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Originally Posted by baddog
Speaking from experience, I don't think you can really "scare" him into stopping. What you need to do [if you plan on sticking around with her that is] is get it through to him that no one is ever going to trust him.
You can emphasize the point by telling him "no" whenever he asks for anything that requires even the slightest bit of trust.
I remember when I was a kid, they always tried to scare us into not doing "evil things." To be honest, that just tempted me more.
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Yeah I've been doing that also, he asks me all the time to borrow a 360 game of mine, and I always say no, just to find that he's just taken it anyway after we've gone to sleep, and not only taken it, but scratched the shit out of it to the point that it freezes halfway through the game.
I've kept an eye on all the games and shit he stole and ruined and I tallied up how much it costs to replace and I make him clean the house and do stuff for us to repay it, but that doesn't help because I always see shit of mine in the basement hidden under the couch or in dark corners.
Hell it's gotten to the point where my girlfriends dad has beat his ass with a cement scraper until the metal handle snapped for taring apart a direct tv receiver box to get the hard drive out while he was waiting for the box to be delivered by ups to send it back to direct tv, yet he still does this shit.
I think the only way to do anything would be to make him realize what happens when he gets older and gets caught doing this shit.
He's 13 by the way, just turned.
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Originally Posted by alias
Steal his shit, see how he likes it.
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He doesn't care, half his property is stolen from someone somewhere, he just thinks "oh well, I'll just go steal it again from someone else"