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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/EastOk9176 on 2023-08-05 16:34:40.
So I took my 13 yr old daughter to the mall for her birthday with a few of her friends. I don’t particularly like her friends, but that’s irrelevant. Anyway, they were having fun. They bought some makeup and and tried on clothes, I bought them a couple outfits each but nothing super expensive. Then I noticed my daughter pocketing a lipgloss. I got really mad (usually I don’t get mad) and I asked her In a pretty loud voice what she was doing.
She said nothing, and I made her turn out her pockets, and then I made her return it and apologize. A lot of people in the store were watching and so were her friends. Luckily the store people didn’t make it a huge deal and we left. We went home straight away after that, and after we dropped off her friends my daughter was really angry with me.
She said she ruined her birthday and that she could have scolded me for stealing the lipgloss later, when we were alone. She said it didn’t really matter that much and now her friends would tell everyone, and they’d all look down on her. I remember middle school and how much it sucked. She might lose friends over this. Am I the asshole for not handling it in a quieter way?