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The last thing that any parent wants is that their children should be stealing. Children who have the tendency to take something that already belongs to them, parents must make them understand without being strict or harsh to them doing such thing is bad. But it must be known that children do not take away things for stealing, because they are too small to have any idea about stealing. Hence parents should not apply to the children what they do for some who is an adult if they come to know about the child’s stealing. Children aging one to three years take things which don’t belong to them because they fail to make out the difference between ‘yours’ and ‘mine’.

Parents should not overreact if a child has taken something, which already belongs to the child. The child must be made to understand without any fuss that the thing does not belong to him or her. When children of six years or reaching adolescence steal then they are fully conscious about it. They often tend to be secretive about it as they know that it would not be approved by parents and they deny when they are confronted. Parents when they find about the stolen things remain surprised to see that the similar of stolen object already belongs to the children. Parents must take the matter seriously and teach their children that when he or she wants to take something must ask the owner about it. It is advisable to go for a child psychologist if stealing becomes a chronic disorder.

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