I have to put on my BM hat for this one bc it has nothing to do with my step kids. Last night or early this morning my DD7's scooter got stolen either off of our front porch or out of our front yard. As a parent I feel bad for my DD bc she loves her scooter and rides it daily. It sucks to have your property stolen and it sucks to know that someone was creeping around your home in the middle of the night looking for something to take. My DD is very tall so it wasn't a cheap little kid scooter, it was a $75 one meant for teens and adults. I won't be able to replace it until Christmas.

This morning I called my DH to ask him by any chance did he move her scooter somewhere when he left for work this morning. He said no and I told him that I figured he hadn't and that her scooter must have gotten stolen. His immediate reaction was "well that's what she gets for leaving it out." My problem with that is that I've never told her she has to put it in the garage. She has parked her scooter on the front porch everyday since she got it. I told DH "well that's my fault bc I am the one who allows her to leave her scooter on the porch." His response was that he has seen it a few times laying in the yard and she must have left it in the yard last night bc it's a lot more likely that someone would snatch it out of our yard then to come steal it off our porch.

I agree that it's a lot riskier to take something off a porch but my DD has left her scooter in the yard a few times and on the porch hundreds of times. She said she left it on the porch--why not just give her the benefit of the doubt and have an ounce of sympathy for a kid whose prized possession got stolen? He doesn't have to actually care but he could at least just politely say that sucks or sorry to hear that.