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[quote=Anonymous]What do you do when your child loses or breaks something "expensive" (relative to their income, not yours)? I mean due to carelessness, not accidents -- say losing glasses, retainer, borrowing your things and leaving them somewhere, breaking something fragile they shouldn't have been messing with... Kid gets an allowance and sometimes feeds pets or waters plants for neighbors, but if I asked to be repaid for these things out of that money they would never have anything to spend when out with friends. I've considered telling them to do extra chores to work it off, but I'm not sure that's appropriate. I also think there should probably be a different standard for things the child [i]needs[/i] where the risk of it being lost or broken is baked in. And yes obviously I am scaling way back on letting them borrow my things or use expensive fragile stuff without supervision! But I'm curious how other people deal with it.[/quote]
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