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help for my 12 yr.old son?

past few months I found out that my 12 yr.old son stole my jewelries and gave it to his female friend (a classmate). I got the shocked of my life when the girl and her grandmother came to my house to return the stuffs that my son gave her.

that we also found out that he used my husbands credit card to pay to download a game from the internet. He has been stealing money from us too but he doesn't spend it.

when i was cleaning his room I found a cable bill under his pillows and saw some video on demand being charged, 2 were adult movies. I've already talked to him but i still need more advices about this..pls. help.

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1. Andrea on August 15th, 2008 at 4:39 pm:

   1. put a parent lock code on your cable for pay per view movies so your son can't order them.

   the code once a month because kids will spend hours going through the numbers trying to find the code. 2.

   son has to pay for the movies.

   take it from his allowance or give him chores that will equal out. 3. go ahead and put a different password on your computer as well.

   likely he is looking at online porn as well. Also, put a block on your phone for 1 900 numbers. 4.

   a lock box for your jewelry and credit cards until he gets out of this phase.

   he needs to be punished, but you must also secure your assets until you are confident he will no longer do this. 5.

   need to come down VERY hard on this. It sounds like he has been getting away with these things for a while and he needs to learn while he is still young that their are severe consequences or he will end up in juvenile jail or eventually adult jail. 6.

   sure that even though the consequences are severe that he sees light at the end of the tunnel or he will just give up. 7. Don't call him a thief.

   want him to know you disapprove of his behavior not HIM. 8.

   one of our kids, when nothing else seemed to work, we took literally everything out of his room while he was at school, even clothes.

   it was alot of work and a pain but he never stole again. We told him that with nothing in his room we would know that there was nothing stolen in there.

   for every day he didn't steal, we gave him the choice of one object he wished to have back. We did this for one or two weeks and then gave it all back. Obviously he was grounded during this time with absolutely nothing to do but sit in an empty room.

   gave him both negative and positive consequences and allowed him to earn his way out of trouble. I suggest you speak with the school counselor.

   needs to be aware that this is happening so they can watch for it and the counselor can suggest other things to do and/or provide counseling for him.

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