It's understandable that you would not want to embarrass the mother or get involved, but that child is still learning what's right and wrong and how other people react to his actions. By allowing him to get away with a stranger seeing him shoplift, you are teaching him that strangers will not get him in trouble for what he does- in other words, he'll think it's okay to do things that his mother or other authority figures would scold him for so long as they're not around.
Now, whether you care about that is up to you- I certainly wouldn't. Hah, I'd probably encourage his shoplifting for fun.
I didn't do anything to stop a shoplifter when I saw him steal...
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It's understandable that you would not want to embarrass the mother or get involved, but that child is still learning what's right and wrong and how other people react to his actions. By allowing him to get away with a stranger seeing him shoplift, you are teaching him that strangers will not get him in trouble for what he does- in other words, he'll think it's okay to do things that his mother or other authority figures would scold him for so long as they're not around.
Now, whether you care about that is up to you- I certainly wouldn't. Hah, I'd probably encourage his shoplifting for fun.