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 😕

And they will continue to do stupid things unless someone stops them

Level headed perspective??

You've accused pps of thinking the child needs 'locking up and an Asbo', called OP disgusting and pathetic, are now accusing people of being 'prepared to go to war' over this, and have thrown some pretty far-fetched sarcasm into the mix for good measure.

This thread seems to have really got under your skin for some reason. You're entitled to your opinion obviously, but the absurd hyperbole isn't exactly helping your case.

And again I say that if a child is not old enough to know not to take things which do not belong to them, then they shouldn't be out alone.

👆How many times does this need repeating! To misquote the bible there are none so deaf as those who wont hear.

They shouldn't be picking them from public spaces either.

@Wishingplenty and another thing - how is this ever likely to become a 'more harmonious world' if kids aren't ever taught right from wrong and never have their behaviour corrected?

Go pick theirs

Funny how she didn't unthinkingly pick her MOTHER's daffodils, did she now?

Exactly. Where was the supervision, if she's too dimwitted to understand the concept of private property?

Does she steal things from her teachers, schoolmates, clubs, shops?

You need to speak to the parents as this is a developing behaviour in a child. The behaviour will escalate and she needs to know that what she did was wrong and unacceptable. Children need boundaries and theft needs to have repercussions. Speak to neighbourhood policing if you don't want to deal with the parents, they'll have a word. Helping children to understand what they did wrong is the best thing that can stop any future behaviour and keep them out of trouble.

Put up CCTV up which might stop this. Nice sign too…smile, you are on camera.

I have a very unusual flower bush in my front garden, and every summer it is quite the feature. So much so people stop to take pictures and selfies. This has been happening for years. It has now just occurred to me to be aghast at this. This is mainly adults as well. I think this year I must remember to be positively enraged!

Also yes, I do remember an odd flower going astray. But I did remember just to carry on with my life.

But if all the flowers had been taken, you would have felt a bit upset, no?

Not the point as it will probably happen again next year and the year after etc

Possibly if you look out one morning and it's gone (like the daffodils) you would be enraged, and rightly so.

What a rude little fucker. Do you know their parents ? I would go have a serious chat with them to make sure it does not happen again.

What kind of plant is it?

I think this thread is getting to me.

I still don’t quite understand why some people think it’s ok for an eight year old to pluck every single flower from someone else’s garden. Or even one flower for that matter. Or to pick flowers that are growing in the park.

My two year old knew not to do this… we went out a lot and talked about how pretty they were and how to pick them would mean that other people couldn’t enjoy them.He understood immediately. It’s not a difficult concept.

If everyone picked flowers from people’s gardens,there would be no flowers.

What would be the point of planting them?

Maybe we should all start doing it at Kew Gardens and see what happens.

I would send the CCTV footage to the parents and the police.

What if Gardening WAS your life?

Or some hobby that they vandalized?

You are to be pitied if you really don’t understand the difference between vandalism and a selfie.

Overreaction alert.

I wonder what the people who are saying it’s just a few flowers, they only cost £1 for a bunch in the supermarket, they’ll grow back, the child took them as a present for her mum, and that others are overreacting would say to slightly different circumstances. What if the OP had left her front door open for a few minutes while she went into her garage and the child came into the hall and took a pretty little dish that the OP treasured as a present for her mum? The child would have done exactly the same thing - she would have trespassed on private property and stolen someone else’s belongings. I suspect most of those people wouldn’t think it was ‘sweet’ in those circumstances, when the principle is exactly the same.

Do you really think there police would be interested?
The mum has already offered up an apology. She might even have read this thread and not really wanted to speak with the Op.