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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think when you have glass shelves, it’s just kind of risky, anyone could trip and fall and things would shatter and hurt people. Just doesn’t seem sensible. I feel bad for those boys for being blamed for an innocent childhood mistake. I bet they wish they’d never set foot in your house. I agree that your concern is mostly for your objects, not with the safety of the children or whether they might be feeling traumatized p. I’m sure that was very loud![/quote]

Let me guess, your kids are toddlers?[/quote]

Nope, my oldest is 10. I’m just against glass shelves of tschotkies I guess. I’ve heard a cupboard full of glassware crashing, and it’s quite alarming. [/quote]

Well, but you're sort of side-stepping the point of the story, aren't you? And that is that the glass shelving full of Tchotckes (whether you are "against" them or not) should not have been falling to begin with because the 11-year-old boys should know better than to run through someone else's home into an off-limits room while recklessly fighting over a video game controller to the point of knocking over the fragile shelf!

Was it an accident that they knocked over the shelf? Sure...to a degree, of course it was! They didn't go into the room with the intent to pull the shelf to the ground and destroy OPs things. But should they be held responsible for their bad judgment (fighting/struggling over possession of an object with their sibling and running through the house, entering a room they weren't supposed to be in and carelessly jostling each other over control of the remote such that they slammed into shelf and created this mess)--YES!!!

Haven't you ever seen old re-runs of the Brady Bunch? "Mom always says, 'Don't play ball in the house!'"  You break it, you buy it! They *should* feel a little traumatized that their rough-housing in someone else's home caused damage! And they should be mortified/embarrassed and feel ashamed enough to offer to pay off the damage. And if they don't feel it...then at the very least their PARENT should feel some sense of remorse on their behalf.
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