Choices: Is it Stealing If......?

Please see Part 1 and 2 of this series for more information regarding this book series. As mentioned in Part 1 and 2 Nicole O'Dell is an Author of a book series entitled "Scenarios." Teenagers will always be faced with decisions in their life and what they decide to do help determine what kind of people they will grown into. Unfortunately, making mistakes is part of life and sometimes those mistakes help us to be better people in the long run. We can't prevent our teens from doing wrong all the time, but how they react and we react to their wrong doings help them grown into more responsible people.

In this next book "Magna," we are introduced to Molly and her two friends Sara and Jes. The girls decide they want a job at this store in the mall, so that they can get "cool" clothes for cheaper prices. As it turns out only Molly is hired at the store and is a natural sales person. Her boss loves her and she winds up promoted to Assistant Manager in Training, including a raise. Molly's parents are so proud of her and Molly is proud of herself.

All is good until that one day when their school is having a Christmas dance and the girls want new dresses. Jes comes up with a plan that they could "borrow" the dresses from the store, keep the tags on them and return them to the store the next day. She tries to convince Molly by saying that the store loans dresses to people all the time and they wouldn't be "stealing" them they would just be "borrowing" them for a night. The plan is set for when Molly's boss is not in the store and the other worker is on her dinner break. They bring in a bag, go in dressing room and take the dresses that they had already picked out and tried on days before.

Now you are placed in the choice section. What do you want her to do? Do you think the plan is not really stealing and no harm will be done? Or do you want her to do the right thing and not risk her job? I have found each of these books so far so enjoyable that I can't put them down until I see the outcomes. Same as in Part 1 and 2 in this series, I will not want to give out what happens you will need to order your own copy today and make your own choice.

What do you think your teen would do? Do you think that your teen has enough common sense and knows the differences when placed in a position like this? When faced with a major temptation and having the freedom, such as Molly had in this book working in a store with great clothes and access to money would your teen be tempted to do wrong? Do teens really comprehend right and wrong when dealing with peer pressure at the same time? What is right and wrong is something we start at a very young age for our children. Do we continue to enforce this and discuss this as the years go on when the consequences of right and wrong become more severe?

Each of Nicole O'Dell's books exhibit excellent "Scenarios" of situations our teens very easily could be faced with. She creates the perfect setting in each of these must read books. The people feel real, the situations they are placed in are completely realistic ones that our teens could face and the choice outcomes are believable in each book. This would be a great project to do with your teens, have your teen read each book; you read each book and then together discuss the choices the teen can make. This is a great way to open lines of communication and share something with your teen.

This was originally published on Examiner.com
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