What to do when your kid is caught stealing
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Show of hands, parents, those of you who remember nicking a packet of pretzels from a friend?s lunch box or a He-Man figure from the toy store. Or surely you recall standing at the convenience store, eyes darting left and right as you stuffed your pockets with clammy fistfuls of Toostie Rolls, or, in my case, an eraser in the shape of a Coke bottle.
It was the sweet cola scent that made me do it! Had my brother not found it stashed away in the drawer of my little wooden desk and told on me, my mom would never have known.
It?s not uncommon?particularly between the ages of five and eight, when testing limits is kids? raison d?être?for little ones to take something that doesn?t belong to them, says Julie Freedman Smith of Parenting Power, a Calgary-based coaching team. ?Unlike toddlers, this age group knows that it?s wrong to steal,? she says, ?but they?re wondering, ?just how wrong is it"?? Six-year-old Max was testing the waters when he snuck a pack of gum into his pocket at the checkout aisle of a Hamilton big-box store.
When his mom, Magda Jaroszynski, realized, they were already well on their way home. She was furious. ?All he could get out was: ?I?m sowwy.? He?s not allowed to have gum, so that?s why he took it.?
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