My 11yr old dd (nearly 12) has been stealing for a while. When we found pencils/rulers etc in her bag at her primary sch, which she had clearly taken from her classroom, we made her take them back to hand into her teacher. This stopped for a while, but she has now moved onto taking money from my purse. The last time she was very upset & swore she would never take again - but this morning I found out she had! Again - 'sorry, won't do it again'! I really am at a loss of what to do. We recently opened a debit account for her & put her pocket money into it, so she has access to her own money, as she goes to/from school on her own, I talked to her about buying sweets on way home - saying that I obviously can't stop her,but would rather she didn't each day as not healthy. I took away her purse this morning and itouch (which she isn't allowed during the week anyway), also took away her favourite 2 toys which she sleeps with.
Am going to sit down tonight with her & ask why she does it etc (but her stock reply has always been 'I don't know'....) just want some words of wisdom to help me go about it the right way.....?
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11year old stealing!
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afterthebath · 17/10/2012 12:02
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