Let’s review a few lessons learned that we’ve learned around here so far this week, shall we?
First off, Addie learned that we never, ever take anything from a store without paying for it first.
Yes, Mom and Dad, I too have now felt the horror in realizing that your child has “sticky fingers” and the embarrassment of having to march them back into the store to announce our neglect in paying for an item.
Ad has a tendency to seek out stuffed cats and dogs when we are in a store, and if there is one in the store, she will find it. So while we were at the grocery store this evening she had found, and was carrying, this little puppy around. She often will ask if we can take the found object home, but I tell her the toy has to stay in the store. After an “Ok, Mama,” - she will leave it behind, and that usually is the end of it.
Tonight we were loading the groceries into the car and she looks up at me and so innocently says, “This puppy is so cute, isn’t it Mama?” And before it could even register that it was not a puppy that had traveled to the store with us, Emma yelled, “OOOHHH! Addie! You can’t take that puppy home! Mama didn’t pay for it!”
So we did the “march of shame” back into the store and I told Addie that she had to go back up to the manager and explain that she took the puppy without paying for it and that she was sorry.
I didn’t hear exactly what she said to the manager because he was leaning down to hear her and her back was to me, but I did hear her say “Sowry.” And the manager was very nice and said, “Let’s just make sure we don’t ever take anything out of the store until we have paid for it, ok?”
Then the three of us discussed the situation the entire way home, with Emma leading the discussion in typical big sister fashion - “Addie, you have to buy stuff so that the man at the store has money so he can buy food for his wife and kids too, right Mom?”
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