Dad demands 16-year-old daughter replace 16-year-old stepbrother's expensive noise-cancelling headphones after she intentionally breaks them, wife and daughter think he's being unfair: 'I don’t think you get to break someone’s stuff and not pay for it'

Accountability is one of the most important lessons you'll learn as a child, as it has a broad and sweeping range of effects and implications on your life and how you conduct yourself in the world. This means learning that actions have consequences, whether good or bad, and that the things you do have an impact on the world and those around you. Learning these foundations of trust and character will teach you to be dependable and self-aware. Failing to learn this will affect all your personal and professional relationships, as those around you will grow tired and wary of your inability to accept responsibility for your actions.

When this 16-year-old daughter broke her stepbrother's noise-cancelling headphones (probably intentionally), she was sure she was going to get away with it. While the boy's father was willing to buy his son a new pair without dwelling on it, the girl's father knew that she needed to learn that actions have repercussions and thought that a suitable reparation would be to have her replace them.

The father asks in his original post whether or not he's in the wrong for "unnecessarily" taking money from his daughter by having her pay to replace the headphones out of pocket. The reality here is that it isn't unnecessary at all and is serving a very real purpose.