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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if you are still around: it is possible your son didn't know that taking your money was considered stealing, like taking something from a store is stealing. I know I didn't understand that till I was about 10, and then when I was "caught" and it was explained that I was STEALING and a THIEF I was so mortified I wanted to die. I saw it more like sneaking a cookie. I didn't really understand that money was different from cookies, and while I knew I wasn't supposed to sneak cookies, my dad did it, and we all sort of giggled about it. But I knew taking a cookie from the store was STEALING. And seriously bad.

So...do you let your son dig in your purse for a granola bar, or a chap stick? Have a coin jar that change gets casually tossed into and taken out of? Have an open fridge policy, where what is in there belongs to the whole family? He may just not understand (though NOW he does) that money is weirdly different. It doesn't belong to the whole family, and taking it is different than taking a cookie.[/quote]

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