Teenagers, why do you steal money and other things from your parents?

Teenagers Who Steal

i'm a 15 year old boy (nearly 16) never stole from parents. I once stole a 10p packet of harry bows when I was 9 and felt so bad I went to the shop owner handed it back and gave £1 for compensation (i know I'm weird)

Basically in my opinion he is a ungrateful, dirty little ****.

Tell him to get a Job or kick him out. Would serve him right and maybe even do some good and make him change.

Speaking as a 22 year old, I never ever EVER would have thought of doing this to my mom or father. Just the thought of what they would do to my hide thinking about it even now..yeesh..

But, I do have an older brother, who is 26 now, who DID steal from our parents. I always ratted him out if I saw him do it, or saw the evidence. My brother still has an issue with disobeying the rules and laws of the land, and now has a criminal record for it, even getting thrown into jail while he was in the NAVY for stealing things from a shop in South Korea.

We have a wonderful parents, A police officer is our father, and my mother is an Optician. Very focused in both of our lives, and were very active parents with us while we were growing up. They took my brother to therapy a lot because he kept feeling the need to do disruptive things like this,and was (still is) a very emotionally unstable person. The reason I bring up my parents backgrounds is because a lot of people think that stuff like this only happens in "certain homes" usually broken or poor families, but we're a upper middle class family and we are having the same issue with my brother, and still have yet to find an explanation.

The best thing you can do is sit down with your son, turn off all distractions and talk, not yell. Let him know how you two are feeling about this, your concerns for him now, and his future, and let him know that you want to help him become a good wonderful person. Just get him to relax enough to talk to you.

Talk to him about it. If he is stealing, then odds are that he's doing something worse that you don't know about. Maybe even with the money he's stealing. But that is not a certainty. Ground him or make him pay you back by getting a job, but TALK to him. Find out why he feels he needs to steal. Knowing the reason/problem will help prevent this from happening again better than punishing him.

He's filling some psychological void, feels entitled to more than he is given, or something deeper...like repressed feelings. 99% of it has a psychological root.

Is he an angry child?

Is he passive-aggressive?

Is he just sneaky & devious in a quiet, timid way?

Does he have an addiction problem? (You may be unaware of)

There is a lot more to this question than you might think.. and the answers lay buried deep in this child's psyche. It isn't as simple as you make it out to be in such a short quip here. A history of it is implied... and you might need to think about what was going on around him when this all began... therein lies your answers.

I am a 17 yo teen, never stole anything from my parents, occasional shoplift of gum, but never from parents... Maybe emotional distress....

well miss Kathy your son is just going through peer preasuer. . I'm not going to pretend to be clean cos i'm not. .i have two reasons to steal my moms staff

1) when i ask for something and she says she doesnt have it but then i find it. .i dont hesitate.

2) when she pisses me i relief my anger by hurting her back .then i regret it afterwards