'She stole from your daughter': Aunt unilaterally decides her 11-year-old niece is 'too old for dolls,' so she takes her toy collection for her own kids

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 18, 2024 9:00 AM EST

You're never too old to have an imagination. As kids, we have fun playing with toys, action figures, dolls, and all sorts of childlike wonders, but as you get older, you grow out of this imaginative state. Whether it's because of outside pressures–like mean adults or kids at school making fun of you–kids tend to stop playing with such the same kind of whimsy by the time they reach their tweenage years. So if your child is aging and still maintaining their childlike wonders, they're a dime in a dozen.

So when this woman's sister decided that an 11-year-old was 'too old' to play with dolls, Mom was furious. Not only was she stealing her childhood, but she actually went as far as stealing her actual toys. Keep scrolling to read the family drama that unfolded when this woman stole her niece's dolls after unilaterally deeming her unfit to keep them by gifting them to her younger children instead. 

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    AITA for demanding my sister return my daughter's dolls after her kids took them? My (33F) 11-year-old daughter is really into dolls, specifically Cry Baby and Baby Alive dolls. She's
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    not an age regressor, she just genuinely enjoys playing with them. Last Christmas, my sister (38F) and her kids came over for a sleepover to open some presents with us since their dad was out of town. My daughter was really excited about
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    the dolls she received, but her younger cousins weren't happy about it and tried to take them from her. Instead of telling them to stop, my sister told me that my daughter was "too old" for dolls and that her kids deserved them more.
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    refused to give the dolls away and put them in my daughter's room to keep them safe. That night, while my daughter was asleep, her cousins snuck into her room and took the dolls. When
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    my daughter woke up and noticed they were missing, she was upset. I called my sister, and she again said my daughter was "too old" for them and that her kids had a better right to the dolls.
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    I told my daughter to stay at home, and I left to go to my sister's house by myself. When I arrived, I demanded that she tell me where the dolls were, or I would report it as theft. After some back-and-forth, I got the dolls back, went home, and gave
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    them to my daughter. My sister was calling me a horrible person, and I ended up blocking her. So, AITA for going this far to get my daughter's dolls back?
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    ObjectiveLanky6146 Nta they belong to your daughter. It would be no different if an adult stole something. She stole from your daughter
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    Two_is_a_crowd Right! OP's sister is nothing more than an entitled thief and she's teaching her children that it's okay to steal.
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    No-Function223 Nta. Are 11 year olds not allowed to play with dolls anymore? That's all we did when I was that age.. that & ride bikes.
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    Apprehensive-Log8333 I was still playing with dolls at age 13. I stopped for a while but now I'm a play therapist and I play with dolls at work every day. I get paid to play with dolls, actually
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    kitty.yyteen You're definitely not the ah le. Your sister had no right to take your daughter's dolls, especially after you told her not to. It's your daughter's stuff, and no one should be messing with that. You did what you had to do to protect her things.
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    AlwaysHelpful22 What kind of person steals from children? - a filthy AH! Blazeduskglade21 Same question, I'm asking myself, The sister encouraged it, A real piece of trash. What is she trying to teacher her kids?
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    calacmack Your sister can buy dolls for her kids she doesn't need to steal them, especially from your daughter. She's an awful aunt. NTA.
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