She turned in her own kids!

Maybe this is one of the reasons why I don't have kids. I wouldn't know what to do in some situations. I don't think I'd be able to turn my kids in, but I should would punish them! I bet her kids learned their lesson this way. My parents did something similar. Well they didn't turn any of us in to the cops, but my older sister used to get arrested a lot. My dad started refusing to bail her out of jail. He told her she needs to pay for the things she does wrong and can't expect him to always take care of the problem. It took her some time (she's a bit dense) but she stopped doing crimes and stopped going to jail. In fact she's turned her whole life around and is a pretty good person these days!

I say good for her. She is doing right by her children teaching them that what they did was wrong & that whenever we do something wrong we have to take the punishment that comes along with it. I remember when my sister & I were kids, my sister took a candy bar from a grocery store that we were shopping in at the time. My Mom didn't realize that she had taken it until after we left the store. As soon as she saw what my sister did she marched us right back into the store & made my sister go up to the cashier & admit what she had done as she handed back the candy bar that she had attempted to steal. My sister never stole anything ever again after that.

Though it breaks my heart,yes I will surely do. I admire the mother who turn her kids to the cops after watching the video and recognizing her kid/s. That's the best thing to do. I will let my kid/s pay for their wrongdoings.

It would be hard, but I would do the same thing. Allowing children, of any age, to get away with stealing. Allowing them to get away with it is telling them that it is okay. There are consequences for actions, and this way they are learning it young, they are in for less trouble later on.

I have a daughter who started stealing candy when she was only about 8. I scolded her but that was it. As time went on she started getting in to trouble at school and then with the law. I made excuses for he and covered up a lot of things. This went on to her early adult hood. I just did not have the heart to turn her in. Then I finally woke up and realized I was doing her no favors. I turned her in more than once and I got to were I would not go to the police station to pick her up. She thought I was a terrible mother but she finally started straighting up. She now realizes what I done was for her own good. It best to teach them right from the start that breaking the law is unexceptionable and you won't put up with it. Have a Blessed Day

That would be very difficult. I think if my child was always getting into trouble then I apparently cannot control their actions and I would probably have to do the same thing although it would break my heart...

I don't blame the woman one bit for turning them in. I would do the same if it was my own child too. She has already put us through enough here anyway and she has no respect for us or anyone else for that matter so I would not waste a second to tunr her in. Right is right and wrong is wrong and they should be punished for their crime.

I'm not a mother yet, but I probably would do the same thing, simply to teach my kids a lesson. I'd be more interested in them turning out right than saving them from embarrassment once. Of course, I'm hoping they wouldn't break the law at all in the first place.

depends on the situation or the gravity of what she did. i might not if it is the first time i saw her or him do something against the law. but if it is repeated, my child has to learn the lesson.

For me for his good why not so that he make trend to not do it again.

Oh that's a hard one. You don't want your children to be in trouble, but if they don't learn now, they might learn the lesson in a much more horrible way later on. I clap for the actions of this mother - she had the guts to do the right thing. If she as a mother had let the theft go, she would have done a disservice to her children. She would have shown them that stealing is ok.

That is really difficult thing for a parent to do especially for a mother. I, myself cannot do that. She is a rightful person...but a bad mother?

I would possibly turn in my kids for stealing, especially if they had done it before. Of course you can always work something out with the owner, like paying the costs of the stolen merchandise, putting a good scare into your kids, but avoid police charges. Maybe the kids weren't listening to the parents and this was her last hope to keep them out of further trouble? Sometimes yahoo news articles never give all of the information to the reader.