I know a child about 7 y.o. who suddenly decided to pick up the “hammer” you tenderise meat with and hit her Mum on her arm. She thought it might be broken so she went to the family Dr. The Dad stayed out in the waiting room with the children. The Dr. called the girl in and gave her a good talking to, including the fact that she could have broken her Mum’s arm and that she wouldn’t have been able to cook her food. She never did that again but a couple of years later she started stealing things, including a vase off the teacher’s desk. After the school incident they called the Police and asked if they took her down to the Police Station was there an officer there who would talk to her about the fact is was the wrong thing to do and what would happened if she did it again and somebody called the Police to go and collect her.

Three year olds are a nightmare!

She didn’t so much call th police on him as ask them to help. And yes, I’d do this. It’s jst a personalised Kenny Koala lesson, really…

A good idea so long as it doesn’t take away from other police work.

Wow, that the police took time for this (while the wee boy didn’t even break the law) ! Good that they’re open for such things.
My 8 year old has a reactive attachment disorder with symptoms as compulsive stealing (daily), lying and destroying items. We’ve been on the point already that we thought about calling the police, to see if they could explain her some things, but so far haven’t done it. Trouble in her case is that you want to give as little as possible (negative) attention to her behaviour and stay as neutral as possible. But sometimes i fear that if she doesn’t change her behaviour she’ll end up in juvenile system.

The poor mum! Good on the police for community work during a quiet time. Good on mum for going to the police station and for everyone educating her child. A wonderful and happy outcome for everyone.

Yes that is a good idea, my Dad actually did this to me when I was little. Not from running away but from being naughty and I never did the naughty thing again. It does sink into their heads as it did mine.

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  Good to read about another story of this working. Positive police stories are needed and show their work is in helping the community too. Glad the lesson stayed with you when you were little and beyond.

I didn’t think the police would have time to do this,good on them!

It was amazing that the police officer listened to the woman and wanted to help her out. A great sense of community. And if the little boy now understands, it’s just great. 🙂

Before reading the whole story, I was thinking it was a waste of already undermanned police force, then I realised they went into the station, good outcome, whatever works for ya ay lol

personally I think that was a great outcome and little Lachie has learnt a good lesson by taking to the police , when one of my brothers was about 8 I think he took some money out of mums purse so she took him to the police station and they told him had to be locked in the cell for an hour it was so scary for all of us and he never stole again so I think its a great idea getting the police involved

I don’t think I could justify wasting their time in this way …..

Great community work from the Police. Hopefully the little fella listens to his Mum and doesn’t run away again.

There might have been better ways to handle this, but at least little Lachie learned a lesson.