Parenting Rule #1: Don't Let Your Daughter Near Your Wallet

Parenting Rule #1: Don’t Let Your Daughter Near Your Wallet

Posted on 25. Jun, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein in Blog

Wow, that statement works on multiple levels.

Last Friday my 2-year old somehow got a hold of my wallet-purse and decided to reorganize my credit cards and business cards. In the process, she somehow misplaced my main personal credit card, and my personal check card. She only had it for a few minutes, right next to me on the sofa, so you would think I would be able to find the cards.

No.

I looked in the sofa cushions, moved the sofa and coffee table, and in her toy box. The cleaning people even cleaned this room today, and did not find them.

Yes, I called to get new cards … but it takes a week! And, I realized that all my other personal credit cards are packed away (because I follow the rule of only one credit card at a time, which is a good rule, except for this problem), and I don’t feel like digging them out. Today I went to Fed Ex, and had to write a check to send a package. A check! It’s been 10 years since I have paid for something at a store with a check!

Perhaps she tucked the cards away and is secretly buying toys and Dora movies? Or she is bribing kids at preschool? Buying stuff off the internet?

What will it be like when she is a teenager?!