Parents often ask this question and immediately answer it themselves - bad friends, classmates, company, etc. At the same time, they always emphasize: “We didn’t teach him this, we have a decent family!” From early childhood, we instill in our children that lying is bad, you can’t take someone else’s, and we demand that the child follow these rules, but... You are probably familiar with the situation: dad comes home from work and proudly hands out pens, pencils, rulers, erasers to the children, hands his wife a brand new package of office paper and to his wife’s question “where from?” replies that at work they handed out “office stuff” and he managed to get it in excess of the norm. The wife will also praise the “breadwinner.”))) As our famous humorist says, “A Russian man does not steal, he compensates.” Or here's another situation. The phone rings in the apartment and the mother, wanting to avoid an unpleasant conversation (for example, with a friend), asks the child to answer. The child picks up the phone and clarifies who is calling, while repeating the caller’s name out loud. Mom decides that she doesn’t want to talk now, so she makes “scary” eyes and shows with all her gestures that she is not there. The child replies, “Mom’s not at home,” and hangs up. The mother thanks the child for the service provided. All. Lesson learned. You can tell your child as much as you like that lying and taking someone else’s property is bad, but if a little person sees the opposite, and this is followed by encouragement (for example, praise), then he will draw the appropriate conclusions. When psychologists want to talk about the benefits of training work, clients are often told the following: a person assimilates 20% of the information received by hearing, hearing + vision allows one to assimilate 30% of the information, hearing + vision + practical application (try to do it yourself) gives 90% of information assimilation. Agree, both stories described above are “tempting” for good training sessions. Of course, you should not discount the influence of your environment, friends and other companions. But I would like to quote the words of the Russian classic I.A. Krylova “Why should godmothers work? Isn’t it better to turn around for yourself, godfather?” Awareness in our education!