Children handling your dolls?

Personally, I have never had a child even take interest in my doll and I am glad, because I would let them look, but I would never allow them to touch! Well it also matters on the child's maturity level. Like a eight year old or younger has no chance of touching/holding my boy, but I would considered allow maybe a nine year old...if I know them...I won't let a stranger on the other hand, seeing that I don't allow any strangers touch him unless they are someone at a doll meet who I have just met and have been talking to...​

 

NO! I don't even trust most ADULTS to touch my girls!

 

This goes for anything I own. Know the kid.
If it's your own child, sure, I'd go for it. But I've got a four year old brother who will personally demolish anything and everything in a room within an hour and a half of purchase, just 'cause he's curious. That said, I'm more trusting of them than I am of my parents.

 

I couldn't let a 12 year old even old my doll.
She chipped his knee a little~ And was very irresonsable. I even made her look me in the eyes, saying she'd be careful beforehand xD I can't let anyone else who isn't a doll owner hold my dolls.

I even let one women twist Edgar in every which way, making him molest other boy dolls D: But I didn't care. I trusted her because she owned dolls xD Which is... unexpected~​

 

Absolutely not. I don't trust adults, let alone kids!

 

I have 2 young ones come visiting, 6, 8yr old girls, they arent bothered at all with the dolls, and I find they are more interested in electronic games, although I do have a few dolls if they get inclined and want to dress for them to play with...I do have people visit whose kids want to tounch everything and I follow them around like a hawk..LOL

 

I would not let little kids touch my dolls. I sometimes don't trust myself with them so I wouldn't really want to trust someone who has worse coordination than I do. I definitely would never let a stranger who doesn't own dolls touch my dolls. At a meet or a convention where I feel that the person handles their doll well I would let them touch them but just random strangers I wouldn't let near them. I don't think they would properly appreciate the true value of the doll both monetarily and personally.

 

I am 13 years old....but I wouldn't trust any other non-doll owner to hold my dolls even if they ARE VINYL! My aunt pushed Arisu off the rocking chair and on to the hard ground......grr...then I had to wash Arisu off and sand her a bit.

 

i might have posted something here but if not...
i have a two year old that i trust more than my roommate some days.
my son is fascinated by my boys, he likes ot pet their hair, when he was littler he tred to eat their feet. i even have a photo of him sitting on my lap as i was cutting out fabric to make a gi for them while they sat all lined up behind me on the sofa. i would let people touch them after warnings.
i told my mom once, "sure you can hold her but if you drop her you owe me a used car, its cheaper." so she sat down with her. lol my mom is awesome and my son is too, i just keep him away when hes hyper. i guess what i mean to say after babbling is that i believe its a case by case basis. good luck!

 

...absolutely not.
Too expensive. Children had destroyed my other dolls and figure collections before!!

 

I would be all right with letting children handle my dolls because of how my niece reacts. My young niece is a tomboy but her interest in dolls has been sparked by my Mini Fee El. She loves changing his wig and brought him a new hoodie as a gift when she visited over the holidays. She likes seeing the new additions and handles all of them very carefully. Plus I'm pretty easy going about others handling my dolls anyway.

 

Nope. I get anxious when little kids look at my dolls. Looking at my cousins as an example, I'd let the older children touch them (8+) and handle them under supervision but no WAY for the youngest who is 5. She would smack em' around and ruin the faceups; not her fault since she thinks they are toys. But she isn't gentle and these aren't Barbie dolls.

And I have a thing about sticky child fingers. @___@

 

I get rather anxious with even adults handling my girl. But my 9 year old brother is very responsible and careful, so I sometimes let him hold and pose her, but only if I'm in the room watching. I don't like to let her out of my sight.

 

Oh no no no! I would never let my little cousins hold Maddox. I’ve seen how they take care of their own dolls. They are really destructive especially with other peoples things

 

I could never let any kid "play" with my doll, since usually little kids just break everything x.x No no no. I think it will be hard for me to let my friends hold my doll, because if someone breaks it I'll be very sad.

 

Umm... even with the current dolls that I own (1:6 scale), I HATE it if children tried to play with them. I let them look, but touching is out of the question. Especially because my younger cousins are very... vicious?
I've nicknamed them the three devils from Hell. XD

 

I've let my niece and nephew (both 3) look at my dolls before. I can't say that either of them were really interested in playing with them. When I took the wig off to show them how you can change their hair, my nephew freaked out and my niece was confused at first then thought it was neat. Both know that the dolls are fragile and aren't allowed to be rough with them. My niece from time to time will sit on the floor with one of my dolls, watching television.

 

For me it really depends on the child. Like my little sister is really super careful with my boys and I let her play with them. She's not rough with anything but the wigs, which are fur so I don't mind her shaking those(XD cause I do it). I've even left my one boy in her care before and mostly all she does is sit with him and do his hair. But, her friends(who are our neighbors) are very rough children, so they didn't get to actually touch my dolls. I let them look, but they're mum offered to hold the doll for them(my mum told her they were expensive)

I think it really depends on the child.

 

LOL, how untrusting some of you are
I would let my 12yr old brother, because he KNOWS that if he breaks it, number1 he will pay 110% of the price and 2, he would be painfully and slowly dead.
I would trust my parents handling them too,not that they'd want to.

 

I think ti's really sweet when my little cousins want to play with macabee. I watch them like a hawk to make sure he dosn't get hurt (lol like he's my own child or something xD; )But most of the time they just sit on my bed and move him around. My littlest cousin Mackenzie plays with him a lot when she visits and some other cousins and their friends like to look at him. I don't see anything wrong with letting kids play with them aslong as they dont have PB&J fingers or shake them around like a polaroid picture. But otherwise, why not? we bought them so WE could play with them and if the worst the kid is going to do is mess up his hair or wrinkle a shirt..(OH THE HUMANITY) let them play around. Heck, we drop our boys all the time and break fingers, scratch faces... Lol I think some kids prolly treat them BETTER than we do.