My 6 Year Old is stealing HELP!?

Did you try talking to him? Punishment is a last resort for extreme cases and ONLY if you know it will work! You'll be surprised how much a 6 year old can understand. Tell him a story about a little boy who had a favorite toy (which happens to be your 6 year olds favorite toy too). Tell him how a neighbor was jealous and stole it. Ask him how the boy felt. Ask him how he felt when the neighbor returned it. Ask him if he would like to earn something similar to the toy that he stole! Ask him what he should do when he sees someone else's toy that he really wants! Good luck!

i have the same problem as you do. my 7 year old steals too, i've done everything possible to have him stop and nothing works. i finally took him to a cop friend of mine that he didn't know and they scared him s***less he doesn't steal anymore. we told him that they would do a lie detector test on him and it will shock him if he lies (he was denying stealing, when the evidence was in his mouth). he wrote down his name and age and told him that if he does it again that they had his name and age in his computer so they don't have to get the information again.

at first i took away all his stuff, didn't let him go anywheres or do anything, gave the other kids treats, gave him timeout. nothing would work, then i thought of the cop thing, and so far no stealing. hopefully you will give that a try. nothing wrong with trying it out.

When my 6 year old stole from a store, I made him return it in person (I drove him there but he had to hand it to the manager) and that was pretty traumatic for him so he hasn't done it again.

When my brother stole a baseball card from his friend, my dad made him give the stolen card back AND allow the friend to choose any 5 cards from my brother's collection. That was also a valuable lesson.

My advice is that you A) make him own up to his misdeed AND apologize and B) let the punishment suit the crime...in other words, if he's stealing candy, he needs to have candy removed (and if possible given to the victims of his crime)..if it's toys, he needs to have toys taken.

Bottom line is it needs to be abundantly clear that this behavior won't be tolerated in your family, but also clear that it is the behavior that is unliked, not the child.

You can speak with his teacher about this.

You can--instead of grounding him, you can take all the stuff he has stolen, and give it back.

My suggestion is grounding him longer each time he steals.

He might be doing this because he doesn't have it and he wants it.

Set up a chart that says"Greedy chart" and every time he steals, he has a check

and once he has 10 checks, you ground him for a month.(Every 10 times, it is a month)

Or you can ask him what he wants ,and tell him to NOT steal again,then,he will get whatever he wants.

Children that steal have to develop a conscience. They have to be taught why it is wrong. Of course there has to be discipline, but teaching has to go along with it. Go to the library and get a book for yourself and for him. Read his with him. Talk to him. Get him and yourself into therapy if you need to. Be glad you are finding out now while he is young. To be forewarned is to be forearmed!

Made the reason that she is stealing cause when you moved the ppl for the school or the friends that she has are not good ppl to be... Go to her school tall her i want to meet your friends see how they act if the do or say bad things...

he probably steals because he gets treated unfairly at home.what goes on at school,should stay at school