Kid is scared of breaking stuff in the house.

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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?

OP I work with children who have parents like Rick. So here is why I think he isn't the wonder parent:

You seem to think his calmness is 100% positive. Whilst being calm is great, his reaction lacked boundaries or any awareness that breaking things is not OK and was not teaching the boys anything and could be harmful. Breaking another person's property through carelessness is not considered right in any culture, is illegal and assuming new stuff can just be 'bought' (or teaching kids this) is both entitled and false. Some cannot afford new stuff - but even a millionaire might be unable to replace a photo of a dead relative or gift from their spouse should they be broken. Raising kids to shrug off breakage as OK isn't on.

What I see is 10 years down the line are incidents like this:
-They knock and break the mobile phone of a kid whose parent cannot just 'buy them another'. They (and Rick) are mystified as to why a fight ensued and the kid/parent are so stressed out about it. They feel like victims. I have to have mediation meetings and send the boys to a mentor to teach them cause-and-effect and empathy.
-One day the boys go too far and Rick isn't happy. However, due to the lack of sanctions and parental status in childhood, he is unable to communicate this without the boys thinking it's 'weird' and 'out of order'. This leads to a young man and his dad having a really bad, relationship breaking disagreement.

OP doesn't have children do they? Or if they do they probably have a one year old baby.

This is exactly the kind of parent I was in theory until DS turned 3 and then everything went to shit.

You have to man up and be the adult and say no sometimes.

The insinuation though is that Ben has a scary-ass dad who will beat him 57 times with a belt for a genuine accident. I don't know any parent who would punish their child for an accident, but for carelessness, where they've been told a million times or if they have broken a rule which was intended to prevent said accident, yes, either that or some kind of telling off/restriction of freedom/etc.

And I don't know anyone who would beat their children, either, so, meh.

A mother was arrested locally to us (Munich) the winter befote last for riding through town on a push bike with a totally naked young toddler on the baby seat, in February, daytime temperatures below freezing - her argument in court was that the child was unwilling to be dressed, and she disagreed with forcing or coercion. The judge was not symapthetic