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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 288792" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Can I ask what you did about her forging checks on your account? </p><p></p><p>I hope you did more to her than simply getting her her own account. Bipolar or not, it is simply wrong to allow that behavior.</p><p></p><p>Let me tell you a story.</p><p></p><p>Once there was this young boy who stole a check and wrote it. He was ten. No one would take it of course because it was obvious a ten year old wrote it and they called the mother to alert her what he had done. Mom talked to him and gave him a punishment. Fast forward a few years. He became a teen and he learned what a debit card was. He started stealing the moms debit card and making small purchases and taking small amounts of cash out of the ATM. Mom ranted and raved but she never followed through on her "threats" to have him charged. She made him pay her back but that was no big deal to him. It made the whole thing just seem like a loan. Then he started forging checks for small amounts. Now the mom got really mad. She went to the bank and almost took out a forged document paper with the boy in tow...but she changed her mind at the last minute because he was now 16 and it would be a felony and she really didnt want to put a felony on his record at that age. It would have been an adult charge.</p><p></p><p>Well...let me tell you how this story ended. The mom is me. I got my disability settlement in July of 2007. My son stole my checkbooks which were hidden in a locked box while I was out of town and wrote forged checks for $1500 on my account. I found out when I got home from out of town. He was 21 at this point. I was absolutely livid. I had given him so many chances and had told him so many times what could happen to him. No more chances. </p><p></p><p>I had my son charged with 3...yes 3..counts of felony forged checks. I had to be in court and watch my son be found guilty on all 3 charges. Now he has those on his record. He is on probation now. He could have gone to jail for a substantial amount of time but he got off light with some active time, home ankle monitoring and probation. </p><p></p><p>You need to nip your daughters behaviors now while she is underage or this will continue into her adult life and you will come to the point where you simply have to say enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 288792, member: 1514"] Can I ask what you did about her forging checks on your account? I hope you did more to her than simply getting her her own account. Bipolar or not, it is simply wrong to allow that behavior. Let me tell you a story. Once there was this young boy who stole a check and wrote it. He was ten. No one would take it of course because it was obvious a ten year old wrote it and they called the mother to alert her what he had done. Mom talked to him and gave him a punishment. Fast forward a few years. He became a teen and he learned what a debit card was. He started stealing the moms debit card and making small purchases and taking small amounts of cash out of the ATM. Mom ranted and raved but she never followed through on her "threats" to have him charged. She made him pay her back but that was no big deal to him. It made the whole thing just seem like a loan. Then he started forging checks for small amounts. Now the mom got really mad. She went to the bank and almost took out a forged document paper with the boy in tow...but she changed her mind at the last minute because he was now 16 and it would be a felony and she really didnt want to put a felony on his record at that age. It would have been an adult charge. Well...let me tell you how this story ended. The mom is me. I got my disability settlement in July of 2007. My son stole my checkbooks which were hidden in a locked box while I was out of town and wrote forged checks for $1500 on my account. I found out when I got home from out of town. He was 21 at this point. I was absolutely livid. I had given him so many chances and had told him so many times what could happen to him. No more chances. I had my son charged with 3...yes 3..counts of felony forged checks. I had to be in court and watch my son be found guilty on all 3 charges. Now he has those on his record. He is on probation now. He could have gone to jail for a substantial amount of time but he got off light with some active time, home ankle monitoring and probation. You need to nip your daughters behaviors now while she is underage or this will continue into her adult life and you will come to the point where you simply have to say enough. [/QUOTE]
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