A year ago, I caught my son stealing small amounts of money from me and confiscated his TV and PS3 as punishment.
He has recently turned twelve. A few weeks ago, I started finding my purse open in my bag and empty (neither is unusual but it was happening a lot).
The next thing to go missing was ten pounds, then five pounds, then two lots of ten pounds from his grandma.
He was using the money to buy himself match attax.
I have cleared everything from his room except furniture and clothes to teach him to appreciate what he has. He will be paying us both back from his pocket money to realise just how much he has stolen. He will be grounded for two weeks (in his empty bedroom) to realise that I can't trust him to go out of the house wihout supervision. I took him to the shop he was spending the money in to tell the owner I had banned him from going in and why so that he would feel the shame of being known to be a thief. He, of course, had to apologise to granny. Is that enough? Is that too much?
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my son is stealing from family - again
HellesBelles396 · 02/12/2012 13:41
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