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 😕

Why didn't the 8-year-old pick the daffodils that were in her garden then. ??

I would be seriously pissed off if an eight-year-old came into my garden and picked all the flowers!

Quite a few years ago I was doing my usual walk and there was a child older than eight, don't know the age maybe 10, and she was literally in the graveyard going from gravestone to gravestone picking all the flowers that had been planted in memory of loved ones! I called out to her to stop.

It really is not super sweet to do this and anyone saying how lovely, it's for mother's Day, well, the daffodils will be dead by then

Did you miss that the OP says the child had daffodils growing in her own garden already? Should the OP also buy the child's family a doormat, glue it to her own back and lie down at their front door?

Definitely have a word with the parents. She’s clearly not sensible enough to be out alone.

Firstly she’s going onto other property when she shouldn’t then she’s stealing.

Hardly a good start to freedom.

Haha, good joke! This post is a joke, right?

It's really weird that even as an adult you seem to think you were the wronged party there.

Can you go round and explain to mum and child that it’s private property, and technically trespassing and theft. And now you have no daffodils which is hardly fair

tell her she needs to knock on the door next time so to start you know she’s there and don’t call the police when your ring doorbell goes, and second you can show her which flowers to take, if any, so as not to damage the plants.

one or two fair enough, but every single one? Kid needs to learn to share.

She needs to learn not to take other people’s property. She’s not entitled to a share of OP’s flowers.

Go and pick theirs in return? See how they like it?

It’s bizarre how many posters have taken up the idea that this kid was picking them for her mum, which makes it “sweet”. One person suggesting this as an reason doesn’t make it a fact!
I’d be more inclined to think charitably I if the kid hasn’t avoided picking the flowers in their own garden! Her parents probably told her not to touch those so she moved on to the next nearest…

I was at a National Trust property on the edge if a city the other day. The long driveway up to the property is lined with verges full of daffodils. Our guide said "they'll all disappear next week as it's Mother's day"
Hopefully they'll make lots of Mothers happy - and at least they're not nicking flowers from the local graveyard!

The child is eight not two, that's old enough to know it's not ok to pick flowers from someone's front garden. I have DC of a similar age and they know not to. I have just started gardening and really name an effort last year, walking into my house and seeing the daffodils in my front garden also gives me a spark of joy and would be quite upset if some child came and picked them all.

Nothing has changed. I'm 70 and absolutely would not have been allowed to pick someone else's flowers. Also nobody has suggested those punishments the child just needs telling not to do it.

That puts a different slant on it.
The daffodils in the child’s own garden are untouched 😮
i would let the parent know.
The child might be unaware at 8 years old hmm, unless she had special needs she has done anything wrong but needs to be told not to do it again.
I would be upset too OP as the daffodils in my front garden are gorgeous this year.

Once upon a time not so long ago, this would have filled people with joy to see a child do this

I'm old I have never known a time when I would have been filled with joy to see a child going into someone else's garden and picking all the flowers. I presume my post about a 10yo picking all the flowers on the gravestones at our local church was joyful too?!

They'll be dead by Mothers' Day.

Exactly.

Stealing has never filled people's hearts with joy.

@Wishingplenty , the first words of your post are apt..
'Once upon a time...'
Because you are trying to weave a story here. Not at any time would stealing and vandalism by children be acceptable to anyone (apart from Fagin and Bill Sykes, in keeping with this fiction)
Ridiculous

That is shit. I am loving driving home from work at the moment and seeing all the splashes of yellow along the roadside.

If you know who it is, I would definitely knock on their door and let the parents know. You don't have to go in guns ablazing but you don't want a repeat on your tulips!

I did this as a kid, picked the neighbours whole bed of tulips from their front garden, put them in my toy pram and gave them to my mum as a present. I had sneaked round the front to do it.
I got sent straight to bed at about 4pm, my mum was absolutely livid. I was in trouble for a whole week. Was not the reaction I thought I would get. She went round to apologise and I am sure it was extremely embarressing for her and the neighbour was an alderly lady who I am sure they would have been her pride and joy
As an adult I would be very upset if someone did this. But it was a kid picking flowers, not worth getting upset over. It was unlikely malicious, just misjusdged.i would go round and speak to the parents. Hopefully they are decent people and will tell their child off.

This. Seeing my daffs, crocuses and tulips come up was one of my greatest pleasures. I'm disabled and my world is very small. Unfortunately I was moved into adapted housing last year, and my back garden is bereft of daffodils. I miss them SO much, they're my favourite flower, and I'm unable to plant them myself, so I would be bloody devastated if someone had picked mine in my old place.

People just go around living their privileged, able-bodied lives and don't comprehend how something that's "minor" to them is huge to others.

I have a child with SEN, just shy of 6. I would be very unhappy if I found out she had done this and I would absolutely want my neighbour to tell me if she did, so I could try and make it up to them in some way by offering new plants or something. That said, my child obviously doesn't go out roaming the streets unsupervised to do this due to her age and needs. I am not convinced it would even cross her mind to wander into a neighbours garden to damage property, I would never have enticed behaviour like that. Especially if, as you say, she had daffodils in her own garden to pick and left them untouched!

8 year olds should know better and they certainly should not be wandering into other peoples gardens. For safeguarding reasons also. I'd be addressing it with their parents!

What!!!!??? You would spend time and money to reward a child that has nicked flowers out of your garden!? What kind of a message does that send? If I do something wrong, I get presents? What a confusing message. A clear stern "You do not pick flowers from people's gardens," from the parents to the child would be more apt.

Yes. It's not just the OP that enjoys her daffodils, they are there for everyone else to enjoy too.

I’d go and pick theirs!

@Sminty2 so what if the kid wanted to do something sweet, you don’t pick other people’s flowers from their bloody garden