Neighbour’s kid picked my daffodils

[Lucylooloo2]

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 😕

I posted a link earlier in the thread that some councils want to implement fines of upto £5,000 for people picking daffodils from the park or other public spaces. If it comes into play then some on this thread may be in for an unpleasant surprise.

"Little kids being little kids" is absolute bullshit.

There is nothing about being a little kid that = taking stuff that doesn't belong to them. If they are old enough to be out unsupervised, they are fucking well old enough to know better than to tresspass and steal.

If they aren't old enough, their parents are negligent to not supervise. Or the type of arseholes who think it's OK to grab whatever they please.

It's not cute, sweet, or innocent.

I couldn't tell you where there are public daffodils anywhere near me. And certainly not anywhere my 8yo could get to unassisted. The local parks are just grass and swings.

Taking public daffodils isn't really any better than taking private daffodils.
But I still think the kids heart was in the right place even if she was wrong to take them.

The mum has taken on board what Op has said and offered up an apology. Kid must have been spoken too as well

Aww, now that is super sweet. x😎

I actually love gardening and take pride in my garden. But would I get ott and call a child I don’t know an ‘entitled little brat’ because they picked a few daffodils…. Err nope, because I’m an adult who’s lived a little.

The kid made a mistake, they’ve tried to make amends. Relax. There are kids out here in the real world doing far worse. Those kids are more deserving of your name calling and self righteous energy if balling out 8yr old kids is your bag.

Why should she?

Not super sweet at all

The attitude of some in this thread is truly irritating. The kid needs to be taught not to do this. It’s not ‘sweet’, it’s taking something that doesn’t belong to you and making someone else’s life less cheerful in the process.

That really isn't "super sweet". Any child old enough to be out on their own should know that picking flowers from someone else's garden is stealing.

What a ridiculous comment

The vitriol against a little girl on this thread is astonishing. I'd have bought a £1 bunch from the supermarket and given them to the family politely requesting they don't take from the garden but enjoy those instead....point made and no one is on a rampage.

I'd say that the annoyance is exacerbated by the fact that the 8 yr old took every single daffodil from the OP's garden in spite of the fact that there are daffodils in her mother's own garden.

I agree. @Pineapplecolada1 your son sounds like a good 'un 🙂.

Because giving the little girl some bulbs to grow, teaches generosity, neighbourliness and the pleasure of gardening in one low-cost gesture. And because when adults can understand children's mistakes and guide them, life gets better.

So you would reward an 8yo who has stripped your garden, by buying them some more daffs apart from from the ones they pinched?
Then go home, and look out your lounge window at your front garden that has no flowers
Yeah... ok

See, this makes me so furious. All OP asks is that she is allowed to enjoy the garden she puts work into, and there are people in this thread who think she should forego even that lest a child’s fleeting desires be disappointed. My lovely partner puts so much love and dedication into our garden and would be heartbroken to find it decimated like this. Just the thought of it makes me so sad. I can’t think of another situation where tearing up someone’s hard work would be met with such a blasé attitude.

The child's own garden is full of daffodils. Presumably her own parents know the pleasure of gardening.

Even wild flowers aren’t ours to take, let alone out of someone’s garden.
while the sentiment was sweet, I imagine the mum will be mortified when she realizes her child has nicked them from a garden.

Hopefully not in someone else's garden? On the verge side maybe. In someone else's garden shows no limits set by parents.

An 8 year old little girl wants flowers - yes, I'm happy to go the huge expense of £1 whilst also talking to the parent to ask that she doesn't take from the garden again. I'd rather resolve and keep relations, as annoying as it would be to not have them for a season I couldn't be bothered to get that worked up over it thinking a child should be punished over something which probably comes from a place of innocence. You sound a joy.

Lordy! All this hullabaloo over some cheapo daffodils, honestly, I hate them, but kids should know that whilst picking one is forgivable - cleaning an entire front garden out is clearly the work of a monster. Thin line though, I’ve not seen how many OP planted, maybe it was only a handful and therefore proportionally unacceptable. I don’t mind kids picking flowers from my gardens, but I grow lots, so have more to lose.

More useful would be an explanation that the girl should only have picked the flowers in her own garden.

Exactly! She shouldn’t be trespassing and they’re not hers to pick! This isn’t cute just annoying!

Well, there must have been some limits, because she somehow knew not to take any of the daffodils growing in her own garden. Apparently that would be wrong, whereas it's fine to take all of the daffodils in a neighbour's garden! 🙄

Very much so, understandably annoyed but maybe they were to be a surprise, 8 is young, and I think deserves a one time pass to not have so much hate on her on the understanding it doesn't happen again.

Yes, I’m afraid I don’t buy this idea that she didn’t know. If she had no notion it was wrong, she’d have picked the ones in her own garden.