12-YO was irresponsible, will cost us thousands; appropriate consequence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the son was playing ball in the house and broke a $7000 vase. Mom always said, don't play ball in the house.

Honestly, without facts it is hard to answer the question. The more foreseeable the consequences, the greater the penalty. If you asked him to turn off the water in you vacation home, he forgot and a pipe ruptured causing damage, I could see how a 12 year old would not have foreseen the possible damage and I would have a hard time holding him responsible. If, however, he was tossing a ball in the house and destroyed a piece of art, I would expect him to foresee those consequences and I would want him to re-pay the money, no matter how long it took.

So, in short. If you think he should have known better, then hit him hard. But I would not make something up, like we can't go on vacation if it is not true.

Wasn't this a Brady Bunch Episode? Or did the ball hit Marsha's nose?

The kid just needs to get his siblings together, write a catchy song, choreograph a performance, and get some snazzy matching outfits. Then find a talent show to win that money back.

Wait, is that how they solved the vase problem?

[Anonymous]

Make him SELL the puppy on GoDaddy.com..... to Korea!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the son was playing ball in the house and broke a $7000 vase. Mom always said, don't play ball in the house.

Honestly, without facts it is hard to answer the question. The more foreseeable the consequences, the greater the penalty. If you asked him to turn off the water in you vacation home, he forgot and a pipe ruptured causing damage, I could see how a 12 year old would not have foreseen the possible damage and I would have a hard time holding him responsible. If, however, he was tossing a ball in the house and destroyed a piece of art, I would expect him to foresee those consequences and I would want him to re-pay the money, no matter how long it took.

So, in short. If you think he should have known better, then hit him hard. But I would not make something up, like we can't go on vacation if it is not true.

Wasn't this a Brady Bunch Episode? Or did the ball hit Marsha's nose?

The kid just needs to get his siblings together, write a catchy song, choreograph a performance, and get some snazzy matching outfits. Then find a talent show to win that money back.

Wait, is that how they solved the vase problem?

I thought it was how they solved the problem of Jan crashing her bike into the family portrait (commissioned by Mike for his and Carol's anniversary and hidden in the garage) because she wasn't wearing her glasses, but wiki tells me it was the later episode of how they solved the problem of not having enough money to pay for an engraved silver platter for their parents' anniversary (thus the name of the group, The Silver Plaaters). I knew an anniversary was involved, lol.

[Anonymous]

I am dying to know how the puppy caused $7k worth of damage. Did it eat a laptop and some iPads? And pee on the Turkish carpet??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am dying to know how the puppy caused $7k worth of damage. Did it eat a laptop and some iPads? And pee on the Turkish carpet??

If the puppy chewed up a good rug, that could easily be $7K, right there.

[Anonymous]

Have him wash the puppy in tomato juice.

Oh wait, that's what they did on the Partridge Family when the skunk got on the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this post if from up the road -- west baltimore.

Obviously, 12YO was handling the money on a corner... one of Avon Barksdale's corners... you know... slinging, hustling, touting...

Now, one of those dope fiends came and grabbed the cash stash, and DS, well, he wasn't fast enough to catch up with them. $7k gone! Boom.

You need to keep the young ones on the cash and the dope - the Knocko can't really lock them up.

OP, that is just the cost of doing business... call it overhead.

Namond should tell his mom it was Omar

[Anonymous]

OPs like this are so annoying.

[Anonymous]

If you have kids and dogs, you need less expensive furniture anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am dying to know how the puppy caused $7k worth of damage. Did it eat a laptop and some iPads? And pee on the Turkish carpet??

If the puppy chewed up a good rug, that could easily be $7K, right there.

Why would anyone with kids and a puppy have a 7k rug? The motto in our house is "this is why we don't have nice things." Maybe someday when we don't have pets/kids we will get to buy ourselves something nice lol.

[Anonymous]

Take some money out of his allowance and let him see what your consequences are. But I think you have to accept some responsibility as well if you're putting a 12 yr old in charge of something that could be that expensive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did he leave a faucet running and flood something?

OP here. Prefer not to be specific for privacy reasons, but something along these lines--it was a case of forgetting something--again, in a situation where under no uncertain terms he knew he had to be responsible about it.

$7k sounds like a lot for an abortion