I broke something expensive not mine?!?
well my aunt and uncle with their 13 year old kid came today. (im 13 as well). and my cousin brought these mega expensive headphones (like 300$). and then i accidentally stepped on them. but noone knos that. when he realized they were broken he went to his dad (my uncle) who is super strict. the headphone were only one day old. then my cousin went against the will on the companys website (of the headphones) and typed in the problem and if he could repair it. he wrote that there was no pressure on it. but i accidentally put pressure on it by stepping on it! my uncle thinks my cousin broke it because he chaned those rupper things and it broke because the plastic was too fraile and tha my cousin put them on like whatever and not carefully. im scared that the company will find out ttat there was pressure on it like someone stepped on it. and none copuld have stepped on them before because they looked berfectly fine when he came here and we used them as well. i can't tell anyone! so don't tell me to tell my uncle. any other tips!? thanks in advance! o and the headphones were on atable with his ipad and my cousin went to the bathrom and i wanted to hide the ipad but the the headphones sagged on the floor and then i stepped on them...
If a kid breaks your expensive phone, how would you react?
It’s natural to get mad at the child. It’s natural for the level of anger to match the expense.But it’s a parent’s responsibility to think further ahead than a child. The responsibility for keeping things and your child rests with you. If you hand your child something, you are not passing the responsibility onto the child. It’s still your responsibility.Get a cheaper phone for now. (Previous generations of iPhones can be surprisingly cheap.) Get one of those big clunky shock proof cases for your phone. Get your child a cheap tablet. And a big chunky shock proof case.If the child is older and has shown they can be responsible, then they will feel bad. They know they broke your trust. They broke their own trust in themselves.When my child was growing up, it made life ever so much less stressful to have old furniture. I didn’t let my child trash it. It’s important to learn basic social niceties so kids can visit other homes. But if there was a spill, Oh well! If the cat threw up on it, Oh well! If it was used to make forts with, Cool!
I broke my moms very expensive headphones???! help!!!!!?
ok. so i was studying, cramming for my history finals in 7 hours, and listening to my ipod. i noticed that the sound suddenly sounded weird, different. i unplugged the headphones and then plugged them back in. it continued to sound not as good quality as it did. then i put on another song called "closer to the edge" by 30 seconds to mars. i immediately noticed that something was wrong. when the music played past the intro, i couldn't hear the singer. so at first i thought it was my ipod, but then plugged it into my laptop and went on youtube and played the song through the headphones, and it sounded like it did on my ipod. then i unplugged the headphones and listened to the song through my speakers nd it was fine. i have no idea what i did to the headphones. they seem perfectly fine but its messed up. i dunno what to do, but i do know that my mother will be pissed. please help me fix the headphones PLEASE!!!!
What should you do if a friend’s child breaks something expensive in your home?
You be gracious.If it was intentional, you work with your friend to help figure out and manage the challenges she's having with her child, or any conflicts between your kids that lead to a delibrate act.If it was an accident, you reassure the child that it's ok and accidents happen. We can pay attention and be more careful. The younger the child, the gentler you should be. You clean up the pieces and move on with the day.Your friend may or may not be in a position to replace the piece or compensate you. Don't expect her to, even refuse an offer because you're friends and a thing, even an expensice thing, is no big deal. Do everything to make her comfortable and not feel bad about. When we invite people into our homes, sometimes things get damaged--especially if we don't child-proof our home,by making it safe and putting expensive things away.
I tend to break things when I'm angry?
I tend to get angry easily, especially at home. I think my family knows the things that really tick me off. Today I got really mad, went outside for a walk, that didn't work because when I came inside I threw a stool and broke it (Yes I'm a girl) then my family kept asking me what was wrong, and I tried ignoring them before I flew off the wall in a rage of anger, but I finally yelled "Don't talk to me right now!" and I got yelled at for yelling which made me even more angry UGH. I used to just go into my room and scream but as I got older I started breaking thing. I broke my bedroom door off it's hinges because I was super mad, pushed over chairs, tables. It's like when I'm angry I'm not thinking about anything and don't realize what I have done until after I come out of my "rage phase" then I feel really stupid for acting like that. Is there anything I can do to change my behavior when I get super mad?
If you break something you borrow do you have to fix it?
Someone borrowed something expensive from me and returned it back broken. It will cost me quite a bit of money to fix it, I mentioned to them the price and they did not offer to pay or even to help pay. They did not apologize for breaking my item. I thought it was common courtesy, but was told by someone else that I am expecting too much and shouldn't have loaned it out if I didn't want it broken. Who is right?
What should I do with a kid who likes to break things?
Recognize that she’s doing this for a reason that seems good to her. She may be upset with the big change in her life. (Even if it’s better! Change is stressful.)Be close to her for now. Don’t leave her alone with things you don’t want her to destroy. Put breakable toys away from her reach. Only let her play with things you don’t want broken when someone is there to supervise.If she starts to destroy it, say, “Gentle.” Then give her something she can destroy. Keep a pile of trash around like cereal boxes, newspapers, milk cartons and so on. Help her find a a safe outlet for her impulses.You might also try wrestling with her or doing other physical things. She may have pent up energy or emotions. Doing a lot more physical activity could help release the feelings.While she isn’t explosive, she is impulsive and some of the ideas in Ross Greene’s book could be helpful.The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene PhD
Imagine you drop something and break it open at the grocery store. It's totally your fault, but worth $3. What do you do?
I would notify a store associate.I work in a grocery store. We don’t care if you accidentally broke something. Please tell us. The minor loss from the item being broken is much, much better for us to take than the potential loss if we aren’t informed and another customer trips or slips because of it. Making you pay for the product or otherwise punishing you would dis-incentivize you from reporting the new slip-and-trip hazard. We don’t want that: we’ll thank you and eat the loss, and then quickly clean up the mess, because that policy ultimately saves us far more money and hassle than we lose from accidental breakages.It’s not just balancing liability, though. It’s also about good customer service. We want customers to have good experiences in the store so that they want to come back. Most people already feel badly about breaking things, and they fear being embarrassed (usually more than they fear paying for it). Those are negative associations with the store, then, and we don’t want that. So a smile, a “thank you, don’t worry about it!”, and then carrying on like all is normal is the best thing we can do to earn that future business.Only once have I ever accidentally broken something in a store and been made to pay for it. It was a candle, in one of those little knick-knack stores. It slipped from my hands, hit the floor, and snapped in two. The store attendant, who I assume was the owner, was livid. As in, threatening-to-call-the-police levels of angry. Over a $5 candle.So I paid him, took my broken candle home for repair (because fixing a broken candle isn’t brain surgery) and never went in that shop again.Raising a fuss over accidentally broken retail product is bad customer service. It’s different, I suppose, if the item is particularly valuable… like a widescreen TV in Walmart or a car on an auto lot… but I wouldn’t know. I do know that when a customer using one of our motorized mobility carts ran into a display stack of Belvedere vodka we did not make her pay for it, despite the loss of 27 bottles and the cost of two employees taking two hours to clean it up. That cost us over $600, product and labor.Ultimately, we are more concerned with liability from having debris on the floor, more concerned with ensuring your future business, and more concerned with customers intentionally behaving badly (oh, the stories I could tell, but this is too long already to get into that!) to make an issue out of accidental losses, especially small ones.
It it normal to break things when you're angry?
NO