He wasn’t in any position to DEMAND one now was he? No. Give him a position in government or a pack of his friends and then he would be in a better “bargaining” power. I’m just saying he lost the toy through poor choice and the lesson to be learned was right there. It’s all right if others see it differently. Doesn’t bother me.
Except for the fact that it appears that the kid understands he made a "poor choice." So whether you punish him for it, or not, the "lesson" already is "learned."
If you strip away the hook of the cute little boy and his “precious”letter what you have is an adult who is training his child. Did the adult use this incident to “train” him that there are consequences to disobedience or did he “train” him that your first recourse is to ask some company to make it right? BTW you guys do realize that a 7 yr old would never be capable of writing that letter. So in essence we are discussing the adult(dad)who dictated to the kid what to write.