I allowed my 5-year-old stepson to borrow on of my own sons' toys. His babysitter ran over it and destroyed it. In this case, it was a fifty-cent secondhand plastic car from a thrift shop- certainly no one expects it to be replaced. However I'm curious about what would be ethical or legal if it had been a more expensive or valuable toy. The babysitter, since she ran over it? The mother, since it is her child and therefore her responsibility? Presumably the 5yo isn't expected to get a job and replace it! Or would it be my responsibility, since I allowed him to borrow it?
Again, I know it is irrelevant in this situation (although the mother, not knowing it was secondhand or how much it cost, did tell her son there was no way they were replacing it- he begged to before he ever told us it was broken) I just wonder how it would be if the same thing happened with a different type of item.
I do not know where the sitter ran over it- her driveway, his mother's driveway, in a yard.
2006-10-17
11:54:26
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