Candy from his teachers desk, I am so embarrassed. We made him write 200 sentences, and he has been doing chores all night. I am so upset, what made him think this was okay. I feel like a horrible mother, who has failed her children.
Sometimes kids are just little shits for no reason.
If you haven't already, make sure he apologizes to his teacher in person and replaces what he took. He's just a kid who is testing boundaries. You're not a horrible mother and there's no need for you to be embarrased- HE should be.
My 10 year old stole a roll of raffle tickets from church.
My Mum is the preist, she had him do a public apology to the church program that was using them, and had him clean up some rooms in the church for community service.
When we asked him why, he had no clue why he did it. None at all. He said he just wanted them. Sometimes kids do that stuff, even if they are awesome kids. It happens. You just have to make sure that it doesn't keep happening.
your kids are allowed to screw up a few times before you are considered a failure!!! :)
deep breath! stick with the punishment, some kids just push and rebel a little more than others, it's how you handle it that matters and it sounds like you're on top of it, so well done to you! :)
how old is he? Maybe he didnt think he was stealing because the teacher has given him that candy before and thought it was okay to have it?
Don't take this the wrong way but this actually made me smile. I was the goody-goody child growing up, always listened, was a real pleaser, always wanted to do the right thing. But in first grade I stole a WHOLE bunch of chalk from the chalkboard tray. My mum put it in a sandwich bag with a note saying I had taken it, it was wrong, and that I would accept punishment from the teacher (I was getting another punishment at home). I was so embarassed about that because at the time I didn't see it as stealing. It was "just chalk" and it seemed she had so much of it she'd never miss it. And she let us draw on the chalkboard at recess so I thought it was kind of ours anyway. Don't beat yourself up. Kids are a work in progress. If they were always doing the right thing they wouldn't need us to teach them. :)
leaving baby alone while i do laundry?