Is it the iPod headphones she breaks? I found that Creative headphones are very good, I was doing my paper round in the snow in february, and I pulled my headphone out of my ear but forgot to put it back in again, it got absolutely soaked but it didn't break, it just wasn't so loud : p. Maybe it's just her luck that they keep breaking, I can't hold down an mp3 for more than a year because they all keep dying on me (but I'm testing the iPod shuffle 3rd gen, so hopefully this one won't break on me : p). Try the Creative ones, I don't think you could go very wrong with them : )