Ok, my difficult child daughter stole $40 from me the other day and I discovered it today. I have added my profile and you will notice she is BiPolar (BP), but also Learning Disability (LD) and has major executive function problems. I am thinking this was more an exec function issue because... that $40 was all the money I had, noone without exec function difficulties would take ALL the money and not realize they would get caught. I know it was her because she was with my sister and her cousin for the night and my sis dropped by today and in the course of our conversation she asked me how my daughter had $40 ,(2 20s) , I said she did/should not, but my sis said she showed it to her when she offered to pay for the movies last night. By the way my daughter lost the stolen 40 before I even found out, so i cant get it back.
So I ask my daughter casually if she saw my $40 bucks and she says no (go figure), I pressed her a bit without accusing and she says daddy gave it to me, (uh, we are out of state and she had no money the other day). I had my sis talk to her cause she is real laid back about it and she gets her to admit it. I have not addressed it yet, she is supposed to come tell me tomorrow. Suggestions????please?
I am pretty ticked but know harshness will backfire, n she is way to lazy to thinkshe work it off as a debt repay.
So I ask my daughter casually if she saw my $40 bucks and she says no (go figure), I pressed her a bit without accusing and she says daddy gave it to me, (uh, we are out of state and she had no money the other day). I had my sis talk to her cause she is real laid back about it and she gets her to admit it. I have not addressed it yet, she is supposed to come tell me tomorrow. Suggestions????please?
I am pretty ticked but know harshness will backfire, n she is way to lazy to thinkshe work it off as a debt repay.