This is a two year old. |
And what are you saying about that? My 2 year old was constantly noticing things I would prefer he hadn’t. |
This doesn’t seem to be getting through: has nothing to do with what the phone owner expects. It is about what is the right behavior to show the child. The right behavior is we broke it, so we take responsibility for it. |
OP wasn't about modeling good behavior. It was about money. Pay up |
Well, yeah. If you break something, you pay for it. Duh! |
The right behavior to demonstrate to a 2 year old?! My two year old has no idea phones cost money. She doesn’t really understand that anything costs money or that money is limited. She’s 2. Yesterday she walked towards the pool with her towel and a funny look on her face. I said DO NOT put that towel in the pool. She dropped it in the pool without breaking eye contact. I rung it out and explained that now she didn’t have a towel to get warm and dry because she soaked hers. She blinked and me and then sat down and switched her water shoes from the correct feet to the wrong feet and then asked me for apple juice. But sure, if it had been some idiot’s phone she would have learned a lifelong lesson by me paying for it. Do you even have kids? |
So your child is a model for every child? Yeah my child doesn’t act like yours. |
Most people don’t have $500-1000 to replace someone’s phone. I’m sure the mom was mortified. But it might be the difference between making rent that month or not. Sure, I’m an ideal world we all have enough and the mom of the kid offers to pay... but also the phone owner would be gracious and not accept. |
Here's an idea, take the towel before she puts it in the pool and tell her no. If she tried it again, time out or go home. That's why kids do that stuff. No means no. Sounds like a parenting failure if you didn't supervise your kid. |
+1 Your two year old is not learning a life lesson by you paying for it. |
And then you will graciously decline. I'm sure. |
I don’t really think you are qualified to give parenting advice. |
Parent of toddler offers to pay.
Phone owner declines the offer and pays herself. End. |
Np...why? Bc that poster gave good advice and showed you a better way? |
Your daughter is messing with you and you're along for the ride. The right thing to do here has nothing to do with Larla understanding what costs money and how much. 2 year olds are more than capable of grasping that we don't take or move other people's stuff. They are quite vigilant about this themselves, at times, so this is really not beyond their cognitive capacity. |