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Is this too harsh?

post #1 of 5
9/20/07 at 4:59pm
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Ok, Chris came home today with a note from his teacher. Not a good note.....turns out he has been taking the marbles from a box she uses to help to teach math ( grouping and such). Over the last two weeks or so he has taken them all.....and lost them. Now I have to replace him. We wee supposed to go on a Cub Scout camp out ( Chris' first) this weekend. I think as punishment, I am going to make him miss the campout and use the $10 he was supposed to take to contribute to food to go replace his teachers marbles. I don't want to be mean, but I think I really need to make the point to him now that stealing is a very serious thing. Do you think my punishment is too harsh or perhaps just the right lesson?
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post #2 of 5
9/20/07 at 5:10pm
I would still let him go to the camp out.
Have him write and apology letter to the teacher and give her the marbles himself.
What ever choice you make, you know it will be the right one for him
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post #3 of 5
9/21/07 at 9:07am
I'm torn with this one... While I think what he did deserves punishment, I think that Cub Scout camp will be a really possitive experience for him. If it were a birthday party or something purely for fun, I'd agree and say he should stay home.
I think that Jenn had a really good suggestion in making him write an apology letter and replace the marbles. (BTW, you can get a bag of marbles at most Dollar Stores or in the section of .88 toys at Walmart)
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post #4 of 5
9/21/07 at 1:40pm
I would be torn on this one. I know how cub campouts can be a great learning experience for him...and I hate to use any educational tool as a punishment (although the campouts are fun too). I do, however, like the idea of making him write a letter of apology to his teacher, and have him give her the marbles....at the same time, I would have him do things at home to earn the money to pay for those marbles. That way he is learning that stealing is wrong. If an adult or older child does it, we get taken to jail and have to do community service and such.....so it is truly a fitting punishment to the crime
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post #5 of 5
9/21/07 at 5:52pm
This same type of thing happend with Connor last year. One day he took scissors and cut up about 10 glue sticks. The teacher told me about it and he was put in time out in school.
I went and bought some more and he gave them to her with a note. She didnt expect me to replace them at all but I felt that they should be. She was so proud of Connor for writing the letter and apologizing.

At home I talked to him about damaging things that are the classes. In your case it would be taking from the teacher.
I didnt punish him at home for it. The letter and actually giving her the glue sticks seemed to work for him.
Good luck, let us know what happens.
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