Yes I believe thats an appropriate response by your parents to stealing. Children need to learn that their actions affect other people otherwise they end up in jail. You should also feel guilty and bad when you do wrong to prevent you from doing this again. This is called compassion and its not optional. There are plenty of sociopathic people that will tell you all kinds of fairy tales that experiencing any type of feeling or bad feelings is bad. I feel sorry for people who take this path as it is not a good one. You should raise your kids to be people who are liked and are compassionate. Not people who have no guilt or shame. Those people are irresponsible and cowardly.