Children handling your dolls?

Hmm, I don't have my doll yet, but when I get him it will depend on who exactly the kid is. They'd be in my sight at all times, of course, and I'd tell them to be careful, so perhaps I'd let some children play with them. If the kid has malicious intentions there's no way I'm letting them near the doll.

 

I'm wary about anyone holding my doll, regardless of age. Unless they know to be careful and will treat her with respect, it's too much of a risk. There's one five year old at my school that I let handle my doll. He listened to me when I told him to wash his hands before he picked her up and sit down while holding her. Plus he's the only one at my school (including a few girls almost twice his age... :/) who understands that even though she's a doll, she's not like a barbie, she needs to be treated with care and can damage easily. I think it's really a case by case basis. If someone shows that they can be responsible then they can handle her, but if they can't then she stays with me.

 

I would never permit to children touch my doll... (my future doll if I will be so lucky to have one)

 

I use to let my nieces and stepdaughter handle my demon, when I first got him. However, after spending over five hours giving him a thorough cleaning I said 'enough's enough.' Currently, he's wrapped up in a silk scarf and most physical contact is restricted through the fabric....until I have him fully sealed.

 

I believe it really depends on how well-behaved the children are.

I definitely wouldn't let my niece and my cousin's children touch my dolls, sadly...but it's true that they're not to be trusted. They have all visited my place on occasion, and they have all grabbed my stuffed toys and handled them very roughly, without even asking for permission.

I won't let my own daughter touch them either, until she's old enough to understand and then I'll start introducing the dolls (slowly!) to her.

 

Based on last night I've decided that ten-year-old boys are not aloud to touch my dolls. That and that I need to find Alana's underwear. I don't know where they went.

 

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well this is tough for me simply because i am a kid! Well 13 so a teen, but when i see i 12 year old usually i'm not thinking lovey happy thoughts, so probably not, i mean never my cousins kids besides maybe one, he adores me~
As for my cousins, i'm the youngest and second youngest is 17 now, so maybe i would...unless he treats her like he does my rabbit doll

 

I have let my younger cousins handle Miyoubi, of course, after checking their hands and w/ my supervision.

 

I got a similar reaction when I took my doll to Christmas. My cousins (9 and 10) loved her and everyone else thought she was weird and that I'm too old for dolls, etc.

I let my cousins play with my doll. They were very careful. I would never let stranger kids our any of my husband's cousins play with her, though.

 

Despite how big my 10 year old nephew is, I would allow him to hold my doll. Since he knows how to be extremely gentle with things. With my hurricane of a goddaughter, I don't trust her one bit.

 

I actually have and DO let random kids handle my boys. I usually am right there with them, hovering anxiously, but if anyone, kids or not, wants to see them.... I hold them out "Here, hold him. Just don't touch the face." Beyond that, I don't bug them, my boys wear long sleeves and such, so they're protected from grubbiness mostly.

I know I go out to eat at chinese a lot, and the woman who runs it, the sweetest lady EVAR, has two kids. They ALWAYS want to know if I brought them, if I got a new doll, can they hold them. Even the girls that are servers come over to see them. ^-^ I'm pretty free with the boys, so long as you're right where I can get them back if they're in danger. I even pop the headcaps off for the kids to see WHY they shouldn't poke the eyes or pull the wigs.

 

Most of my nieces and nephews are little demons posing for people. Well, at least when it comes to handling my things. I don't really fuss much about them trying to behead my stuffed dolls, or crashing my gashapons, or tearing apart my fashion dollies - but my resin boy is a big NO for them. Out from the 15 nieces and nephews I have, I usually only allow two of my nieces to handle my BJD, since they're quite careful and actually like dolls, ie. they genuinely want to redress him, comb his hair or try to fix him in a pose, instead of seeing whether his head comes off or how much his arm can be bent before breaking (as the other little demons like to do).

But putting aside these little demons, I think I'd let any child handle and touch my doll, as long as they're careful enough.

 

hmmmm, for me I think it would actually depend on the doll. I'd let kids handle my incoming customhouse Hani frankly because she didn't cost me that much and if she broke I would be sad but not devastated. My incoming Soom Ai on the other hand, I wouldn't even let certain adults touch her.

 

I've been usually open to it, unless I know their lil devils
But even then I'll try and calm them down a bit, tell them they have to be REALLY careful because Mommy/daddy would really not like to have to pay to repair any sort of damage.

But, this one time, my parent's friend's kids...were over. The girl was ok about it. Gentile and what not. The boy though, got really excited. Especially when I took of Jacey's headcap (the lil girl was interested). He then proceeded to glee about doing brain surgery. At one point he found a pin and got the brilliant idea to make Jacey a voodoo doll (I kept that from happening, told him he couldnt do that and he'd have to leave it he didnt calm down). And then at one point, he knocked into the girl while she was holding him and thus caused her to bump Jacey's bare head against the table.

Jacey went upstairs after that. When I layed her on my bed I actually said sorry to her lol.

I think now, I'd try and only allow one kid at a time. Or only take my dolls out if there's just one kid around. I'm talking under 9. And maybe not with boys so much. They tend to be more...'lets do brain surgery and use her as a voodoo doll/give her a concussion!' indusive.

 

I took my dolls with me when I went to my parents during christmas. I showed them to my 8 year old cousin. He was very interested in them. He grabbed Charlie once in the face and I was all like "omg the face up O___O" but nothing happened. I told him he shouldn't do that and then he was very careful not to touch their faces. In general he was very careful with the dolls, no harm done. I think it's okay as long as you tell them to be careful and stuff.

 

I am not worried at all, most kids are very shy to some degree, and if they are curious i can show them the dolls and to a degree touch them. Most of them are like WOW! other are more like BLEH, but is always good to teach, otherwise how else are we to learn?

 

I only know little demons, who damage everything they hancdle. So I don't allow anyone of them to touch my dolls!

 

I actually was asked by a girl that was like 4 maybe 5 yesterday if she could hold my doll. I didn't let her. lol I just feel that's like letting a child carry an ancient vase from China--a disaster waiting to happen. What gets me, is after she was told "no" in a nice way btw, she just stared at me like I was -supposed- to let her hold my doll. lolz

 

There are no children here or even in my neighborhood anymore so it hasn't been a situation that I've had to deal with. But, in the abstract, unless I knew the child very well & knew they were quite careful with valuable things, I doubt if I'd let them handle my dolls. When my neighbor's daughter was younger I let her handle my vinyls & even played dolls with her but the BJDs are more fragile & I'd hate for a child to drop or scratch them.

Not only would I be upset but the child or at least her/his parents would undoubtably feel bad as well. So it's simpler to avoid the entire situation & tell them these dolls are just for looking at, not playing with.

 

I've let anyone who wants to hold my dolls. I have no problem with a child handling them--with supervision, of course. But certainly I don't mind, as long as the child isn't covered in PB&J. LOL!