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Look, if the owner of the phone is responsible for putting her phone in a safe place, the parent of the child is responsible for making sure that a two-year-old doesn't just pick up the phone and toss it.

While it may seem negligent on  the phone owner's part, this was not an accident.

2 year olds are not responsible enough for their actions to hold them accountable.

This is why parents are the proxy and sometimes we parents have to deal with the  actions of our kids  esp if we are not watching them.

If a child is not old enough to know better to not throw a phone support, that child is not old enough to be unsupervised in the pool area[/quote]

Exactly! I don’t know why this is so hard for people to understand.  And if I was the mom whose phone got thrown into a pool, I have insurance on my phone, and of course I would refuse the other mom’s offer to replace my phone. This is how it works.

For those that disagree with this logic, would you just tell the mom whose phone your child threw in the pool, oh, sorry, I guess you should take better care of your phone next time? Would you apologize? I’m not trying to be an asshole, I’m asking seriously how you would handle it if you don’t think your child or you are responsible for what happened. [/quote]

I think the phone owner is a moron for leaving a phone at the side of the pool.

If my child threw it in the pool, I would offer to pay, mostly just to keep up a good neighborly relationship (because I'm sure I'd see this person at the pool/around town again.)

I'd definitely think a LOT less of the phone owner if she accepted my money.   [/quote]

Seems reasonable.[/quote]

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