ds2 age 10 is stealing random stuff from us. I found some of my underwear in his room a few weeks ago and thought little of it, assumed he was 'dressing up' and didn't want to embarrass him so just quietly took it back. Then before the holidays I found one of my tops in his school bag and assumed he had picked it up with his PE kit or something. Now this week I have found 3 pairs of my tights, 4 pairs of dh's boxers shoved down between his bed and the wall. ds1 (12) went in to look for his swimming trunks yesterday and found several pairs of his pants in ds2's pants drawer.
We think there might be money as well, dh thinks that he has lost £5 out of his wallet but can't remember. I strongly suspect he has been taking the odd £1 coin from my bag but can't prove this.
Dh has tried to talk to him about it this morning but hasn't got anywhere. I doubt he is able to say why he has done it. He was a bit 'light fingered' when he was very little - came home from a friend's house with a Lego man years ago, a dice from school, a decorative pebble from Grandma's house, we dealt with all of these at the time and thought he had grown out of it. He is doing well at school, plays football outside of school, doesn't socialise much but never has and doesn't seem to want to. If anyone has any similar experiences, how did you deal with it?