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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. This is going to be a long post but a lot of the posters seem to be reading my posts wrong, So here's a full idea of what happened. So this last friday, my son invited over 3 other kids to play the wii: The two twins who I'm going to call  A & B ,and the third child he invited that I'll call C. They went into his room and were setting up when DS realized he was missing a controller. DS came and told me, and I told them to alternate or do something else. They said they would alternate between players, and I left thinking they were fine. I went to the kitchen, which is on the other side of the house and started cutting vegetables. Meanwhile, A & B were arguing over who got the controller. DS was trying to calm them down. I couldn't hear them because their door was closed and they were on the other side of the house. I started washing potatoes so I didn't hear A&B running to the study. DS followed A&B to the study to see where they were going, and when they went in the study, DS was missing them and was going to tell me when A knocked over the shelf. I paused washing the potatoes and ran in, checked them all for cuts, and called their parents.The entire time leading up to the incident, C had stayed in the other room. There you go.
Also, I just finished cleaning up. I salvaged all the glass birds so I'll try to find a special glue for glass to see if I can rescue them.[/quote]

Oh dear, OP. I fear you are making the classic mistake of a reasonable person, thinking that your clarifications will appease the crazies. It will not.

They will only come at you louder and longer about how you should have been in the room with them, should *never* have been all the way on the other side of the house where you couldn't adequately hear what was going on (the horror!), and how your whole house should be comprised only of blow-up furniture that can't break.

:roll:

At any rate, I think this thread has given you your answer...that there are parents like you (us) who feel that children should be accountable for their actions and that even "accidents" caused by 11-year-old boys who are being careless should have consequences. And then there are parents like the one of the twin boys who will absolve their children of all wrongdoing and blame you for your unreasonable expectation that children should be expected to behave apopriately in someone else's home--and if/when they do not and something is broken...well that's obviously your fault for having them over and filling your home with breakable things. Sigh.

Now we know.[/quote]

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