My son lost his phone at school last week, he got a bloody good telling off believe me, he has lost sssoooooooooooo much lately he's driving me mad. Anyway it was handed it and we were very grateful. (have a fiver in an envelope that I still have to get to the boy that handed it in).
Fast forward a couple of days and my cousins son, who are in the same class as eachother has found a phone outside the school. Obviuosly they don't know if the phone belongs to any boy in the school, we are assuming it might.
Anyway his mum has said he can keep it. I'm and that she has allowed him to do this as 1) it isn't his to keep 2) she's not teaching him to do the right thing she is effectively teaching him to steal.
He has just knocked on the door to show me this phone and seemed rather proud. I told him I think he should have handed it in and he looked a bit shcoked. I know i'll have her on the phone later, thats fine i'll tell her too.
If she had found it and decided not to hand it in then that's her lookout, but surely you don't instill these morals onto your children , or do you??
Am I being a bit over dramatic, my son is now thinking it's ok for him to play 'finders keepers'.
She also has another son that stole from a store a couple of weeks ago for a dare.