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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real issue is: what example do you set for your impressionable child? The answer is: when we destroy someone else’s stuff, we take responsibility for that. (Or do y’all want your kid to see you arguing the fine points about how close the phone was to the pool? Oy.)[/quote]

Actually I think most people who leave their phones in dangerous places (like on the side of a kiddie pool) don't expect others to replace it. They know they were making risky choices. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

NP.  You contradict yourself.  You taught your daughter the consequence of her putting her towel in the pool - now it's wet.  Why wouldn't you teach her the consequence of throwing someone's phone in the pool?[/quote]

NP.  Are you dense? The toddler feels the consequence of the wet towel when the toddler goes swimming and comes out and wants a towel but finds it wet.

What consequence does a toddler comprehend from her mother paying out a couple hundred bucks?

I feel like this could go either way and both parties have some culpability. I would probably have offered some money but been annoyed if they took it. [/quote]

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