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I'd start feeding a child like that everytime he visits. I'll never forget when I took a bunch of boys to the grocery store to pick up snacks and breakfast for a sleepover. I overheard one of the boys worrying that I was spending all of my money---as if $20 worth of food was extravagant. After that, I invited him to lunch/dinner with us whenever he was visiting. I'm not saying that this particular boys parents were purposely not feeing him properly, but there are many children in the United States that go to bed hungry due to poverty.
Chances are hopes because there are a lot of programs to make sure poorer families esp ones with kids eat. Generally any parent that is allowing their family to go hungry isn't feeding them properly.
Chances are hopes because there are a lot of programs to make sure poorer families esp ones with kids eat. Generally any parent that is allowing their family to go hungry isn't feeding them properly.
It's a shame that people assume impovershed children are taken care of by programs. But I agree that usually the parents are being neglectful. In the case of the boy I described, his mother was an alcoholic and she was neglecting him. He smelled. His clothes were filthly. I taught him how to use our washing machine so he could wash his own clothes at home. He was about 10 at the time.
It's a shame that people assume impovershed children are taken care of by programs. But I agree that usually the parents are being neglectful. In the case of the boy I described, his mother was an alcoholic and she was neglecting him. He smelled. His clothes were filthly. I taught him how to use our washing machine so he could wash his own clothes at home. He was about 10 at the time.
No i don't assume programs are, but i assume parents should be . You made quite the difference to that little boy too hopes . Do you know whatever happened to him?
Little thieves grow up to be adult thieves if they do not reap the consequences of their actions. In a similar circumstance I would have no hesitation contacting the parents and explaining why the child was no longer welcome to come to my home or play with my child. Parents have a right to know what their kids are doing when they are a guest at someone else's home especially when it is socially unacceptable behavior.
Teach your children well.
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I don't get all these comments about not telling the parents. We're way too soft on kids these days. If I had stolen money from a friend's house, I would have gotten the belt. But guess what? I wouldn't have done it again. By letting these kids off, they're learning they can get away with it. They're not welcome in your house anymore? Fine...they'll just go to someone else's house and steal from them.
I can't imagine my parents would ever let stealing go unpunished, and I wouldn't either. Obviously if they're that scared of their parents whooping some ass, the parents should be told. Maybe the ass whooping will be effective then, and they will no longer steal!
By not having them punished by their parents it is teaching them they can pretty much do whatever they please and not have to fear parental retribution.
No i don't assume programs are, but i assume parents should be . You made quite the difference to that little boy too hopes . Do you know whatever happened to him?
When he was 13, he moved in with his father, who lived in an impoverished neighborhood in a nearby school district. By 15, he was living on his own and sold drugs to support himself. He remained a serious student at school and is in his first year of college now. He's going to be okay.
I'm not understanding the whole black/white thing. It sounds like the OP thinks that if he calls the parents they are going to cry racism and say you are accusing their child because he is black. If you are met with that response, I'd simply say, "No, it's not because he's black, it's because I saw him steal the money."
The OP is assuming that because the child is a black refugee that he is not well off. I grew up not well off by any stretch but I always had food and bare necessities. I stole $5. out of a friend's mom's purse when I was very small and felt like I was rich when I bought whatever I did with it. After that, I felt sick about it but was too afraid to tell the mom or my own parents because I had spent it. I still remember it to this day and feel like dirt because I did that.
In any case, unless the OP knows for a fact that the child is starving and stealing to survive, there are too many assumptions being made here. The kid can have all of his needs met at home and still feel like he's doing without because he doesn't have any fancy, luxury items and thus he begins to steal stuff.
I would call the parents. If he's not stopped at a young age, he will continue to steal and he'll find himself in real trouble one day.
lol - Here, they are about $6/person. I thought that was HIGH In COS, it was like $3.50 and in Albuquerque the new releases were around $6, but there was a dollar theater if you were willing to wait a couple extra months.
Even our dollar theater now charges $1.50.
I saw a movie in Orange County Ca recently and it cost me $13.50!
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. You made quite the difference to that little boy too hopes 
. Do you know whatever happened to him?
In COS, it was like $3.50 and in Albuquerque the new releases were around $6, but there was a dollar theater if you were willing to wait a couple extra months.
