to the thief at douglas village shopping center

Horrible behaviour but if you are to take anything positive from it, it's a valuable, if unfortunate life lesson for a 9 year old to learn.

Don’t know why you invented the piece about the OP not noticing it was missing?

9 year olds need to learn how to handle money and belongings, good to see OP wasn’t infantilising their child like many parents do. It is a pity… and I remember my own daughter at a similar age having her bike robbed in Cork.

Welcome Ireland unfortunately. If it’s not nailed down, some people seem to think it’s free, or you deserve to be robbed.

Security contacted them as their details were inside the bag.

Had they noticed the bag gone before they got home I'd imagine they would have left their details with security and there would be no need to point out the fact that the details were in the bag.

Had they noticed it was missing I'm sure they would have retraced their steps looking for the bag....a fact I'm sure the OP would have included to illustrate the horror of the situation.

I'm not even sure what the point of this thread is or what the OP expects to gain from it.

End of the day it's the parents responsibility to keep an eye on their children's belongings.

Yeah it's great to teach them independence but you still need to monitor the situation.

The child lost the bag, is down 50quid. Could it have been prevented? Probably.

OP states they don't know where the child left the bag.

Do you'd be asking security to go through footage from the time they entered ....each shop potentially has its own cctv so if you did manage to track the child and the bag going into the shop but coming out of the shop you'd need to get that shop to go through their CCTV......it ain't going to happen for 50 quid.

We also don't know if the money was Maliciously stolen. If kids are bored they'll empty their bag, refill the bag empty the bag etc. the child herself could easily have removed the money and left down outside the bag. ....the bag may have been left open , fell on the floor, money fell out.....who knows. The OP doesn't know where it was mislaid.

Bottom line look after your own belongings.

Have any of you considered the the OP is pissed, may just want to vent and not give out to the child.

Aha. I assume your logic extends to not mentioning colours ever either in case someone has a child with colour blindness or vision impairment.

Or music in case of deafness.

Should I remove the piece about my 9 year old having a bike in case her sibling in a wheelchair spots it?

Or is it only your particular family situation I should censor myself on in case you feel sad for a moment.

What a weird self-absorbed comment.

Seems far more likely it’s one of the posters above you, who all believe in Finders Keepers.

You forgot ...

Security guard

This thread has taken quite the turn!

The appropriate response would be to acknowledge that it didn’t even occur to you that there might be a very good reason why the little girl is forgetful, thereby making your best-parent-of-1985 response completely unhelpful and out of order. But instead you doubled down. Classy.