We have two Nintendo DS’s. One of our DS’s went missing a few months ago and after months of searching for it we came to the conclusion it must have been stolen. We didn’t want to think that way but gosh we had looked everywhere and found nothing.
Today, my son was playing with the other DS and when some of his friends came over to play, he put it up to play with them. After the boys were gone, my son went to get his DS and it was gone. We looked and looked for it and all the while I’m trying to keep the feeling of dread (that it was stolen) away. We finally decided that it must have been stolen and I was going to talk to the parents.
Before I left my husband prayed for the situation. It wasn’t easy for me to go talk to the parents. I didn’t want the parents to think I was accusing their child of stealing. Instead, I wanted them to know what had happened and if they heard anything to let me know.
One set of parents was at church so I walked down to the other kid’s parents house. (The parent I had just met today. Remember that. I had just met her today.)
I explained to her what had happened and was pretty positive her son had nothing to do with it but was talking to all the parents anyway. She was nice and understanding and said she would talk to her son to see if he knew anything.
Cut to the part where we are getting the kids ready for bed. I’ve read the Bible, we’ve prayed, and I look up and see…one of the DS’s almost hidden in a pile of books on the bookcase. NO WAY! Yes way! It was the DS we thought had been stolen earlier.
Guess what I got to do? I got to call the mom I had just met today and tell her the DS was here all along. It was put up in the wrong place. That was very embarrassing and if it wouldn’t have been the right thing to do I don’t think I would have made the phone call. I would have left things the way they were.
Then guess what happened? Yep! We found the other DS, the one that had been missing for quite a few months. It was stuck behind the bookcase!
Thankfully we found both DS’s although I don’t like how we thought they were stolen. I can honestly say that we didn’t jump to conclusions. We did look for months for the first DS and when we couldn’t find it the only other reason we could come up with was someone must have taken it. We have kids coming in and out all the time and we don’t know the character of any of them. (We are still fairly new to the neighborhood.)
Have you had any moments where you as the parent was wrong and had to correct the situation because it was the right thing to do?
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