“If I cared about it getting broken I wouldn’t have put it in front of a toddler”

Hey everyone, I think we have all heard that quote from someone at least once right? It still makes you feel bad when your kid does break something.

It’s usually when you are at a friends/ families house, or out at a restaurant.

For me it was the latter, we went to a restaurant, server gave him one of those water ring games (you fill it up with water and hit the button to move the objects in the water) I tried giving it back to him saying “it’s okay I don’t want him to break it” and then spent my whole meal trying to keep my 18 month old from smashing it, when that’s all he wanted to do. Because my kid had it for a second, it was all he wanted to play with, so trying to set it off to the side of the table was a no go. Fast foward to right before I ask for the check, he reaches and grabs it and drops it, and it shatters.

I felt so bad, I felt embarrassed, because everyone around us was staring at us, and the server just said to my repeated apologies, and asking him how much he paid for it, “if I cared about it getting broken I wouldn’t have put it in front of a toddler” but it didn’t make me feel any less guilty of the situation and I appreciate the guy and what he was trying to do, but just not giving my toddler it at all (what my 6th sense was telling me to do) would have led to a non broken water game, and a lot of embarrassment and shame on my part.