What a six year old can do!!!

JD Seller

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My youngest son and his family ate Sunday supper with us tonight. When it became time for desert My DIL said that the younger boy could not have any desert. He loves deserts. I asked her why. She told me he was being punished for being bad this week.

The little fart ordered some kid movies from Amazon and PAID for them. Here is how he did it. The bedrooms are upstairs in their house. The kids are put to bed earlier in the evening. My DIL does a lot of her house work at night as she works during school hours. The youngest got up and went into my son/DIL bedroom. He got on their computer and ordered some kids movies he wanted.

They came Thursday in the Mail. My DIL did not think anything about it at first as the youngest birthday is next week and she though my son had ordered them. She asked my son about ordering them and he had not ordered them. My DIL went on line an found out when they had been ordered and how they where paid for. They had been charged to her credit card. It was a mystery how they got ordered and paid for.

The next morning my grand son got up and saw the movies on the kitchen counter. He let the cat out of the bag that he had ordered them. He is in TROUBLE!!!! LOL

Now the amazing part. You would think he just slipped her card out of her purse. NO!!! HE knows her credit card number and the security code on the back. He also remembers her Debit card number and pin too. We guess he picked them up from when the DIL uses them. He sits with her when she uses the computer. She buys a lot of their cloths and such on line. She actually saves a lot of money buying new or near new stuff for them to wear.

I have to stop and think of my Debit card pin number anymore. Here this little squirt can remember all of those numbers. LOL

I quizzed him after supper. He knows their address, phone numbers (home and cell) plus my home and cell numbers too) Not bad for anyone let alone a six year old.

Makes you kind of worried and proud at the same time.
 
Not surprising, a while back a university performed a study, they gave a new TV remote to a group of College Students and a group of six year olds and instructed them to do some basic task such as turn the TV on and go to a certain channel, THE SIX YEAR OLDS PERFORMED FASTER. My 6 yo granddaughter just left, she's the same with all the remotes I have for TV and Dish and DVD etc., we just let her figure it out lol The "digital" generation is something, just give them a keypad or a digital device and they will blow our doors off..

John T
 
At least they were kids movies. As he grows up there are going to be more serious things I'm sure. If Mom found about some of the things I got away with I would sure be in a lot of trouble. The little guy may have the ability to remember numbers. Stan
 
It's REALLY sad that the blame was placed on the kid, rather than on amazon for keeping the CC info on file.

They (supposedly) have an "opt out" feature to prevent this from happening, that I have gone through several times.

I'll bet if I logged in right now and tried to buy something "one step ordering"/CC info would pop up.

I think Grandpa should tell Mom to commute the kid's sentence, and give a talk to both of them about how the (evil) 'net works.

Git 'er done, JD!
 
Bob she does have Amazon set to not store her information. He put it all in. She had him do it to prove he could do it and he put all the required information right in. He is a sharp little fellow. He gets in trouble a lot of the time. LOL

He is the planner and the older brother goes along. My son will have his hands full when these two get to be teenagers. LOL MY sweet revenge.
 
I'm betting the young man knew what he was doing was wrong. If so he is now basking in his appropriate sentence from mom.
 
OH, LORD! He sounds like my son Noah, soon to be 15, who figured out how to light candles in the microwave while in the "terrible 2's"!

Sounds like his Mom better "secure" her credit cards!
 
Wilamayb: He must like a hot butt then. LOL He got a good one for his Dad. Plus not TV or computer for a week. HE is not a Happy Camper right now.
 
Seems to me the first thing they'd better do, after making the seriousness of the crime apparent, is to put a password he doesn't know on their computers and a second one for connecting to the net on too. They'd better remove the card numbers now! If a 6 year old can get into their account what do you think a determined east European hacker can do?

We learned our lesson with our first set of kids. You don't let them have the opportunity to do wrong. Our 2nd set doesn't have cell phones or any computer access unsupervised. Neighbors grandkids all have smart phones at 7-8 years old and they've already had porn problems. Thats insane and it's the parents fault for giving them the tools and opportunity.
 
I often see people in stores and at the ATM letting a little kid handle their card and push the numbers/buttons for them. I'm thinking to myself: "How dumb can they be?" Kids that age don't need to know those things. The parents are just setting themselves up for trouble later on.

