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:yeahthat: ABSOLUUUUTELY
You ain't seen nothin' yet hun.wait till they hit the teen years.
But....we wouldn't swap 'em for the world!
and yet they still manage to make you love 'em
FWIW I think that's all pretty normal stuff to go through. It's how they learn what's ok & what's not, KWIM?
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A friend of mine had this problem with her 5 year old DD - but her DD was stealing things from shops. Despite repeated talks, warnings, explanations, shoutings...she tried all approaches...she could not get through to her DD that stealing was wrong.
She made her DD return the items to the shop and apologise to the shopkeeper which looked like it was going to work...but then her DD did it again...so she actually took her down to the police station and had one of the officers give her a talking to. This worked like a charm and she has not had a problem since.
It is nothing to do with your parenting...it is about impulse control. But for her own sake it needs to be nipped in the bud early on, not just from a teaching right and wrong perspective but also before the kids at school get wind of it. Kids have memories like elephants and she may never live it down. That's a far worse punishment for a kid learning right from wrong. For instance, I still remember to this very day the little boy in primary school who stole my new Pacer pencil and I caught him sneaking it back to my desk...and the girl who took my special blue pen my dad gave me. That one was returned to me by another girl who was playing at the house of the girl who took my pen...she recognised it and stole it back! The word spread around the classroom like wildfire. Everyone knew who they were.
Maybe you can also teach her that if she sees that someone has something she likes, she can ask you if she can have one too, not to take it...that might work. And if she does do that, don't always say "no" either...if you always say no, then she will stop asking and you might have the same problem all over again.
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