If she wants to put £1000 down the drain that's on her

Sounds to me like she lost control, not once but twice because to smash portable items to bits when she could have confiscated them is not a calm and measured response no matter how she dresses it up.

Also to the travelling in first class while your kids travel separately I do not understand that at all, that to me is, look at me I am more important than you, it is not teaching them the value of money, its teaching them that having money sets you apart from others, for me I find it a joy to give my kids stuff that me and Mr C didn't have growing up, simply because we can, they still know the value of money and how hard Mr C and me work to give them that standard of living, denying them stuff because they haven't earned it when they aren't at the age to earn it is just stupid, obviously if they are 25 and still relying on Mum and Dad to pay for everything its different, but her kids 8 and 10 or something :umm2:

Re: the plane... if it was purely about teaching them the value of money she'd have plonked her arse back in economy with them, not sent them there on their own.

Idiot. And of course you cannot break an Ipad by gently tapping it on the table :joker: She can try and talk her way out of it all she wants, she lost control and smashed their stuff. To 'teach them, a lesson' I totally get, but you would just take them off them and maybe give them to someone else..or keep them out of view. Not smash them. So yeah, she got violent infront of her kids, which is not good and nothing to basically brag about.

She looked like she was in two minds about saying it at all, dressed up as "because of how people might react" but surely what that really means is, "because I know it was too far". She should have gone with that first instinct and kept her trap shut, it turns out :umm2:.