Make My 10-Year-Old Pay For The $1,000 Table He Broke?
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4.5 • 840 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHO, a budget-friendly faith-based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:07.6 | CH Ministries.org slash budget. |
| 0:10.6 | How much should I have my children pay when they break things? |
| 0:14.6 | Recently, my 10-year-old broke a $400 window and a glass table that is thousands of dollars to replace. Well, what happened? The 10-year-old is. |
| 0:23.8 | Is this a boy or a girl? Boy? It's a boy. I was like, I can answer that. Hey, take it easy on the boys. |
| 0:30.3 | What was he doing? Was he just being a boy and? Yeah. Like jump it. What was he doing? With the window, he was throwing the baseball. |
| 0:39.5 | Oh, classic. |
| 0:40.5 | And we had told him not to do this. |
| 0:42.2 | But he thought it was only that we were telling him that the glass door, like the storm door was going to break. |
| 0:47.6 | He didn't realize the little door next to the door could break too. |
| 0:51.1 | Wait a second. |
| 0:51.9 | He was upset about himself about that. |
| 0:54.1 | Did he throw the ball directly at it or was he playing with a friend or a sibling and |
| 0:58.7 | somebody missed it? |
| 1:01.5 | It could have been someone missed it because, yeah, they usually throw the ball toward |
| 1:06.2 | the door and they keep the batter right in front of the door and they know not to. |
| 1:10.7 | But they've been told not to. |
| 1:13.4 | Many, many, many times. |
| 1:15.0 | Okay, all right. |
| 1:15.7 | This is great. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm gathering information here. |
| 1:17.8 | I haven't ruled yet. |
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