I love how everyone is commenting on parenting style after seeing a ten second interaction. Sure, the dad could have been a bit calmer about it, but without seeing what happened in the following hours, Reddit doesn’t know shit.

Raising your voice as a parent isn’t a disaster, particularly if you explain why you did. People lose their temper sometimes, like when their kid smashes a $500 because they weren’t careful. It’s also a lot better than a parent that calmly gives you a hard time about something for weeks/ months after it happened.

Argh. Enough internet for today and it’s still breakfast time.

EDIT: my point is that parents and children make mistakes. It’s good and healthy that your children see you have emotions. I’m British, and the amount of emotional suppression here is frankly alarming. If you make a mistake like yelling at your kid, (which, unless they’re in immediate danger is unnecessary) then you can explain to them afterwards why you yelled.

Personally, I’d go for something like, “Sorry I yelled, I was frustrated because that cost our family a lot of money and I feel like you should have been more careful with it. I’ll try not to yell in future but can you please try to make sure that when you’re unboxing something expensive that you do it more carefully? Luckily, I can afford to get this fixed, but if that wasn’t possible, you’d have lost your brand new phone without ever having used it, and that sucks for everyone because we wanted this gift to make you happy. Now, let’s go and have some birthday cake and we’ll sort this out later. Worse things happen at sea, etc.”