How to deal with a klepto kid?

You one of those people who think a good ass whooping is wrong and cry child abuse when you see a mother slap the hand of her little brat kid?

To yours and my surprise, the little shit actually respects my girlfriends father more than anyone else because of these ass whoopings.

I'm at this thing 12+ hours a day, he has no way to get to it and do any of that shit, and he knows if he even TOUCHES my computer, I'll pinch the tips of his fingers with a pliers until he looses all feeling in them.

Unfortunately that's the only thing he listens to me about, my work computer.

That is pretty fair

I like the idea of taking one shoe. If he has many pairs of shoes take one of his favorites. Do not return it under any circumstance. Next time he does it, take one from the next pair.

When he has to start wearing mismatched shoes to school the shame might start getting to him. If the school calls tell them why. Nothing says his shoes have to match.

Good idea.

simple give him a good ass kicking then smash one of his hands really bad. enough of the pussy shit with these kids.

The ass kicking may work, but I'm pretty sure smashing his hands would land me in jail... I need to be in the mob, that way I can just do it every day!

Telephone books are such handy items if willing to go that route.

Do they still do the Scared Straight type programs?

sounds like a kid who needs a good serious asskicking.

You know what's even more fucked up? He stole something from me and destroyed it, I took the CD tray out of his 360 (which he already had torn apart and voided the warranty from Microsoft) and told him until he either worked the price off, or paid me for it, he'd get it back. His crazy mother come over flipping out on him and us, and wanted it from me, I told her not until he works it off, or she gives me $80, which I knew she couldn't do because shes broke as a joke, and lives off my girlfriend's father's pay check, and she started throwing punches at me, hitting me 4 or 5 times until I got sick of it and just smashed it saying "He destroys my shit, I destroy his".

Pretty much what I'm saying is he deserves a good ass whooping, it would help, but you try to discipline him and his worthless mother who doesn't even take care of him, flips out on you, so actually doing anything physical is out of the equation.

It's sad, because it would be so much easier doing like candyflip said earlier and just tell him to get fucked and find a new place to stay, but the kind person in me just says no, it won't help anything.

Hoping so... My nephew is 11 and it worked for him at 8. This kid just turned 13 in February.

There's a big difference between a mother smacking her child.
Hitting a child so frequently and hard that you break a construction tool during the process?

You tell me what the difference is.

If the kid respects his grand dad, get his grand dad to help talk / punish him.

I'm not saying it would be easy to toss him out, or that I could even do it myself in this situation.

But sometimes, something extreme needs to happen for shit to sink in. A few nights in someone shitty group home or juvi might have him rethinking what he does.

Scared Straight worked on a few of the neighborhood kids who got busted breaking into someone's house.

Thats pretty sound advice, especially about the "Scaring" thing.

I was into stealing shit, not for the shit just because it was a rush.. It's unexplainable for those who have the bug, you're sitting there trying to be self contained and composed while your hands are trembling and on the inside you're paranoid and nervous. You make your way out and the feeling is euphoric..

But I grew up.. And I feel I turned out to be a well educated and articulate young man. Hell, I don't even surpass the speed limit, lol.

I think what needs to happen is you need to play what baddog said, tell him how it's going to leave him untrusted, if he's old enough to reflect on that maybe he'll see he's not growing into the man he wants to be.

Yeah, and when I was young my father stuck his steel toed boot up my ass and guess what, I never cocked off to him again, and you know what? I thanked him when I grew up for not being such a pussy and giving me what I deserved.

That's the problem with kids these days, so many whiny ass bitch kids grew up and became social service workers and got it so that if you even slap your kid jokingly you could lose them for child abuse, thus caused today's children to grow up and not respect authority and become what you see.

P.S. I'm 24 years old, so I'm not an old bitter man, I just think the laws about child abuse these days are retarded and make the problem with today's youth, not combat it.