{"id":94,"date":"2008-07-18T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/94\/let-them-steal-your-kids-wallet-but-never-let-them-steal\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T19:42:34","slug":"let-them-steal-your-kids-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/94\/let-them-steal-your-kids-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Steal Your Kid&#8217;s Wallet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But NEVER Let Them Steal your Attitude!<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, on our last day of our family vacation to PEI<br \/>\nand New Brunswick, Canada, <strong>our credit and debit cards<br \/>\nwere stolen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not the most desired way to end a family vacation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what happened:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We decided to go swimming at the local swimming pool in St.<br \/>\nStephen, New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>In my husband&#8217;s haste to get our son ready to go swimming he<br \/>\ncompletely forgot that he had <strong>put his wallet in the pocket <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of his shorts which he had left in the change room.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a fabulous hour and a half of amazing swimming with<br \/>\nour two young children.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We just really enjoyed ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our little girl, 6 years, was able to swim all by herself in<br \/>\nthe deep end with no water wings!<br \/>\n<strong>It was incredible and she was so proud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our little boy, 4 years, was excitedly showing off how he<br \/>\ncould now look under the water with his eyes open!<br \/>\n<strong>He was thrilled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a gorgeous sunny day with enough cloud cover to not<br \/>\nget ourselves burned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We really enjoyed ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then it was time to get dressed and start our long journey<br \/>\nback home.<\/p>\n<p>While I was getting myself and our daughter dressed, I heard<br \/>\nmy husband call into our change room, <strong><em>&#8220;somebody stole our <\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>bank card!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was shocked that someone would do that. But other than<br \/>\nthat initial shock, I felt an incredible calm come over me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I knew that all would be right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What they did was awful,<\/strong> not only did they throw all<br \/>\nof my husband&#8217;s wallet cards all over the change room,<br \/>\n<strong>they also grabbed our 4 year old son&#8217;s underwear <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and threw that in one of the toilets!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We finished getting dressed, and then went to my aunt&#8217;s<br \/>\nstore and used her phone to cancel the bank card. By this<br \/>\ntime we also noticed that the credit card had been stolen as<br \/>\nwell, so we canceled that one too.<\/p>\n<p>Then we filed a report with the local police and then<br \/>\ncontinued on with our journey home.<\/p>\n<p>Now this event could have ruined our beautiful day, <strong>but<br \/>\nwe didn&#8217;t let it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had felt quite confident that they would not be able to<br \/>\naccess our bank card and we were able to cut off the cards<br \/>\nbefore any money had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>We knew all would be just fine. A replacement card was on<br \/>\nit&#8217;s way and we were safe once again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our son even learned a valuable lesson:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Never throw anyone&#8217;s underwear in the toilet! It&#8217;s not a<br \/>\nnice thing to do!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He learned about the rule that says, <strong>&#8220;Do unto others as<br \/>\nyou would do unto yourself.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I really don&#8217;t know if I would have been able to teach<br \/>\nthis lesson to him any better than this incident did!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So all in all, it wasn&#8217;t so bad and we still had a wonderful<br \/>\ntrip home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So my advice to all of you is:<\/strong> They can steal your<br \/>\nwallet, but they can never steal your attitude!<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That part&#8217;s up to you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s to your kids having an optimistic attitude<br \/>\nweek!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheers&#8230;Amanda van der Gulik&#8230;Excited Life Enthusiast!<br \/>\nFounder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.TeachingChildrenAboutMoney.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Teach your kid <strong>NEVER<\/strong> steal anyone else&#8217;s<br \/>\nwallet and never throw someone else&#8217;s <strong>underwear in the<br \/>\ntoilet!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createyourownmindmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;law of attraction&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> is always working so make<br \/>\nsure it works <strong>FOR<\/strong> your child\/ren, <strong>never AGAINST them!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.createyourownmindmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> to learn more ways to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.createyourownmindmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;law of attraction&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>work FOR your child!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But NEVER Let Them Steal your Attitude! Last Friday, on our last day of our family vacation to PEI and New Brunswick, Canada, our credit and debit cards were stolen. Not the most desired way to end a family vacation. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/94\/let-them-steal-your-kids-wallet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[813,1549,1550],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-of-attraction","tag-core-values","tag-law-of-attraction","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachingchildrenaboutmoney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}