My son is almost 17. This Christmas, we bought him an expensive computer gaming chair, as he plays a lot of online multiplayer shooters. My son has some anger issues, which he's currently in therapy for, and these shooters tend to bring out his temper more than normal. However, the past few months, he's been keeping it together well, so I figured the chair would be a fair present. I was wrong, because the day after Christmas he was gaming, he started to have bad luck and apparently people in the game were fucking with him because he was losing his patience. This culminated in him screaming insults, then picking up his chair and slamming it into the ground, breaking the back of it. After talking him down, we had a very serious conversation about him no longer being able to play multiplayer games while under my roof until his therapist feels comfortable with his progress. We talked about coping mechanisms, etc. However, I made it very clear that this was unacceptable and he would be grounded. We've had these heart to hearts many times, so it's not like every time he has an outburst, I make light of it. It's a serious issue and we treat it as such. However, when he came to me later that day and told me he would like to replace the chair because it was a gift and he really liked it and it would only be fair, the frustration, the disbelief and the disappointment in his behavior boiled over, I started laughing hysterically. As in a full laughing fit, barely able to keep my breath for talk, the more he pleaded his case, the harder I laughed, repeatedly asking him how was it fair in his mind to have me replace a gift I pay for that he broke out of anger. This obviously pissed him off more, which led to him getting emotional, but I couldn't help myself. I tried walking out of the room and asking him to drop it, but every time he would say, but I need a chair, or what am I supposed to do now, I'd laugh again. I tried explaining it, I'm not laughing at his feelings, I'm laughing at how absurd it is for him as a teenager to expect me to replace shit. He can't be bothered to treat with respect and then whine about it when it's broken. He's still pissed about it and feels slighted. I feel bad for laughing and honestly, if I had to think about it for a little bit, I think I had a mini stress break myself, because it's never happened before and I just couldn't seem to stop. But at the same time, I stand by the fact that his request was ridiculous and enough to make people want to laugh. How badly did I fuck up, Stereo? How badly did I fuck up, Stereo?