looked so sweet picking them; hopefully that will give the parents the nudge needed to tell never do that again it’s theft x

A long time ago, my son kicked a ball into my neighbours daffodils and destroyed them. She came round and shouted at him. He had been thoughtless. He went some way to putting it right by using his pocket money to buy several bunches of daffodils