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A life of Crime?
Life lessons are around us everyday. Of course, the ones that make the most impression on us are the ones that either turn out really great, or leave us with that sickly feeling in our stomach.
I don't know how to look on this one. For the first time we had to deal with one of our children taking something that wasn't theirs. I think we all know our children pretty well, and usually know what they are capable of, or at least are able to read them in their reactions and then know what we're dealing with.
Sometimes it's really difficult to understand a child's intent. Recently Colleen went shopping with Michael and when they exited the store she noticed he had his hands behind his back. In my parenting life so far, it has never been good when any of our children have their hands behind their back. Either they are hiding something or they just did something and they are trying to hid themselves in some way.
With Michael it was him hiding a bag of peanut m&ms he had apparently just swiped. At the age of four, how much do they understand about what they just did? Was he trying to get mom to buy the goodies and just didn't have the heart to tell her, or am I looking at a boy who will know the orange jumpsuit well one day?
Since Michael is generally the sweetest of our bunch I actually feel this was a misunderstanding more than anything (unless he is so deviantly brilliant that he is sweet so we will be suckers when he does stuff like this). With a couple of our other ones I would have been more worried. Still I did give him the, the police would take you to jail speech to try and give him some gravity to the situation, but I think it mostly went over his head. Of course, since his uncle is a Chicago Cop, if he pulls it again I could have him come handcuff him and take him away. But that's the reason why we have wives. They tell us how dumb some of our ideas are and don't let them happen. :)
Has your son or daughter gotten sticky fingers? What did you do about it?
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Kristin Connelly
December 16, 2010 (1 year ago)
My 12 year old confessed to me earlier this year that he cheated on a game in school to win the prize. It was hard for me as he is a very sweet, well-behaved child. I didn't really know how to respond. When asked why, he couldn't give me a good reason. The prize was a candy bar so I couldn't exactly make him return it. It had been eaten.
Is anyone willing to share some ideas as to what they would have done? To be honest, I really didn't do much except talk to him about why it was wrong to cheat.