DD15 smashed her phone last night in a temper. We’d had an argument (nothing massive, just the usual teenage attitude over being asked to come off TikTok and help with dinner) and she stormed off, then chucked her phone at her bedroom wall. It’s completely knackered now.
She’s now begging for a new one before school starts, says she “needs” it to stay in touch with friends. I’ve told her she can buy a new one herself using her savings, birthday money and wages from her Saturday job.
She’s not exactly thrilled. Says I’m being unfair and that none of her friends’ parents would make them do this. Apparently I’m the only one who’s “making their child suffer” (her words).
I told her if she’d dropped it by accident I wouldn’t expect her to pay for it, but she made the choice to throw it. I didn’t shout, I just said this is what happens when you destroy something valuable out of anger. Actions have consequences.
She’s now stomping around saying she’ll be “cut off from the world” and it’s “social isolation” (🙄).
AIBU for sticking to my guns on this? Or should I just give in and replace it for her?