That's the price of a life lesson that has made a *big* impact on Hyrum. We went shopping a few days ago, and I didn't buy him any treats [pretty normal]. A few hours later, I found some green candy wrappers in a favorite hiding spot of his. We didn't have any candy with that wrapper, and I knew I hadn't bought it. "So," I said, "WHERE did this come from?" "The store!" [like, where do you *think* it came from?] Yep. I sent him to get a dollar from his money, and we hopped right into the car and drove back to the store. It was hard for him to tell the clerk what he did, and hard to give her his dollar, but he did it.
And it made some kind of impression on him, since he now tells me every time we're in a store, "Look, I didn't steal *anything*!" That's good, honey. Keep it up ;) LOL, except I keep wanting to check his pockets when he tells me that. Just in case...
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Oh Boy....I know exactly what you mean. Connor had sticky fingers once around the age of 6 when his summer day care went to Walmart on a field trip to buy supplies to make some goodies. Connor took some small toy that the day care then noticed he had once they returned. The director of the day care called me and asked permission to take Connor back to Walmart to confess and pay for the toy. You can bet that money came out of his bank that night and he paid the director back.
Hasn't happened since. It must be a rite of passage??
When I worked at True Value we caught a kid who had stuffed his pockets with things. His friend that was with him didn't have anything but we held him til his parents came too. The next day Friend's mom put up a lawn chair and umbrella and read a book the whole day while her kid weeded all the planters in the parking lot. The theif's parents didn't do anything as far as reparation except pay for the items the kid was caught stealing. It's all in the parenting.
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