Girl Says She Calls for Sister Return Daughter’s Dolls After Her Youngsters Took Them

One mother assumed full momma-bear mode to guard her daughter’s Christmas reward.

The mother tells Reddit customers in a publish — beneath the username erika_padaukiski — that following final 12 months’s Christmas unboxing she blocked her sister after she referred to as her a “horrible individual.”

The mother says she invited her sister and her youngsters over to spend Christmas and open presents collectively, since her sister’s husband was out of city. On Christmas morning, the daughter was thrilled after opening the brand new dolls she was gifted.

“She’s not an age regressor, she simply genuinely enjoys taking part in with them,” the mother writes, explaining her 11-year-old daughter’s obsession with Cry Child and Child Alive dolls. 

“My daughter was actually excited in regards to the dolls she obtained,” the mother tells Reddit customers. “However her youthful cousins weren’t comfortable about it and tried to take them from her.”

As an alternative of the sister telling her kids to cease pestering their cousin, “she insisted her niece was, ’too previous’  for dolls and that her youngsters deserved them extra,” the mother writes of the argument together with her sister.

Defending her daughter, the mother says she hid the dolls away in her daughter’s room, “to maintain them secure” from the cousins.

Nevertheless, that night time the daughter’s cousins snuck into her room whereas everybody was sleeping and stole her new dolls. When the daughter awoke the following morning with out her dolls, she seen immediately that her cousins had taken them, the mother writes. “She was upset,” the mother continued.

“I referred to as my sister, and he or she once more stated my daughter was “too previous” for them and that her youngsters had a greater proper to the dolls,” the mother advised Reddit customers.

The mother advised her daughter to remain at house whereas she went to her sister’s home to confront her.

“Once I arrived, I demanded that she inform me the place the dolls have been, or I might report it as theft,” the mother writes. “After some back-and-forth, I acquired the dolls again, went house, and gave them to my daughter. My sister was calling me a horrible individual, and I ended up blocking her.”

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Within the feedback, Reddit customers rallied across the mom’s actions. One consumer wrote, “The sister inspired it. So, it’s principally an grownup stealing from a toddler. The household is setting the bar actual low on this case.”

“Additionally what sort of Grinch thinks 11 is simply too previous for dolls???” wrote one other consumer.