Naughty boy, last week, took a K1 coin from the K2.20 coins I got ready and put in his school hat, since they are all 10toeas and one K1 coins and his little hands won't be able to hold them all, (we were in the car) to give to newspaper man on the side road on the way to sending him to school every morning - next day, bought newspapers again and was told I didn't give enough money !! It was pretty embarrassing....asked Adam, "What did you do with all the coins I put in your hat??!!"
With a cheeky smirk on his face, "I took the coin with the hole in it (K1) and put in my school shirt pocket!"
"Why did you do that?!!! It's supposed to be for the newspaper and Mummy told you to give ALL of the coins to the man!"
"I just wanted the coin to go to the candy shop in school, Mummy!"
Next day, his teacher told me they found K1 on the floor of the classroom and when asked whose it was, Adam claimed it and when I asked him what he did with it later, he said he lost it!!! SIGH!!! THEN....he remembered..he put it in between the classroom bible!! Go figure..safest place in the world!
Naturally, we wanted to teach him a lesson, so that afternoon, David & I took him to Gordon's police station. He was bawling his eyes out! Made all the usual promises never to do it again. So that's the end of it, we thought!!
Wish I could post the video I took of him at the police station but the movie size is just way too big to be posted here. Just yesterday (5March), after sending him to school and I was leaving his classroom, one of his classmates came over to me and dobbed him in.
His school requests that we put in some coins daily to help the needy and poor so everyday before I leave him, I always ask him to take a coin out of my purse and give to his teacher who then takes out a box to put the coins in. I always made sure he gives the coins to his teacher and they in turn have been told any coins found on him is to be taken from him.
Anyway, the little girl told me, "Adam took coins out from the box and was playing with them!!"
Ok, so I went back into the classroom and asked him if that's true. He admitted it - again, took the money to go to the candy shop..doesn't get it inside his head, he's not allowed to go there by himself (it's the school canteen/tuckshop that also sells candy) unless the teacher takes him and his teachers have been told he's not given any money by me to buy candy!
"How many coins did you take, Adam?"
"Only one"
By this time, a few curious classmates had gathered around the guilty boy.
A different girl this time, "No, he took 3coins and he was playing with them." He denied it so very loudly and insisted it was only ONE.
"What did you do to the coins you took, Adam?"
"I threw them out the school gates!!!!!!!!"
"WHY??!!"
"Because then Mummy will not see that I have the coins to go to the candy shop!!"
GRRRR!!!!! Lose the evidence, how clever!!
His teacher came in just then, got told off, "Teacher will not be happy with you, Mummy will not be happy with you and our friend there will not be happy with you" They pray in a corner every morning so Adam knows who the friend is. I told Adam to apologize to his teacher for stealing money meant for the needy and poor and he was his usual acting self..cry in self preservation - I think his teacher is not on to his crocodile tears just yet.
Went back home, told David, since he had some errands to do that day, he picked Adam up. While driving home, David gave him 2choices - go to police station again or come home and get punished by writing "I WILL NEVER STEAL MONEY EVER AGAIN" ; silly boy don't want either and way ahead, David saw a police car and told him a story about having his police friend just waiting further down the road and he's just waiting for David to signal for him to stop and take Adam; when Adam saw the police car, he was scared and bawling his eyes out, pulling David's shirt, saying no, he'll be good, never do it again...same old story..and YES!! He will come back and do his punishment of writing the sentence.
When they both came back, Adam was sniffing and trying to invoke my sympathy but I didn't ask him what's wrong as I guessed it must have something to do with his 'stealing'.
Anyway, he changed out of his school stuff and took a piece of paper and started writing..next thing I know, he was asking me, "Mummy, how do you spell WILL?"
David was surprised and pleased at his initiative as he was actually preparing a piece of paper with the sentence "I WILL NEVER STEAL MONEY EVER AGAIN" so he can just copy it 10x.
Well..initially we said write 20x but just the 10lines took Adam almost 3hours..figured that's punishment enough as he keeps yawning..boredom..haha!
So was what he did cheeky? naughty? funny?? I don't know..I just hope he's learnt his lesson!!
