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When a kid gets focused on something, it can be hard to distract him.

What would you do if your son became obsessed with getting all the stickers at his Sunday school class, and no matter what the teachers tried, he would not stop collecting them?

That is what happened to the child in this story, and he always found a way around the changes that let him continue to get the stickers. It really was too cute.

Read through the full story below and see what you think of this clever little kid.

The Sticker Grift: Toddler vs Sunday School Teachers

My son is incredibly good at getting what he wants, while still technically following the rules. He is 3 and he already runs laps around me and his father.

Kids can become hyperfocused on certain things.

The best example of this is the ongoing battle he has between the Sunday school teachers and his MIGHTY NEED to obtain all the stickers in the room.

His first Sunday that he’d aged up into the 2’s and 3’s room was the first time he’d seen a pile of stickers available for the kids to play with.

He really wants those stickers.

When we went to pick him up, he ran over to the table, grabbed two handfuls of sticker packs and tried to head out. He was told by the teachers that those were church stickers and he had to leave them for other kids, but he could take his best stickered craft paper home.

He wasn’t thrilled, he tried it again a few times and failed, but he eventually accepted… and plotted.

This kid is not giving up.

Over the next few months, he started layering more and more stickers on the craft paper he was allowed to take home until he eventually was coming home with nearly a quarter inch thick pile of stickers on his paper.

Stickers that would then end up on his car seat, the car door, him, and eventually our house.

They are trying to put a stop to his sticker obsession.

The teachers had tried a number of ways to distract him apparently, watching videos, playing with him to try to stop his sticker grift. While it would work for a bit, it only took a couple of seconds of not watching him like a hawk and he’d be back adding more stickers to his paper.

This past Christmas, it came to my attention that his class had new rules. There were limits to how many stickers the kids were allowed to use per craft.

What did he do now?

I didn’t say much to my son, as I didn’t want to bring attention to it, but he had that look that told me he knew, and he was back to plotting.

This last Sunday, I went to pick him up and when I said his name the teacher went “humph, right…. him” and I asked what happened.

He’ll grow up to be an accountant because he can always find the loopholes.

She explained that he’d been fine, just, he had done all of the crafts multiple times by asking different teachers to help him, bringing home at least 2 of each craft option.

Because with every craft he did, he could get more stickers.

Maybe Mom should just donate some stickers and let him have his fun.

I’m interested to see what the next rule he complies with is, or if the teachers will just give up until he heads to the 4’s and 5’s room next year.

When a kid becomes hyperfocused on one thing, it is sometimes best to just let them have their way until they get bored with it.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this funny story.

If it was a problem, they could have stopped it.

Some kids want things to be spelled out in detail.

Here is a comment from a preschool teacher.

Kids can be so clever.

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This kid will be a handful, that’s for sure.

He is a clever kid who loved his stickers. Sometimes it is not worth it to try to stop them, especially when they aren’t hurting anyone.

It seems to me that this kid wasn’t causing trouble, so there was certainly no reason to get upset about it.