Woman Says She Demands Sister Return Daughter’s Dolls After Her Kids Took Them

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

The mother tells Reddit customers in a submit — below the username erika_padaukiski — that following final yr’s Christmas unboxing she blocked her sister after she referred to as her a “horrible person.”

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 just genuinely enjoys playing with them,” the mother writes, explaining her 11-year-old daughter’s obsession with Cry Baby and Baby Alive dolls. 

“My daughter was really excited about the dolls she received,” the mother tells Reddit customers. “But her younger cousins weren’t happy about it and tried to take them from her.”

Instead of the sister telling her youngsters to cease pestering their cousin, “she insisted her niece was, ’too outdated’  for dolls and that her youngsters deserved them extra,” the mother writes of the argument along with her sister.

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

However, 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 observed immediately that her cousins had taken them, the mother writes. “She was upset,” the mother continued.

“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,” 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.

“When I arrived, I demanded that she tell me where the dolls were, or I would report it as theft,” the mother writes. “After some back-and-forth, I got the dolls back, went home, and gave them to my daughter. My sister was calling me a horrible person, and I ended up blocking her.”

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

“Also what sort of Grinch thinks 11 is simply too outdated for dolls???”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