Is It Stealing From Your Kid?
By vjenkins86
@vjenkins86 (1478)
United States
May 10, 2010 10:22pm CST
Here's the plot: You throw your child a birthday party. Everyone comes and brings lots of gifts. The child opens the presents and everyone realizes that they your kid received the same gift- such as a doll or video game- twice (or even three times). Slightly embarrassed but prepared, one of the adults who bought the repeated present gives you a gift receipt. Now you go to the store to return the present and realize that there is something else in that store that YOU would want. Would you use the store credit you received to buy something for yourself or would you buy something else for your kid?
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8 responses
@Youreyes4Today (2356)
• United States
11 May 10
That is to simple to answer. The original gift was for my child, I would not take away from that. In fact my child would be with me so that she/he could help choose what to get to replace the duplicate gift. Maybe get something to go with what they received. I would not use it any other way, it wouldn't be showing my child what the right thing would be to do.
@vjenkins86 (1478)
• United States
11 May 10
Very good point. It would be sending your child the wrong message if you used the money/store credit of his gift for your own personal want. Thank you for your response.
@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
11 May 10
I would let my kid go to the store and pick out something they wanted for the same price. I wouldn't take their gift away just because they already have it. That's cruel. What if they did that to you i'm sure you or whoever else would feel the same way the kid does. Kids should be treated with respect the same as we want to be.
@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
11 May 10
I would buy my kid something else or bring my son with me to pick something out. He's intitled to it since it was his gift in the first place. Once in awhile when I'm broke and want to buy a coffee I will borrow $2.00 from him but pay him back on paydays and I feel guilty about even doing that.
Take care
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
11 May 10
Buying something for yourself is stealing just like using a gift card or cash that was sent to your child to buy something for yourself is stealing. I have some family members on my exhusband's side who used to routinely do this and I thought it was horrible.
@redhotpogo (4398)
• United States
11 May 10
Get the gift for you kid. That would be just wrong, to trade in your kid's gift to get something for yourself. To me that would be like telling your kid there wasn't anything to eat, because you only had enough to get something from mcdonalds, but you really wanted this nice $30 t bone steak.
@evepin (721)
• Philippines
11 May 10
i will definitely NOT use the gift receipt for my own purpose. it's intended for my child, so whatever i buy, it should be for her. just like when her Grandma gives her money. either i put it in her piggy bank by letting her putting the money itself in, or i buy it for her things like clothes or toys or milk. anything for her, but not for me. i will feel guilty doing otherwise!
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
11 May 10
I could not do that to my child. Just couldn't. I would bring my child to the store to pick out something of equal value. If what he/she picked out was less than that value then I would put the certificate away for a later time. Anything less than that would be stealing from your child.
@lelin1123 (15594)
• Puerto Rico
11 May 10
That would be a horrible thing to do in my opinion. That is stealing from your own kid. I can't believe anyone would do such a thing to their child. I think the right thing to do is take your child to the store and have them pick out what they want that is worth the same amount of the previous gift. That would be like if you child received money in a card and you take the money to the store and buy something for yourself instead. Its a big no-no to me.