Kids Loot Their Uncle’s Home in Retaliation When Uncle’s Kids Steal Their Toys, the Parents Get Involved When Uncle Notices All His Stuff is Missing

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 29, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Parenting is no walk in the park. One wrong comment, one slip of the tongue and a curse word comes out, next thing you know your kid is blabbing profanity during his daily ambulations to school. Albeit kids minds are incredibly impressionable, they're also malleable, and you can out teach them learned behaviors. It's important to teach your children moral and ethical lessons, or they could wind up doing something with more consequences than it's worth. 

This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this story, the original poster (OP) is a man who has young children. Their house has toys all around, and during one hosting of his family, his brother's kids take some toys home. He asks the brother nicely to return the toys, which is met with apathy and dodging, so OP decides to take matters into his own hands. I guess he doesn't mind teaching his children that malice is more important than family. 

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  • 01
    r/AITAH 15 hr. ago Some_Addition_9752 AITAH for letting my kids loot my brother's house to prove my point.
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    My brother and his family came for a visit last month. My kids and I play with lego and we have fun leaving little dioramas around my house. Just silly stuff like a fight between Ironman and Darth Vader on the loot llama. It's just our way of leaving Easter eggs around the house.
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    My nephew really liked them and decided to take a few home. When we noticed they were missing I asked my brother to bring them back. He said that it was just kids being kids and that he would them back the next time we saw each other.
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  • 04
    I saw him for coffee and I reminded him beforehand that I wanted all our stuff back. He "forgot" to bring the "toys". Okay. Game on.
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  • 05
    We went over to his place for a BBQ. I told my kids that unless all our stuff was returned to us when we got there literally anything in the house was fair game. Like the godless barbarians they are they went to town. When we left | don't think there were any remotes, small electronics, or beer mugs left at his house. I actually
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    had to sneak the dog back into the house before we left. I started getting calls on our way home. I ignored them.
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    When I got home I returned his calls. He said a bunch of stuff was missing from his house. I said I would check with the kids. He said that I well knew what happened and that he wanted his back. I said I would box it up and return it the next time we saw eack other. As long as we got our lego back.
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    He was at my house with my Lego later that evening. He had even accidentally included stuff that wasn't ours. I returned it and his stuff. I told him that this is how we would be dealing with his kid in the future.
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    He is ped off that he had to make a special trip to return my stuff. My parents think that there is a huge difference between an eight year old taking Lego minifigures and a couple of teenagers pillaging their uncle's house. AITAH?
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    ShotBarracuda6 • 15h ago • "I actually had to sneak the dog back into the house before we left." I laughed for the first time since my horse recently died reading this. Nta
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    celticmusebooks 15h ago • So you were LITERALLY at his house and they didn't give the Legos his kid STOLE back to you? Unless your nephew is intellectually compromised in some way 8 years old is absolutely old enough to know that STEALING is wrong.
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    NTA this is a case of bigben7102 • 15h ago • for tat and you got your stuff back
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    SockMaster9273 • 15h ago NTA Wouldn't have to go that far if he just gave you your stuff back.
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    Whereswolf 15h ago • I love that they even got the dog *lol* An 8 yo know not to take toy/stuff from others. Well played
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    scaffnet 15h ago • That was awesome.
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    Mundane-Devi... • 15h ago • NTA Tell your parents the biggest difference here is that you immediately returned his things instead of trying to keep them until he decided it wasn't worth it anymore. Yeah the kid shouldn't take stuff but your
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    brothers response is the biggest issue.
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    Bumpy110011 • 15h ago "Like the godless barbarians they are they went to town." Poet.
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    Ratchet_gurl24 • 15h ago • An 8 year old should already be taught not to take things that aren't his. However your brother has absolutely no excuse as to keep your things that his son took. It was amazing how quickly he rectified his son's theft and
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    his compliance, when it affected him directly. Well done
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    Decent-Histori... • 15h ago • Your brother knew you guys were coming over for a BBQ - so he could have had your belongings boxed up and handed to you to put in the car when you showed up. Instead, he just didn't do anything and had to make a special trip.
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    Sounds like you mentioned it to him a few times, and he just brushed it off. Maybe he should actually return things that don't belong to him. NTA
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