Clif, you are multi talented, a musician and a snake tamer!!

Joking aside, I would say that my opinion on the keyboard side of things, is this: Since she probably has a sort of income (allowance, coming from you maybe?) you should buy this new controller taking a percentage from her allowance. Explain her that we are all responsible for our actions and we have to pay for things we buy or intentionally destroy. Maybe that will teach her to discuss the reason behind certain decisions, instead of using brute force to take out their frustrations, or again, maybe not.

If of course she thinks that she had the right to do that, since you didn't answer yes to her demands, she won't learn anything, but surely that behaviour of hers doesn't make YOU a bad parent. Children form a personality based on parents and family ideas as well as friends' and their own ideas.
I also think the kickboxing denial was only the spark...the fuel must be somewhere else.

Also, sometimes eldest kids are "forgotten" (not gettng enough attention) in favour of the youngest, and since you have many others, she had enough chances to be "forgotten".
I am in no doubt that the things I say have passed your mind before, just wanted to show that you have my support.

Theodore
(only child, presumably spoiled rotten, though this is not the case at all)

[This message has been edited by trident (edited 10-25-2005).]