(I was supposed to post this yesterday but between the exorcism and intervention I was a little busy!)
Yesterday after having such a wonderful two hour session of ME TIME, I went to pick my son up from school. When we get in the car he is so excited to show me a toy in his pocket. I have never seen the toy before. Here's how the conversation goes:
Me: Where did you get that?
Him: School.
Me: Did your teacher tell you that you could bring that home.
Him: Yes.
Me: Which teacher?
Him: Miss S
Me: Let me go ask her.
Him: NO!! (As he cowers on the floor of the back seat in the car)
So, I proceed to peel him from the floor and march back in the school to ask the teacher if she in fact said he could take the toy home. Of course, she had NOT.
I chastised him all the way home about the evils of stealing and how one day he could end up in jail for taking stuff that doesn't belong to him. At the end of my ranting he says, "I should have just asked," DUH! I was still so disgusted- wait let me back up- did I mention this was NOT the first time he's done this?! This is like the second time he's been caught. Anyway, when we got home I swatted his butt a couple of times (so light he probably didn't even know it happened) and then I made him go to his room. He acted as if he were a dead man walking and started crying uncontrollably.
After listening to him for ten minutes I went upstairs and gave him a stern talking to. This little boy is honestly- SPOILED. He has gotten pretty much whatever he's wanted in his short time on Earth and I don't even want to get into the insane amount of stuff he gets from family every Christmas. There are toys that are unopened that I've hidden from him! There is absolutely, positively NO REASON whatsoever for him to be taking stuff that does not belong to him! My dilemma now is sharing this news with his father. . .he might have to put on an orange jumpsuit!
I've heard some people say that this is typical for this age or that it's harmless but I'm sorry I can't treat it that way. He needs to know in no uncertain terms that if he even THINKS about doing this again life as he knows it will change drastically. I swear on everything I will box up ALL his toys and give them away to a shelter! First comes stealing, then smoking cigarettes, gambling and making homemade bombs in his room! This madness must be nipped in the bud now!
I think what it boils down to is feeling like he can have whatever he wants because this has -to some degree-been his reality. . .well, reality is about to get checked!
Disclaimer: That picture is at 7 months old. . .in 2004.
2 comments:
your son had a professional bush lol. i think it's natural for kids to take stuff but it's also natural for us as parents to set them straight.
I know. . .I've been giving him grief but I do seriously want him to know it's WRONG! I think what really set me off was he initially LIED about it. And he did it with such ease. It's funny because all weekend he was making a point to tell me that when you take something without asking it's stealing- and he was referring to me taking one of his french fries or fruit snacks w/o asking him! Ha! Guess I gotta walk the talk!
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