Has the world gone mad with parents who can't say no?!

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Friend on FB child has broken a favourite toy post along the lines of "why oh why are there no toy shops open" (child does not have SEN) cue posts of this shop that shop is open, oh no what a disaster etc.

AIBU to think this is fucking CRAZY?!

Oh dear DC you have broken your favourite toy maybe be a little more careful next time.

Not let's rush out like it's a fucking emergency and buy you another immediately.

AIBU - or as a parent of (eldest) now 17 am I just very out of touch?!

I am guilty of this I'm afraid. My DS 2 at the time lost Iggle piggle (teddy) nanny had brought him as a new born. We ran out to get a new one ASAP.

However if he had been 7/8 then no way would we have done x

This child is 9.

Jeez! YANBU.

She'll enjoy the teen years!

Broken toys are evidence that you should play nicely. This was the rule I grew up with yet DH and I are apparently borderline abusive for saying "that's a shame" when something gets broken. I don't understand what changed.

I remember I bought my DD a doll for Xmas when she was 3 or 4 and it was called Sara I think and did somersaults.

She LOVED this doll and within weeks if getting it she was playing with her and I think very accidentally snapped an arm or leg off and was devastated.

We consoled her but did not consider replacing it.

I asked her (now nearly 15) if she remembered that - she didn't but she has never broken a treasured toy since that I can remember.

The parents are making a rod for their own back

. I guess with 24 hours supermarket shoppimg, people are more blasé about shop,opening hours.

I wouldn't rush out and buy a new toy. I may replace it later, if it's a favourite toy, but not straight away.

Whether it got replaced or not would depend on the circumstances - e.g. Child trip of the cat and dropped it - would be replaced, child wasn't being careful or took a strop then in wouldn't be replaced.

In the first scenario then the replacement would be purchased at a suitable opportunity, not trying to find an all night toy shop!

I think there are far too many people, not just parents, that can't say no to children. I sometimes wonder if I am too harsh or too soft but think probably the fact that I can't decide means that I am somewhere in the middle :o

that was meant to say "child tripped over the cat..."

Ds2 lost one of his favourite soft toys a few weeks ago, we retraced our.steps but it was gone :(.
However, I told him he needs to learn to be more careful! I might replace it for him next time.we go to London, or he might have to replace it himself

The world has indeed gone mad. If you mean by 'the world', the people who populate it. I think madness happened the exact day we decided that trees were not the best option for our intelligence and began walking on two feet full time. Every generation becomes a little more sensitive to certain issues while, in my experience, tuning out their own flaws. Is it responsible to allow children to have all they wish at the moment they wish it? Doesn't that wish fulfillment teach them that caregivers and parents merely exist to serve them and not teach them? I've heard the arguments of parents who want to give their children everything they didn't have or just to give them the best life possible. The question becomes, however, is the best life one of privilege? Or is the best life the life where one learns to cooperate, earn rewards and give in kind what is given? The answer doesn't change with each generation because we live in a society. Society works because we work together. That fact doesn't change regardless of how many generations pass.