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On Tuesday, Pernille Støle Karlsen (8) and a friend of Pernille’s mother went to Fritzøe Brygge in Larvik after school.
While my mother, Beate, was shopping at the store, Pernille and her friend sat on a bench outside enjoying ice cream.
Pernille felt independent when she brought her own pink wallet on the trip. But what Mom didn’t know was that her daughter had all the savings in the cute rabbit wallet.
It was Østlands-Posten who first mentioned the case.
Light everywhere
When the ice cream was eaten and the food was fine in its place in the car, the three of them headed home.
In the car, Beate discovered that something was missing. Pernille’s wallet. It is gone. The eight-year-old must have left it on the bench when they ate ice cream.
Mom returned to the store. But the wallet was not in the bank outside. Maybe he had lost it when he entered the store?
The menu shop staff took Beate seriously and were very helpful. They searched both below and above the shelves, but did not see any wallets.
Suddenly, a young woman came running up to Beate with what clearly had to be Pernille’s gaudy wallet. He had found it inside the downtown bathroom.
I’ve been saving for a long time
Thank God Pernille is happy now, Beate thought. Until he went out to the parking lot and opened his wallet. It was empty.
– Pernille had saved for a long time. All the birthday money, weekly salary, as well as the grandparents’ 100 bills before the holidays. With small and large, he had 2000 crowns in that wallet, says father Eric Støle Karlsen on TV 2.
It was with great regret that the parents had to break the bad news to the eight-year-old.
With teary eyes he asked his parents: – Has the money run out? Did all the money run out?
Hard lessons
Pernille was very upset. While dad Eric was cursed with the person or people who stole the money.
– For a long time we have tried to teach Pernille that you can’t just get what you want. You have to be patient and save little by little, says Støe Karlsen.
The father says that Pernille has received a hard lesson, that she must take care of her things and not carry so much money with her at another time.
The parents are also clear that they will replace the daughter’s lost money, but Støle Karlsen cannot get rid of who can be stolen from the daughter.
– It is quite obvious that a pink wallet with a rabbit is a boy. And who really steals money from a little boy? Eric asks.
Attitude talk
He hopes that parents can use this example to talk with their own children. Talk about the attitudes your own family has.
– Talking around the kitchen table: What would you have done if you had found this wallet? Is it not natural to hand it over to the store or to the police? Or is it okay to sneak onto the bus, for example? Where exactly is the line between good and evil? says Støle Karlsen.
And if it’s an adult who has stolen the eight-year-old’s money, Støle Karlsen has a clear message: Get together! You just don’t steal from a child!
– Reprehensible
Philosophy professor Espen Gamlund at the University of Bergen, who works extensively with ethics and moral philosophy, believes that it is reprehensible for someone to steal money from a child’s wallet.
– We teach our own children that other people’s things should not be stolen and then it is bad for someone to steal the children’s money. It’s even worse when it’s a child who has saved this money for a long time, says Gamlund.
The teacher is concerned with moral philosophy and ethics, and not least with how we behave with each other in daily life.
– Some people think that if nobody finds out that you are stealing, there is no problem. But we can expect the person who did this to feel embarrassed about stealing from a child, return the money, and apologize, says Gamlund.
