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Kid is scared of breaking stuff in the house.

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rombomb · 30/04/2014 19:52

At Lance’s house in the living room, he and his friend Ben are running and Ben bumps a lamp on accident and it breaks. He freaks out scared.

Ben: oh no! i’m gonna get in trouble.

Lance: it’s ok. it was an accident. and dad can get a new one.

Ben: but he’ll be mad.

Lance: no he won’t. i’ve done it before and he wasn’t mad. he just says ‘it’s ok we’ll get a new one.’ and then he says ‘try not to run in places where you can bump into stuff or places where you can get hurt.'

[ben calms down a little but is still worried. he’s not sure that lance’s claims about his dad are right.]

[rick, Lance’s dad, comes into the living room from his bedroom.]

Rick: hi ben.

Ben: hi.

[rick notices the broken lamp.]

Rick: oh.. what happened?

[ben says nothing]

Lance: we were running and ben knocked over the lamp on accident.

Rick: ok. well, try not to run where you can knock over stuff. how about you guys play outside instead of here?

Ben: ok!

Rick: are you guys hungry?

Lance: no but i think i’ll be hungry after playing outside.

Rick: k, what do you want to eat?

Lance: i want pizza. ben what do you want?

Ben: pizza sounds good. what kind?

Lance: i like plain cheese.

Ben: me too.

Rick: k, i’ll get it reading in the oven and then you can turn the dial to 15 minutes when you’re ready.

Lance: k. [and runs outside]

[rick opens the freezer to get pizza out.]

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Why do you think Ben get's scared that Lance's dad will be mad?

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YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 30/04/2014 21:22

Hey ho! The comment wasn't really a comment, it was more to draw your attention to the fact that we'd zapped the links contained within. If we could do more with fonts and whatnot it would have been more obvious... might yet go back and have a fiddle to make that clearer.

We're not really super-sure what's going on with this one, but there have been a ton of reports and the general feel seems to be that this is just clickbaity spam? However, it is also rather entertaining in a kind of "We need to talk about Lance" kind of way so we thought that redacting the links might be the thing to do? Wouldn't expect to hear from Rombom again, though. Shock

RandomInternetStranger · 30/04/2014 21:22

I had an interesting incident once, DD had a few friends over for a tea party, they were having a run around and play and knocked a framed print off the wall and smashed the glass frame. Obviously the first priority was get the kids away so no one got cut (they were old enough to understand, 5ish) and then clean up the glass. Most of the parents were there, including the parents of the one that knocked it, and though it wasn't really a big deal, and I certainly didn't make anyone feel bad about it, the parent didn't apologise even though he saw it happen, didn't offer to replace it or ask if it was special or expensive, or acknowledge it at all. I wouldn't necessarily have accepted a replacement for it, it wasn't particularly expensive though it was a favourite of mine, but surely that's just manners, if you, or your child, breaks something belonging to someone else, you apologise and (maybe) offer to replace it, no? That niggled me. Still does if I'm honest.

PrincessBabyCat · 30/04/2014 21:22

Can I trade my child in for an iPad? Grin

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JustSquirted · 30/04/2014 21:23

Grin canus

JimBobplusasprog · 30/04/2014 21:23

MNHQ I think I love you

AtYourCervix · 30/04/2014 21:25

What a load of absolute shite.

LackaDAISYcal · 30/04/2014 21:27

I would wonder how old Ben and Lance are that Rick thinks it's OK for them to oven bake their own pizza. Is he going to be around to get it out for them after the 15 minutes cooking is up? or will he be waiting in the wings with an "oh, it's OK, we'll pay for a good plastic surgeon" when Ben is screaming in pain from his partial thickness burns?

AiryFairyHairyAndScary · 30/04/2014 21:28

Brilliant post MNHQ Thanks

Kid is scared of breaking stuff in the house.
CrystalSkulls · 30/04/2014 21:28

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YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 30/04/2014 21:29

We love you too, Jimbob.

YetAnotherHelenMumsnet · 30/04/2014 21:31

And AiryFairy too!

AiryFairyHairyAndScary · 30/04/2014 21:31

This thread reminds me of the Modern Parents in Viz Grin

Ohbyethen · 30/04/2014 21:39

Mansplained.
Or maybe twatsplained - I didn't bother with the links.

Kid is scared of breaking stuff in the house.
treaclesoda · 30/04/2014 21:51

Ah, thanks for the TCS explanation.

I was coercing my 2 year old into staying in bed and going to sleep earlier by sitting on him. It's a shock to me to discover that coersion is wrong, and frankly it will be a dilemma next time he tries to run out in front of a car. I would hate to infringe on his personal liberty and sense of self by preventing him getting run over. What's the good parent to do?

OTheHugeManatee · 30/04/2014 22:06

Can I nominate this for classics please, in the 'wtf' category.

OTheHugeManatee · 30/04/2014 22:07

Or might that be a coercive infringement of others' right to think really boring threads are brilliant?

HanSolo · 30/04/2014 22:18

Ok- seriously people, odd thread aside- who the fuck as an adult runs around their home? Confused

Oh, and I have never broken anything in my home as an adult either Halo

Next time my ASD child runs in front of a car, I'll just have a rational discussion with her about how it's not good to panic by traffic, shall I? Hmm

AwfulMaureen · 30/04/2014 22:52

I run. I run downstairs and often run from one room to another if the phone rings or if I'm in a hurry.

I'm 41...

LackaDAISYcal · 30/04/2014 23:09

I run, when one of my children makes that plaintive "I am so seriouly hurt I can't breathe" wail. Which, incidently, they do not make when they have broken my stuff.

HanSolo · 30/04/2014 23:18

Oh, OK- my flabber is ghasted!

Obviously my house is too small to run around...

JustSquirted · 30/04/2014 23:27

I run around the house.

DS is 12. If there's a call for "mum it's burning", then I run.

PrincessBabyCat · 30/04/2014 23:46

Oh, and I have never broken anything in my home as an adult either

We have to get a new set of glasses about every 2 years. They get dropped quite often, by both of us. I've broken so many of my own things on accident I could cry. Blush

HolidayCriminal · 01/05/2014 08:26

I hate walking on stairs, has to be running, both ways.

Is OP trying to give us a primer in robotic unconditional parenting?

HanSolo · 01/05/2014 21:23

Aw princess- that must be horrible Sad It was rather a shock after 20 years as an adult (and not breaking things) to have a child that destroyd everything merely by looking at it Shock Things honestly just fall apart in his hands Confused I've stood and watched, just astonishing.
But it certainly teaches you as a parent not to get flustered/upset when they break things- I know that if I pass it to him, it is not long for this world Wink

MorelloKisses · 02/05/2014 15:05

FFS

'By accident' not 'on accident'

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