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I won't have to worry about this for awhile because I'm a brand new mom. But when I think back to how I was, it terrifies me to think my kids will do the same! I used to root throughoys or book my parents' closet to find birthday or Christmas presents, watch the few R-rated movies that were in the house while I was home alone, snoop through my older sister's room to find out what her private life was like, etc. I was really awful about things like that and I'm ashamed now! I don't think my mom ever had a clue, either, since I was the quiet, scholarly, obedient type of kid. How about you all? Do you catch your kids snooping, or do you even worry about it?
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My kids are 9 and 12. Dh and I are pretty transparent...there is nothing in this house that they could snoop into that I would be ashamed of or wouldn't want them to see. If I did have something like that, I'd make sure I locked it up.
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No they don't do that yet.They still believe in santa but once they don't I think the snopping will begin
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We haven't had trouble with snooping yet. It is the stuff I accidently leave out that has caused trouble. Once DD tried to take a sip from the bottle of personal lubricant I left on the nightstand. I think she thought it was a little bottle of water.
We are careful of leaving very dangerous items out. For instance, all the guns are under lock and key. If we ever leave DD home alone - she's 5 so that won't happen for a while - we'll change the locks and change the location of the hidden key just so she won't have access.
Other than that, if she can find ANYTHING in hubby's clutter, she's welcome to it. We might end up having to ask her where some things are located.
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I have an older son who I am pretty sure has snooped at Xmas a time or two....but I have never thought anything major and there's nothing "bad" really for him too find.
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Not an issue as of yet, hoping it stays that way for a long time to come.
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My son was a snooper and not very careful about covering his tracks. Once he found my "stash" he must have been in the middle of the discovery because I found them dumped on the floor. I put them away went to his room and suggested he stay out of my room unless he wanted me to start snooping in his. All he said was "OK" I never saw any evidence that he snooped again.
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I don't have this problem yet & I hope I don't. I don't remember being a snooper when I was a kid-I think once for Christmas presents & I got caught & mom threatened that she would take them back to the store.
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I snooped when I was little, too, but aside of my father's magazines there wasn't much excitement. That it until I was a teenager and out for school breaks, and my friends and I were really interested in the liquor buried at the very, very top and back of the pantry.
I know my kids have snooped through our things, but we are pretty boring people when you look at it that way. When my oldest was younger, he snooped around and found a stash of old $2 bills that I had hung onto, so he decided to take them and use them for ice cream at school. So then we not only had the issue of snooping, but also stealing that we had to address. This is making me all of a sudden remember seeing a pair of earrings in my mom's jewelry box when I was a teen and deciding they'd look much better on me, grab them, wear them, lose one of them, and seeing her angry face.
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I was a snoop, probably because I was bored a lot, not that I should have been and it was not any excuse.
Anything we don't want ds to see we lock up, since I know how I was