14-year-old breaks brand new iPhone 13 twice in mere months, begs her dad to buy her an $1000 iPhone 15 after the second breakage: 'Apparently she doesn't like having a phone case'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Sep 10, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

The best way to learn the value of your things is to pay for them yourself. When I discovered my laptop screen was broken and would take $400 to fix, I was devastated and put off fixing it for as long as possible. I was embarrassed that I had treated my possession so recklessly that it had to have so much money thrown at it to be repaired. Since then, I've been as careful as I could possibly be with my laptop. I don't put drinks by it, and I always set it down as gently as possible. Maybe spending $400 was worth learning such a valuable life lesson. 

Some might argue that you can't learn the value of things unless you have to go without them. That's what one teenage girl will probably have to do after breaking her iPhone 13 for the second time in a matter of months. 

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    AITA for refusing to buy my daughter another phone and "ruining her life" Not the
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    I have a daughter 14f and she's pretty clumsy. We bought her an iphone 13 pro a couple years ago. She broke hers just months after getting it thankfully we had applecare and managed to get it repaired. Now she again broke her phone this time after it accidentally fell off her hand at a freinds house while she was playing a video game. The phone is too badly damaged now. She is now begging for an iphone 15.
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    Unfortunately it's no longer covered by insurance meaning we will have to buy a new phone. We just spent a lot of money on a gaming PC and an ipad for her 14th birthday I don't really want to spend more money on electronics and smartphones for her especially. A new iphone would cost A 1000 dollars.
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    She's also broken it once already and I feel I'll be rewarding this behavior if I buy her another phone as she still seems to be clumsy. I made a deal with her that if she keeps her ipad for a year without breaking it I'll buy her a new phone the next year. She's now complaining that I'm going too far and that I'm "ruining her life" and that she needs an iphone. She does still have a smartphone but she complains about it being slow and a bad camara. She's currently using her sisters old redmi no
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    Edit I got a comment about why I didn't get my older daughter an iphone as we both got them phones at around the same time. The reason I got her a lower end phone was she didn't want an iphone. We got her a apple pencil for her ipad and a nice telescope along with the phone for her birthday that time.
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    PowerfulHorror987 • 1d Partassipant [1] NTA. If she absolutely needs a phone for something, get her a refurbished one, an iPhone SE, or a base level iPhone 15. Or, if you have an older phone, get yourself a new one and give her your old one. A 14 year old does not need a new iPhone pro. Edit: all of the comments replying that are saying the same exact thing—"she doesn't need an iPhone or a smartphone at all"-l get it. You don't have to keep saying the same thing over and over. I meant from the p
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    Ok_Health_7797 OP. 1d She currently is using her sisters old redmi note 11 the phone works nicely my oldest was using it till March. But the photos aren't as great and she complains about slower speed and getting less fps on games but the phone overall is fine.
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    FOTAINME AXJ abstractengineer2000. 1d OP's daughter has shown that she doesn't care about what gets broken. She needs a dose of reality. No more Iphones, she can buy one when she earns the requisite money
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    kanna172014 • 1d Yep. Kids tend to take better care of things that they work for and buy themselves because they understand the value of the labor that the money comes from.
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    geniusintx 1d . My hands are stupid from multiple medical issues. They LOVE to drop things. I've got this case and it's amazing. We have concrete floors and I drop my phone constantly. All the phones I've had for 8 years have been in one of these and I've never so much as cracked or scratched a screen. It's very thin, doesn't cover the screen and I don't understand how it works so well. I once dropped a phone from 6' directly on concrete outside and didn't even get a scratch. The best cases I've
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    JustBid5821. 1d If she keeps complaining get her a flip phone. Once she has learned to take better care of her things let her upgrade to a better phone. I also suggest you make sure to put an OtterBox or some other protection on the phone so it doesn't shatter if you accidentally drop it.
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    ilaughalldaylong • 1d. . When I read this type of post, I wonder if the kids break their phone on purpose so they can get the newest and best replacement.
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    No-Introduction3808. 1d NTA I have dropped my phone a tonne of times, including accidentally kicking it across a road. Now mine is an 11 but it has lasted from release day without actually breaking it (I'll be honest my phone. before lasted 4 years with the same treatment, until the day it actually got run over which it still worked but was shattered to pieces). Does she not have a screen protector or case? How is she breaking it?
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    UnRemarkable-78. 1d Partassipant [3] This is what I was wondering?! She broke it while playing video games? What? Was she on top of a mountain or something & dropped it? How do you break it SO BAD that it doesn't work, while playing video games? I'm truly baffled. NTA. Don't buy her a new one, & get the real story!!
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    Ok_Health_7797 OP. 1d It does have a case but she takes it out a lot because apparently she doesn't like having a case. I usually make her put in the phone in the case if I see It without a case but I wasn't there then.
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    Significant_Mine_606 • 1d Oh then 100% NTA if she is so careless that she takes off the case then it's her own problem that she broke the phone. The only reason I have ever broken a phone was b/c I didn't have a case on it.
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    HowlPen 1d Aficionado [17] ESH You have created this monster (/s.) Instead of starting her 11-year-old self with a family hand me down or refurbished older generation phone, you went out and bought her the then current iPhone Pro. This was your mistake. Now you've doled out both a gaming system and an iPad for her birthday. When you make stuff like this magically appear for your kid, they take it for granted that they are entitled to whatever electronics they want. So of course she's not gratefu
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    Kai-ni⚫ 1d Partassipant [2] NTA for not buying her another iPhone in this instance, but... You created this monster. Why does a 14 year old need a new iPhone, a gaming PC, and an ipad??? You're right to say she can't have more electronics until she can prove she doesn't break the ones she has, but... you should have started sooner.
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