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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think you should examine the behavior without focusing on the value of the rings. She accessed your possessions, and she treated those possessions carelessly, which sounds kind of normal for an ADHD kid but also needs to be a key learning opportunity.

If you didn’t have clear rules before about what she can/can’t touch of yours, then make a clear rule now and write it down.
You can’t expect her to know the inherent value of something. But you CAN expect her to follow a clearly stated, repeated, well-known rule. If you haven’t had such a rule surrounding your jewelry (or closet, or anything in your bedroom or whatever) til now, establish it.

It sounds careless not purposeful. Personally would give her some grace for the first time, establish CLEAR rule and write it down somewhere, and punish her in the future if it happens again.  (If you’ve had a clear rule that she understood and violated, then different story, go ahead and punish.)[/quote]

This is good advice. I would also establish a specific consequence ahead of time and then implement it every time she breaks the rule until it changes her behavior. Losing her phone for a week seems like a lot to me. Research says that less time is more effective because by then end of the week the consequence is so far from the behavior, it’s not adding any benefit.[/quote]

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