I see no problem with what you did.... in fact I just did the same thing with my 6 year old. He broke is 18 month old sisters musical snow globe just because he wanted to see how hard he had to push the globe part before it broke. Don't ask me what made him think to do that, but I just told him that since he broke it he is to replace it. Not that I won't give him his money back also, but he will now think before he is careless and breaks things next time.