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Sorry man. Hopefully, if nothing else, it's a strong lesson for your boys on being responsible with your belongings. If that lesson can successfully be learned here, it will be worth well more than $1200
I blame capitalism. There is so much crap out there today that is just low quality junk.
The beautiful part is you can easily convince the insurance company that the kids accidentally started the fire.
The large Lego sets look cool but we have yet to actually keep one together after a few days. My oldest got the huge Simpsons house set a few years ago (long story but amazon sent it to grandma in error, let her keep it), he put the house together, it looked cool. I came back an hour later and he's now made multiple sheds and other assorted designs from it. We decided right then that we'd never but another large set. He has bought a few with his own money, but those don't stay together either.
No offense, but you're creeping into "bad parent" territory here...
I have failed.
Don't beat yourself up. Have them pay for replacing the window. Teach them about responsibility. My kids don't have nice clothes shoes or toys. They still do stupid crap. Last year they went to get the mail and stopped st the house near the boxes and threw rocks at the guys windows not knowing he works from home. He called me up before they even got home. Thankfully they didn't break anything but they do stupid crap. All of them.
Did any of you have to suffer through the Darth Vader Transformer Lego Death Star a few years ago? All that work, all that anticipation, & it's appeal lasted for about a week
Ya. He called me this morning to thank me for putting it together while he was sleeping. I got home to find it in 3 pieces. It wasn't as bad as I thought. My wife said he "carried it around very carefully" while playing with it - but it seemed to fall apart when he put it down. I told him that it was Superman's fault as he was standing on top of the cockpit when I got home tonight. He told me Hulk rode around on top of it a few times too. Damn superhero types!
Never had to work with that yet - but I did have to go through the robot/lego things. I forget what they were called, but they didn't do much more than swing an axe or switch heads/skulls.Did any of you have to suffer through the Darth Vader Transformer Lego Death Star a few years ago? All that work, all that anticipation, & it's appeal lasted for about a week
No joke, it sits on my office desk with a Peyton Manning Lego guy that is either getting it in the butt or giving it in the butt, depending on who was the last to screw with it. Also :nokids:Did any of you have to suffer through the Darth Vader Transformer Lego Death Star a few years ago? All that work, all that anticipation, & it's appeal lasted for about a week
This is something I imagine a lot of us have envisioned doing, but would never in a million years actually act on that impulse. That had to be mortifying for everyone.
Later that night he apologized to me, and the next day he tried to call his sister to apologize, but they never answered and after probably 10 calls over the entire day he just texted them an apology and told them he ordered her another jacket online and it should be there in a few days. He just hates Christmas, when we dated and first got married and had no kids I used to joke with him and call him Scrooge or the Grinch. Since we have had a child though I can now see the stress on his face every year from just after Thanksgiving until after Christmas is over. I have only recently noticed that the 1st day back to work after Christmas he leaves early for work, and he is always right on time normally, and when he gets home from work that day he is happy and back to normal.
How nice of your husband to set such a great example of the appropriate way to act for your niece and daughter.
Meh. His behavior was 10x's more justified than hers. Not saying it was the best way to handle it, but if the sister is raising a monster I'd rather he go a little nutzo on her in her youth than watch the rude awakening she would get as a young adult. A glimpse into the real world is a good thing for kids from time to time.