We never let our kids do that; never let them handle a credit card and they knew nothing about out finances until they were adults.
 
LOl! My youngest son could pick any lock made at that age. Drove us nuts for a few years. Fortunately it seems to be a talent he lost as he grew up and moved on to other things.
 
There's no winning with you guys is there?

You complain complain complain about how the younger generations are not prepared to meet the challenges of the real world.

Then when a kid shows some aptitude towards that kind of thing, you want to shove a bag over his head, or you brag about how you kept bags over your kids heads until they were adults.

All the kid needs is direction on right and wrong.
 
After reading the replys below, I guess I'm going to take the oposite side here. I think the little guy should be commended for his fine efforts. How many other six year old's can do this? This kid is sharp! 'No reason here for his dad to have tanned his hide. AFter all, all he ordered was a couple kids movies! Now if he had bought some big ticket item....well that's a different story. Has this boy been told that he should not be doing this? I doubt it. He used his brain and did exactly what he'd seen his mom do before. I say give the kid credit for being resourceful. THEN.......warn him about what "could have happened". By the way JD, is this the same little guy that painted his mom's car?
 
Yes I would be proud of him also, but I'm not his parent and he needs to know what is acceptable and what is not. His parents need to keep track of their expenses for each month and can't let this kind of behavior continue. They're the ones that need to teach him this. All said in a nice voice...! 20 years from now everyone will be laughing about it.

That is great he knows cell and phone numbers and addresses as well. My son was in 4th grade and had a friend of his over one time. His friend didn't know his home phone or his home address. We were surprised.

My wife and I had a secret code word with the kids when they were in elementary school. Any one other than us that picked them up from school had to give the teacher the secret code word.
 
Randall YES he is the same one. He has a knack for getting into trouble. LOL I think his Dad will have "fun" when he is a teenager.
 
(quoted from post at 11:49:12 10/27/14) After reading the replys below, I guess I'm going to take the oposite side here. I think the little guy should be commended for his fine efforts. How many other six year old's can do this? This kid is sharp! 'No reason here for his dad to have tanned his hide. AFter all, all he ordered was a couple kids movies! Now if he had bought some big ticket item....well that's a different story. Has this boy been told that he should not be doing this? I doubt it. He used his brain and did exactly what he'd seen his mom do before. I say give the kid credit for being resourceful. THEN.......warn him about what "could have happened". By the way JD, is this the same little guy that painted his mom's car?


Reward him for doing something wrong? Great idea. "No one told me it was wrong." What a great excuse! Sounds like Clinton arguing what the defintion of "is" is.
 
(quoted from post at 11:46:09 10/27/14) There's no winning with you guys is there?

You complain complain complain about how the younger generations are not prepared to meet the challenges of the real world.

Then when a kid shows some aptitude towards that kind of thing, you want to shove a bag over his head, or you brag about how you kept bags over your kids heads until they were adults.

All the kid needs is direction on right and wrong.

I believe I put the blame on the parent, not the kid.
 
Bret, I did not say "reward him". I said "give him credit for being resourceful"......two totally different things. For some reason I can't seem to see that ordering two kids movies was "something wrong". Perhaps I'm mistaken here, but I seriously doubt that the little boy thought he was doing anything wrong. NOW......in the event his parents had told him "don't you ever order anything over the internet".......then yes, he did something wrong. Who's parents would ever think to tell their six year old child about the pitfalls of internet commerce??
 
(quoted from post at 09:50:39 10/28/14) Bret, I did not say "reward him". I said "give him credit for being resourceful"......two totally different things. For some reason I can't seem to see that ordering two kids movies was "something wrong". Perhaps I'm mistaken here, but I seriously doubt that the little boy thought he was doing anything wrong. NOW......in the event his parents had told him "don't you ever order anything over the internet".......then yes, he did something wrong. Who's parents would ever think to tell their six year old child about the pitfalls of internet commerce??

The kids was probably never told not to use the credit card numbers, to order on line, to set fire to the house or to stab other kids. Some things you shouldn't have to tell anyone. It's not something cute, it's theft. Nip it in the bud. I'm not saying beat the kid, I'm saying if the kid is this smart now they'd better start doing a better job parenting.
 

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