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Offline Curval

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« on: July 30, 2003, 12:15:06 PM »
My wife caught my oldest after he took a lolipop from the store without paying for it this morning.

Sooooooo, at 3.00pm today I am going to march him back to the store and he is going to:

(a)  Pay for it.

(b)  Apologise to the general manager.

I called the store earlier and spoke to the assistant manager and explained that I wanted to pay for what he took and that I wanted the biggest meanest scariest person they had to scare the living daylights out of him.  Apparently the general manager fits the bill perfectly.  :)

I did the same thing when I was just a bit older than my son and my mother did to me what I am about to do to him.  I never did it again.

Any other parents had to do this?
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2003, 12:21:40 PM »
I say turn him over to the authorities.  A night in the slammer should cool him off.

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Re: My son..the shoplifter
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2003, 12:23:09 PM »
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Originally posted by Curval
My wife caught my oldest after he took a lolipop from the store without paying for it this morning.

Sooooooo, at 3.00pm today I am going to march him back to the store and he is going to:

(a)  Pay for it.

(b)  Apologise to the general manager.

I called the store earlier and spoke to the assistant manager and explained that I wanted to pay for what he took and that I wanted the biggest meanest scariest person they had to scare the living daylights out of him.  Apparently the general manager fits the bill perfectly.  :)

I did the same thing when I was just a bit older than my son and my mother did to me what I am about to do to him.  I never did it again.

Any other parents had to do this?


This happened to me as a kid, and I was scarred for life.  I even stole the best wife on the planet! Never even paid for her!

Seriously, my mother did something similiar with me, and I recall being very embarassed about it.  But ya know, I never did shoplift again until I was a teenager. :D

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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2003, 12:26:15 PM »
I had this Star Trek plastic gun that shot these little colored disks from it....these disks worked perfectly as slugs in gumball machines.

My mom caught me buying gum at the grocery store using these slugs....she turned me in to the store manager as well.

Good work....what a wild concept....raise your kids.:)

The Bible says, raise a child in the way they should go and when they're old, they will not depart from it.

It's worked with my four.

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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2003, 12:48:36 PM »
Yea but Rip, your the meany making them study during Summer Vacation and won't ante up for a X-Box!  :)  By time they get the thing, something newer/cooler will be out  hehehe

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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2003, 12:51:25 PM »
Something somewhat similar happened to me when I was about 12.

My neighbor owned a grocery store (little shop, really) and I was always building model airplanes.

Anyway, I went into the store and asked for "Model Glue".

Apparently, the guy was a fall down drunk, and heard me ask for "Bamboo" which, I learned later, was a form of rolling paper.

I never understood why the clerk told me to get lost and he was not selling me any, when I clearly asked for Model glue.

Anyway, he called my father, who approached me when he got home.

I was asked one question: "What the F*** are you doing with that sh*t?!"

I simply replied, "huh?"

To which I was punched square in the chest.

Later, MUCH later, my father found out he was wrong, and apologized....sorta.

Bottom line, I never took a hit of pot in my life. Never used any drugs. WHy? Well, I was terrified of my father.

WTG on your parenting. Don't punch you kid in the chest, but get your point across.

It's nice to see parents being parents for a change.

(Of course, I never use drugs, but I smoke a pack of Marlboro a day and drink like a fish...2 more things I learned from dad.....Oh and about 5 years ago, I came across a bag of weed when I was cleaning out the old man's basement...friggin hypocrit!)

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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2003, 01:05:36 PM »
IMO that's a good way to handle it Curval.

having appropriate consequences for their (kids)
actions is the best way to prepare them for the
world.. and they'll be much happier and better
adjusted.

but next time... cut off a finger  

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Offline Berra85

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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2003, 01:08:36 PM »
Although i havent got any kids, only 18, i think that is a damn good idea, wtg :)

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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2003, 01:09:00 PM »
i did the same thing when i was 6 or 7. parents made me do the same thing, and i havnt stolen anything from anyone ever since. still remember the incident clearly.

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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2003, 01:11:04 PM »
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Originally posted by Curval
.......... and my mother did to me what I am about to do to him.  I never did it again.  Any other parents had to do this?


Believe it or not, but I remember my mother doing exactly the same thing over 50 years ago at a store in Detroit, where we had been visiting on a shopping trip.  I still remember the experience as if it was yesterday.  I was one scared young pup when I had to go back to the store with some small "silver plastic" bullets I had taken from a kid's toy gun and holster set.  It's amazing how some things and emotional experiences like that get etched into one's mind.

Sure cured me from that point onward........

Nice to see someone who cares enough about their responsibilities for child rearing, to go to these lengths to teach a valuable life lesson about respecting other's property....

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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2003, 01:12:56 PM »
Stole a little airplane whistle when I was about 6.  It kicked ass.  It was a little twin engined plane, that when you blew into it, it whistled and the props spun.

When my dad saw it and realized where I'd obtained it, he did the same thing.  Drove right back to the store, and Dad made me hand it back to the manager and apologize.  

Never stolen anything since.

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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2003, 01:30:10 PM »
Ah these stories...

See I never stole anything but got blamed for it once.

I was 9, there was something going on at the police junior league.  My dad gave me a few coins to get a soda.  When the soda came out the chute, I checked the change slot and there was 50 cents in it.  Cool!  So in the next machine, I bought a candybar.  

Walking back to my Dad and seeing more than he had given me money for, he just yanked me aside, told me I'd swiped that from someone and before I had a chance to go "but..." I'd been slapped and we were back in the car heading home. Seems he couldn't wait to tell Mom how bad I was.  So, shrug...I got grounded for the weekend for basically having a lil luck  

LOL

Years later I told him about what happened and pretty much just got a silent "doh" from him.

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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2003, 01:30:42 PM »
Caught my daughter with some stuff from a couple shops in the local mall when she was about 12.

I drove here down, and marched her inside. I then stood at the doorway to each shop, and made her tell the manager what she had done. She was ready to return the goods, and/or pay for them. She was sobbing the whole time, but I was so pissed it didn't matter.

Worked like a charm though.




She's doing great, and is gonna make me a grandpa this month.

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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2003, 01:38:28 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Caught my daughter with some stuff from a couple shops in the local mall when she was about 12.

I drove here down, and marched her inside. I then stood at the doorway to each shop, and made her tell the manager what she had done. She was ready to return the goods, and/or pay for them. She was sobbing the whole time, but I was so pissed it didn't matter.

Worked like a charm though.




She's doing great, and is gonna make me a grandpa this month.


Not at 12, right?  LOL

Congrats!

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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2003, 02:04:51 PM »
Islamic law clearly says that the punishment for theft is the amputation of a hand.  Or at least that was what happens to thieves in Islamic Fundamentalist countries, not that there are many of them still around.

Hey, I don't write the religious edicts, I just interpret them based on judicial precedent!