Last night I was at the "young mothers' Bible study" at church (no, I am not young, but they said we old ones could come too since they're meeting at night this summer). In the course of the evening, one mom told how she caught her (young) daughter at home with a necklace that they hadn't paid for. The girl had hidden it in her room.
The mom made her take it back to the store and apologize. Then she took it one step further - she took the whole family down to the county juvenile division, and the warden gave them a tour. Her husband went along also, which added to the gravity of the situation. The warden told the girl, "If you were a little older and you took something without paying for it, you'd have to come here. The beds are hard, there are no toys, and there are no mommies."
After they got home they hugged her and told her how much they loved her. I'd venture to say that that girl, or her siblings (who were very affected by the whole thing), will never ever steal anything again! There's a mom who drove her point home!
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