AIBU to make DS fix my clock??

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OK accidents happen I know. My little M&S clock looks like the After Eight clock.It was about £40, my mum gave me money for my 40th and I bought this.
DS caught it with his jacket and it fell.It has sat on the sideboard for 5 years so he knew it was there.
I didn't tell him off,as I said it was an accident.He didn't exactly jump to pick it up until I said to.
I wouldn't expect him to pay but would I be unreasonable to get him to spend a few hours of his half term glueing it back together? And I mean a proper job not just cackhandedly ?
DS is 11 yo.

YABU - accidents happen. Why not help him with it - if he's an 11 year old boy, he's unlikely to be able to do a really neat job, I know a lot of children struggle with things like that, especially boys.

Hmm I know I'm being a bit unreasonable. Thing is he was a bit blase at bedtime
"Why are you getting so worked up, it's just a cheap and nasty clock" he said.
Actually no,DS, its not cheap and nasty it is mine. £40 is £40. As I said earlier I wouldn't expect him to pay for it., it's just the fact he was so unfazed that it got broken.
The body of the clock is resin and its a few large pieces to repair.I just think it might focus him a bit if he has to take time out from his holiday time to mend it.

He has to place value on others possessions not just his own, how would he feel if it was something of sentimental value of his.

I would suggest he tries to repair it in his holiday dilligently and with patience.

YANBU to ask your ds to repair your clock - it sounds like a simple job and will teach him a valuable lesson that prized possesions, no matter hideous others may perceive them, are for long-term cherishing.

However, I would suggest you sit with him and let him work (and rework) how the pieces should fit together rather simply letting him at it with a tube of glue.

If the proposed adhesive is superglue IMO parental supervison is essential, and a pack of cheap thin plastic gloves may prevent the need for a trip to A&E which may prove fatal to the clock.

Yes I would sit him at the kitchen table and supervise esp with glue-though it'll be clear Bostick( or any other brand) rather than superglue.Don't want him glueing himself together.
This is the little urchin who found my travel alarm (broken, it fell downstairs) and took it to his bedroom to disect, to see how the parts fit together.So he has the manual dexterity to repair my clock( its only the body part thats broken not the actual working part)

I sound like a right clumsy git with clocks-the alarm clock was a couple of years ago and it was already broken!

Especially boys janeFonda?

Woodwork?

WTF!

YANBU. I agree with all posters above that our DCs have to learn to place value on things. And learning and respecting that something may not have huge monetary value, but sentimental.

And sorry OP, YANBU

Thank You all.I shall tell the firstborn Fruit-of-my-Womb that the MNetters have sealed his fate-unanimously

I think you are being a bit U BUT I know where you are coming from.

DCs just don't seem to care about our stuff and it is really hurtful.

chicletteeth, the boy in the OP is 11 years old. It is common for children of that age, and yes, especially boys, to be going through growth spurts so fast that the brain doesn't aways know where the extremities of the limbs are. Hence adolescents, especially boys, are notriously clumsy, so fine glue-work may well be difficult.

It's a biological point, not a political/gendered one.

I think it's a really good idea. It's not a punishment - that'd be unfair, it was an accident. It's just a way of getting him to think a bit more, and to learn that it's important to try and rectify a mistake.

YANBU. Learning that you have to rectify mistakes if you can is very important, as is learning that the value others place on items is more important than the value you place on them sometimes.

Definitely get him to repair the clock.