What To Do When Your Child Steals

Oh no, you've caught your child stealing! Take a deep breath! It's a lot more common than you'd actually think. As a parent, we always want our children to be the best they can be. How can we teach a lesson without being mean and aggressive? Watch this video for my five tips on how to nip this pattern in the bud!

00:15 Importance of teaching principles
01:28 Family rules
03:08 Teaching restitution
05:05 Appropriate consequences
06:49 Stay calm

Watch and Enjoy!
Dr. Paul Jenkins

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[gabrielakarl]

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[clairufo]

I can still remember when I was 7, I was with my dad in a grocery store and I found a tiny bottle of baby oil. I took it and was thinking about putting it in my pocket. I want to do it discretly but then was afraid that a store personnel might see me so I returned it. I randomly thought about that incident several days ago and I never understood why I did that, not until I watched this video.

[mariapedrasa]

Thank you for these video very informative for a mother like me. GODBLESS n more vids like this.

[Marianne]

My 7 year old stepson was previously caught stealing $1.10 worth of change. Instead of getting mad at him, I casually~ smiled at my stepson and then I chen I 🤗
cheerfully 🤗 asked him, "How many fingers do you have *my stepson* "I have ten fingers 😞" *me, changing my tone into strict mode* "OKAY, so I _will make_ you write one hundred times for each finger from which you stole with. That equals one THOUSAND times of how much you'll write that you will _not_ steal anymore 😡Do you understand 😠!?" *my stepson, cringing* "yes 😣" *me* "Ok, cool 🤗👍 sweeet 😈😘" The moral of my story: Kids, never, EVER steal from your mama LOL 😂😆

[angelashawn]

I'm a concerned sister 14 years older than my brother who is 7 now. I'm concerned my mum is not taking motherhood seriously. My brother knows no respect to what so ever. I thank you for all you've said, I just hope my African mum will permit me.

[PheonixStarsx]

I just like the thrill of doing stuff, I love the thrill of hiding from teachers skipping classes, trolling,or taking something from a closet or something I find, as soon as I go back to normal school or do hybrid I’m gonna get a box and put all the stuff I find in it

[pharmclare]

Very helpful content. Thank you for sharing

[isabellas.c.scanderbeg]

I love your 3 Family Rules ✨Fundamental

[Envious]

When I was 8 years old, I stole a bible from Marshall’s. Because I thought if I look at the Bible, it will bring me back home to my parents and away from my abusive foster mom. In November of 2008 I went back to my real parents.

[bridgetaddaigyamfi]

Dr My child is staying with his grandmother and has started steal money .but when he was staying with me he wasn't stealing .The grandmother gives him everything he needs.

[saraperrault]

Please help!! My son has a compulsive stealing problem. Not from the store. From us. We have to keep the electronics in a locked safe and it hasn’t been a problem for a while. Today he came home with the sitter, dug in my husbands underwear drawer to get the key, and unlocked the safe and took them to the sitters house. All of which he knows better. Might I add, the same safe holds out hunting rifles. We’re so beyond mad!!!! How do I rid this?!

[SnowzZ.]

Hi, I'm 14 (going on 15) and I'm concerned about my little brother. He's 8 and steals every so often, and my mom even caught him stealing two kinder eggs today. I used to steel to when I was his age but grew out of it. My mom doesn't take discipline seriously, and will just send him to his room to play with his toys if he does something bad. Is there anything I can do to help my brother stop steeling things?

[shaynelahmed]

I like your three "R's" . all good.

[aevantor]

What do you suggest for children who keep stealing personal items from other family members?

[raeo]

I’m here because my stay daughter tried too steal 60 bucks from me she’s 10!!! She owes me restitution she’s going to work hard too pay me off

[keirahenricksen]

What do I do if my child who's 5 keeps stealing from other kids at his daycare? He will wait for the kid to put the toy away in their cubby then he will steal it. We have tried time outs, explaining to him that it's bad. Nothing works.

[taniasimmons]

Help my daughter has a bad stealing problem she 7 she loves stealing snack foods out my room she started stealing from her classmates at school also from teachers she knows it’s bad she says she just can’t help herself and she knows she will have consequences if I find out but she still does it even if she just got in trouble a few hours later she back trying to steal stuff now she has up graded from stealing snacks to class mate and teachers stuff

[charleslubega]

Dear Dr thanks for this video, how do i make my kid pay back especially after they have used up the money stolen from me? Advice me please Dr

[stickyandsweetie]

Does this all work the same if theyre a teen?

[nathaniel]

My sister's friend is an arrogant 10 year old kid he is feeling rich and he is hardheaded when i said to him not to go to my room he said ok but when i was out of the house my sister and his friend are playing his friend go in my room and steel my lego and you know lego is expensive and when i saw him going home i saw he is holding small lego airplane i built he stole from my room so i called him he keep ignoring me and when i reported to his grandmother he is acting innocent he dont admit what he did he keep lying to his grandmother and his mom that he did not steal anything and his grandmother believe in him and did not care at all so he did not give back the lego he stole from me and i cant do anything so i just ingore them too and nextime i will lock my room when there is a guest in my house