Soldier you approach it like that and your children will only rebel and give you the opposite of what you want, or reflect all of that negative energy back at you x10. Oh she heard it thats for sure. She now understands more than ever how wrong it is to go into my purse and take anything, ever. She said she was afraid to ask daddy (who I found out was in the room at the time) because she was "shy", meaning she knew she would be told no. So she also was explained to how we have to tell her no for a reason sometimes. She didnt have a clue how much money it was and once I explained that it was A LOT of money and asked her what would happen if that was the money to buy us dinner. She realized then we wouldnt have dinner and started to cry. We also took the stuff back to prove the point of you cant have things you didn't have permission for. She got the point. :) But it was an interesting afternoon to say the least. Now the school, yes it is a smaller school. And our last name is supposedly hard to pronounce so everyone remembers it lol He told me she brought it in a zip lock baggie so he wasnt sure. (Little smarty pants knew to do that because thats how I send her lunch money lol) Its still not an excuse to believe a 6 year old would be allowed to carry that much money, much less spend it. She did ok with 3 books, but the rest was crap that would make anyone in their right mind question it. An $11 stuffed animal, a $9 address book, a $5 mini notepad. Seriously. I let her keep a book I promised she would pick out if conferences went well. He refunded the rest and then after I walked around looking at books for the other kids he had placed the stuffed animal in a bag and told me to keep it for my trouble, and that he wanted her to have it because she is such a sweetheart.