Saturday, December 02, 2006

Child Expense Coverage Etiquette...


You're at a friend's house and your kid breaks something that belongs to your hosts (here's the window pane on my back door that prompted this post).

The question is: what's the $ value threshold at which you:

  1. offer reimbursement
  2. insist on reimbursement
  3. demand that reimbursement be accepted

Are there mitigating factors such as:

  1. did your kid act alone?
  2. the socio-economic status of your hosts? of you?

As the father of a son who, most likely, will put me in this position, I am looking to better understand social convention and expectation.

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