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My 4 year old Daughter is a Thief!
I knew this day would come.
I did it myself when I was 4 years old. I took a pack of Life Savers from the grocery store. My mother marched me back in to the store and made me apologize. I was scared and I cried because I was sad and I felt like I was bad.
Well this weekend I went to a store with my daughter. I checked out at the cashier and we got into the car. She then produced a DVD of a movie that I had no idea she had hidden from me. Of course I did not pay for it and did not realize that she had smuggled it out of the store.
I thought of marching her back into the store but then I remembered what happened to me. Also I already had her buckled in, and if you have kids you know what a pain in the ass it is to undo the whole thing.
I decided to say nothing and next time I will have to pay more attention to her in the store even though I had her in the cart the whole time.
Actually I am more disturbed at how I did not notice she had a DVD???? I hope this doesn't make me a bad Dad.
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I stole a roll of Smarties from a store when I was 4. My mum did the same thing.
I don't steal from stores now. I only steal office supplies. But it's ok. My boss is a real jerkoff.
I was asked to join a "club" when I was maybe 6 or 7 and it was a stealing club. We would go to the local grocery store and try to walk out with a candy bar. That's the way it was supposed to go down. But I couldn't do it. I paid for the candy bar, then came out and said I did it. Weird. Then my younger brother stole something (joined same club) and showed me. I realized that I was now a bad influence. So I told him what I'd really done, and walked back to the store with him and paid for it. So, not sure if I was scared of getting caught or just feeling guilty. It's not like I didn't do other stuff later that I regret.
I steal towels and linens from hotel rooms, but only the really nice ones and only when traveling in Italy and France.
I know it's technically "wrong," but with the exchange rate, etc., it's really the only way to get your money's worth and even then . . .
Which DVD was it? Bad taste is worse than kleptomania.
Welcome to parenthood Jason--as a parent of two little ones myself- i am amazed at how often their actions catch me off-guard!!! So think of it this way- you've have your initiation into yet another facet of the "parent club"!! So here's my only advice as a psychologist (and a parent)-- stealing once is normal-- its a way that little ones test the boundries/rules of the world.. All you must do now is watch more carefully-- if it's happening over and over - if it is becoming a pattern- you nip it in the bud. Kids as you know do crazy things- it's how they learn.. The consequences you set for their actions will determine how likely it is that they do the behavior again. So let her know through your actions-- you are watching and that she won't succeed this way.. That will go a long way in curbing this little "problem".. hang in there.. jk
Add Your Comment... Isn't it normal to once steal something.....we all like to "get away" with something, have our own little secret. I would (hopefully) sit the child down, and tell him, her, we need to pay for everything, the store owner, has to make a living, however, if your doing that during adulthood, it's another story.
What dvd was it?