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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A pp here.  That is the one thing I dislike about DCUM.  OP relays that a kid broke into DS’s locked locker, unzipped his backpack and stole his iPod.  And folks jump on her for allowing her son to have an iPod, implying that the theft is somehow her fault. It kills me that folks act like they are parenting on a higher plane and that the rest of us are cave people for allowing our kids to take advantage of new technology.  Well, one of my kids got her jacket stolen from her locker at her private HS.  Well, I guess it is my fault for allowing her to wear a jacket to school.  LOL!!  [/quote]

I disagree that this is what is happening here.  Yes, no one should have stolen anything.  But the OP was mainly on here to ask whether turning a 7th grader over to the police is an appropriate response to a iTouch theft.  I think the posters highlighting the fact of a 12-13 year old sporting a $300 piece of electronics is in relation to the OP's poor judgment on wanting to press charges.  There is no live debate among academics that the frontal cortex of a child is different than that of an adult's - which is precisely why we don't charge children as adults, generally.  So, the OP's desire to treat this as a crime before recognizing this as a learning moment is pretty troubling, especially coming from a parent.  I think that is what the posters are zeroing in on, rather than "blaming the victim."

By the way, imagine if the shoes were on different feet.  If it were OP's child who had misbehaved, I imagine she would be going on and on about how this was something that could have been handled within the school system, and that the other parent overreacted by involving the police.

Really, OP - breathe a little.

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