If parents notice that their child steals, they very badly keep the calm and show excessive concern in this problem. Often they connect theft with the omissions in education. Or on the contrary, they perceive it as predisposition of the child to theft and consider that their kid dishonors everything family. Actually everything on so is terrible, it is worth thinking over the purposes which moved the child to steal only quietly.
It is possible to allocate several reasons of theft. It is conditional their three.
First, it can be desire to own a thing remorselessly. Such thefts are generally single and have no continuations or repetitions, but have the features. The age of the child as can steal both the preschool child, and the teenager concerns them. Also understanding of a bad act and impossibility to resist temptation belongs to features of such reason of theft. Well and, of course, this awareness of harm and creation of justifications to such act.
Secondly, the child can steal because of the psychological dissatisfaction. Often thefts are committed by school students of elementary grades. There is it because the child stole something insignificant once, and nobody also attached significance to it. Then he understands that it is not so bad if nobody anything told it. Also the child can steal because of a psychological trauma or emotional coldness of the relations in family.
Thirdly, it is a lack of development of the child and a lack of his education. It is quite possible that your child steals things only to win someone's arrangement. For example, on this money he will buy sweets or just knickknacks to share with somebody. Such reason of theft says that the child wants to attract attention.
These reasons are major factors of emergence of theft. To avoid such incidents, it is necessary to pay attention even to the most insignificant losses and also the nobility where and how many money you have. It is extremely important that the child knew that money is earned only with work.