Your Child Steals? Try These 4 Simple Steps for Permanent Improvement!

What was your first reaction when you came to know that your child steals? Well, let me tell you: Shocked! Even I was shocked and angry to know that for my 7-year old child. While this is an obvious reaction, it is certainly not useful or fruitful if you want your child to improve.

Kids or children continue to develop physical, mentally, and knowledgeably until their adulthood. So, it is common for them to inadvertently nourish a wrong habit such as that of stealing. It is we as parents who are supposed to bring them on them on the right track.

However, it is possible to play this responsible role only with pure love. Sadly, we end up doing so with anger, insistence, threatening, and imposition. Fortunately, I got to learn some practical steps for improving your child who steals but does not know its hurtful consequences.

In these steps, there is no place for anger, blaming, scolding, punishing, and scaring, as they all have only worst consequences. You may have a question here as to how can you improve your child without these emotional weapons. Well, as a reply to that, kindly read ahead my own experience who successfully tried the steps of how to stop a child from stealing.

Step 1: Maintain Equanimity Inside and Show Disapproval Outside.

Do Not: Yell, blame, or punish!

My Wrong Approach

Just like some parents, I used to scold and punish my child for stealing showing no sign of mercy. However, I soon realized that such a step is making my child more aggressive and defiant. After all, my goal was to improve my child, not to spoil him further.

Most parents scold or punish because they are worried of their social status or they want to control their children. I am sorry to be so frank but this is reality applicable even to me. Even I was the same. However, this is not true love and kids improve only through such love.

The Right Approach

According to a book I read on ‘Generation Gap’ released by Dada Bhagwan Foundation, there are two settings that parents should make instantly, which worked for me like a breeze. As the first reaction to the stealing act, you should disapprove the…

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