My mom (48f), in a fit of rage, broke my laptop and my monitor and 2 days later wants to talk about it with me (21M). How should I approach this?

This happened about two days ago. I was in the bathroom at around 11 PM I am I heard my mom raising her voice at my sister for not being asleep. I was exhausted, and lately she’s been a little more aggressive, so I assumed that she would start raising her voice even more and eventually start screaming again. I simply asked her if she could stop yelling, and she took it as if I was asking her to shut up. There was a lot of back and forth of me trying to explain that’s not the case and how she doesn’t need to yell because this is the first time she’s asked tonight. Eventually, she started screaming how she was going to kick me out of the house, so I decided to drop it and continue with my business in the bathroom.

As I am finishing up, I hear a loud crash coming from my room. So I burst out of the bathroom only to find her with my laptop in hand, throwing it to the floor. I yelled at her to leave my room and to leave my stuff alone, and she yelled back that this was her house she can do what she wants. I get behind her, taking my laptop and tell her this is my stuff, I paid for it. Get out now.

As soon as she was out, I close the door on her. But the damage wasn’t done, because my laptop is connected to my monitor with an HDMI cord. My laptop pulled the monitor down and sent it crashing between my desk in the corner of my chair, cracking it. Because of this, now I have no monitor and I am too scared to use my laptop, because the shell and the screen are bulging out and the trackpad sometimes doesn’t work.

Earlier today, my mom sent me a text saying that she wants to talk about what actually broke. But I don’t know if I’m ready for that. I don’t know if she is ready for that. She does not take bad news very well and she overreacts a lot. I am worried that if I do mention what she broke and the value of the things that she broke, that she would not take me seriously or that she will try to pin the blame on me. I know that it’s not my place to tell her how to parent her kids, but a parent shouldn’t be yelling right out the gate. After all I never told her she was wrong for scolding my sister, I only asked for her to not yell. How should I approach this situation?

TLDR: Because I asked for my mom to keep it down, she decided to go break my laptop and monitor that I had spent $1000 on. Now she wants to talk about what actually broke two days after the incident, and I don’t know if we should talk about it or how to handle the conversation.

Edit: Sister is 12

Edit 2: After reading some comments, I’ve decided to keep all talk between her and I over text. But I have no idea how to respond. I could tell her the damage, I could show the pictures, I could show their market price value

Submitted April 01, 2021 at 01:50PM by FlashZT https://ift.tt/39zQVIJ