Dear Queenie,
When our son and his family visited us we noticed that his older son, our grandson, always had a lot of money to spend on anything he wanted. After they left we found that cash was missing from our spare cash envelope, and some other things besides cash were missing too.
We called our son to tell him what we had found missing and he offered to write us a check, so he seems to take it for granted that the boy is taking – stealing! –these things. I told him the missing money was not so much the problem as the fact that his son is stealing things, and now our son isn’t speaking to us.
Queenie, what more can I do?—Worried grandfather
Dear Grandfather,
There is not anything more you can do; that is up to your grandson’s parents, and they do not seem to be too much concerned about his thievery, which does not speak well for their parenting skills or for their son’s future.
However, when they visit you again, if you choose to let them do so without having done anything about their son’s bad habit, be sure to keep everything valuable locked safely away.
