Hi all. I'm a mum of 4 children, my eldest is 9 nearly 10, he knows right from wrong and is a lovely boy usually, I need some advice about something that happend yesterday. I was in the shower, he asked "mum can I have this game on xbox it's £25.00'' I said not today because I only have money for food until next payday. My card details are on the xbox as when I do agree to buy him something I can just buy it then without typing my details in everytime, well 5 minutes after he asked he came to me and said "mum the game just said its installing and I don't know how" I said what you mean? He said it's bought itself when he was on a trailer for the game. It apparently popped up saying he had purchased it without him buying it. I checked my bank and its definitely come out of my bank. Obviously I was really sad and mad because I only had money left for food and I said no for now, I was mad and said he had broken my trust now and I took his xbox from him (I didn't know what other punishment I could do/day at that time) well, since it happend he's been admimant that he has not done it and the game did buy itself. Obviously its very hard to believe that it bought itself, when usually you have to press buy it and then confirm the purchase. He's been crying all morning to me saying he wants his xbox back because he genuinely hasn't done it. Just to confirm none of my other children have an xbox, so it wasn't them and it happend within 5 minutes of him asking me if he could buy it, I hate seeing him so upset and usually I aren't a strict mum I make sure they know wrong from right but I usually hate taking things of them unless they do something bad.
Please can I have some advice, has anything like this happend to you before? Did I do the right thing taking his xbox? Am I being too harsh by not believing that it bought itself? I feel really sad knowing he's sad. But so am I knowing my money got took when I told him no 😔😢