Daughter broke neighbours bike

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Basically as it says. Brand new bike which for some reason she jumped on when walking passed. No idea what she was thinking but it’s snapped something and seems can’t be fixed. I wasn’t aware until this morning when another neighbour mentioned it and gave me recommendations for where to go for a replacement.

Personally if it was me I’d never ask for a replacement and put it down to kids being kids. I have spoke to my daughter but she can’t explain why she did it . It’s totally out of character. AIBU not to buy a new bike?

Forgo the pizza and repair/replace the bike and your daughter will have to pay you back.

Yes, very unreasonable
You are responsible for your child - if she breaks it, you pay for it

How old is your daughter? Three. Or 13 or 23?
What do you mean by "jumped" on it?

Your child broke property belonging to someone else for no reason. Of course you are responsible for replacing it!

It's not kids being kids. It's criminal damage and the person whose bike it is now doesn't have one. You are responsible for replacing it.

Wouldn’t you be miffed if your bike got broken for no reason other than a random kid decided to jump on?

Of course you pay up!!!

Was the bike lying somewhere and she jumped on it or did she try to get on the bike? If it was deliberate you really should replace it, what age your DD?

No wonder your daughter has no respect for other people’s belongings. She is just like you!

Yes YABU, your daughter broke something that doesn’t belong to her, deliberate destruction of someone else’s property is not ‘kids being kids’. Unless you’re going to drop feed that she’s an adult, you as her parent are responsible for any damage that she causes so you need to pay to make it right.

Yes, how on earth did she jump on it hard enough to
break it?!

Are you actually serious? Your daughter deliberately destroyed someone’s property and you don’t think you should pay?? What a great life lesson to teach her

Even if it was an accident she should replace it - still her fault - certainly not the bike owner that broke it

Personally if it was me I’d never ask for a replacement

it’s not your brand new bike that has been mindlessly vandalised, so take the bike to a shop and find out for yourself if it can be fixed, pay for a replacement if not

Whether she meant to or not- she deliver jumped on someone else’s property and has broken it. Of course you should be replacing it. Using ‘kids being kids’ for deliberate destruction of someone’s bike I can imagine would not be your reaction if the item had been yours.

Christ on a bike! Of course you replace it.

Reverse?

or rage bait!!!!!

Of course its in your interest to think you shouldn't have to replace something your daughter broke through not fault of the owner. Poor kid having people like you and your daugher around them.

Be responsible or teach your daughter how to behave properly and you wouldn't be in this mess.

Kids being kids is knocking over a flowerpot whilst playing hide and seek. Deliberately jumping on someone else property and breaking it is being a destructive brat.

Are you joking? Let it replaced asap ffs.

Personally if it was me I’d never ask for a replacement and put it down to kids being kids

Lmfao!
As if...
Cop on to yourself, do the decent thing and replace the bike.

if it were me my child would be getting a stern talking to and the money for the replacement would come from your daughters pocket money and savings.

Disgraceful behaviour from her and you!

I agree but I wasn’t sure if the OP meant something like jumped on it with two feet to intentionally damage it or jumped on it as in having a go riding the bike. To jump on a bike where I come from could mean having a turn riding the bike.

More information required. How old is your daughter, when you say she jumped on it, do you literally mean she jumped up and down on it to damage it, or she jumped on it like to ride it. Where was the owner when this happened? Where were you when this happened?

Ultimately if the damage was fairly intentional (yes jumping up and down on an item is intentional for a child over about 3 who understands when we do that things break) then you are 100% responsible for a replacement.

I would double check myself whether the bike is fixable and I would be paying for that repair or a replacement bike and using my child’s savings/pocket money to do it, or cancelling an upcoming excursion or something as punishment for my DD and to save the money that would have been spent and put it towards the new bike.

Your DC can’t just go around damaging other people’s property for no reason and expect to walk away without paying for a replacement and with zero punishment.

What kind of person are you raising? If someone took a baseball bat to the windshield of your car “for no reason” would you expect them to pay for the repairs? Of course you would.

You appropriately punish your child now for their destructive behaviour so they don’t turn into an adult that destroys others property, that’s pretty basic parenting.

I’ll be honest, I have a kid and if someone made me aware he jumped on a bike and broke it I’d be so mortified I’d replace it immediately no questions asked, and I’d also work out a consequence for my kid - chores, withdrawal of something they love etc. Not to be harsh or super firm but just a lesson that teaches them you can’t just destroy other people’s things without consequence, kids or not. I appreciate your daughter doesn’t normally act this way but regardless she broke someone’s bike and if it was the other way around I suspect you’d appreciate an offer to replace it also.

This is one of those moments where you have a chance to teach her she can’t just do these things. It doesn’t have to be too harsh but it does have to be done. It’s our job to shape our little ones to know right from wrong.