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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]Rorey
(8,451 posts)Every year at Christmastime she displayed her Three Kings in a high-traffic and unstable place. Every year there would be damage because when you have a house full of people things happen. Every year she'd play the "Woe is me" card. I quit caring about it early on.
The same went for her complaining about kids spilling a drink in her downstairs (basement) family room and staining the carpet. She'd banish the kids downstairs and the adults would be upstairs. And she'd give them red Kool-aid to drink (!!!) Gosh, what could go wrong???
Now I have my own grandchildren. I've always had a few "Grandma's House Rules", but sometimes things happen. Lessons are learned and life goes on. (My husband is the one who will invariably spill something or scratch something. And then like a little kid he'll deny it. )