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Fzoul Chembryl
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I don't know who to be madder at! My son or the theives! Sure, stealing is wrong and it shouldn't happen. But when you leave your bike laying around unlocked constantly, you're asking for it! When he was eight, he just left his new bike somewhere and forgot where it was. I gave him a two year suspension until he got a new one. I bought him a brand new mountain bike for Xmas. Well, he got to ride it maybe five times this summer. Twice I had to chase him outside to put it away. Well, this time he left it out and it disappeared. Instead of getting better at taking care of his stuff, he's just coming up with more excuses. This time, he insisted(lied) he locked it up. Apparently, the thief took the time to pick the lock, take only one bike out of four, and carefully re-locked the chain.
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I think that a proper bike lock is the first thing, here. But, yeah, a child needs to know that actions have consequences. Give him a month without his bike, make him do chores to earn the money for a new one would be my first suggestion. My sons are 16 and 4, nearly.
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hmmn well im not an adult as a kid i know what would make me rele rele bad and maybe even teach me summit and its also the sort of thing my dad would do. take away everything he has leave him with a bed matress duvet and carpet.that should teach him
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Sounds like a valuable learning experience for your son Sir K.....the old saying...fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me might just apply here...a few months without a bike might make him more attentive to taking care of his things.....
As a parent...if my son or daughter did these kinds of things they would not have anything, and owuld have to earn anything they got in the future. Appreciation is impportant, if they don't appreciate what they get, they wont understand values later on in life...so this should be a good learning experience.....just my opinion dude....there are as many ways to raise a child as there are parents in the world [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 07-15-2002, 02:41 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ] |
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Uhm, you leave your ten year old home alone?? To me that seems way to young to have that much responsibility. Especially in light of him not having the proper responsibility to watch out for his own things.
If faced with this situation I would do this: I would tell him, or her, I am going to stop buying him things. That if s/he wanted something like a bike or whatever, they'd have to pay for it themselves. If they didn't have the money, they'd have to work for it. My own indentured servant. The problem now is that he is not responsible for the loss. You are. You paid for the items, if they are lost, then it's up to you to replace them. |
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I trust my 11 year old home alone...though Im not sure if I would on a regular basis where he could "plan" for it [img]smile.gif[/img]
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