Children handling your dolls?

Never !

 

Not only do my 4 and 6 yr old use my extra laptop (it was probably around $800 when it was new) but they treat it well and proficiently use the trackball. My 6 yr old has no interest in my dolls, but sometimes my 4 yr old likes to hold them occasionally and is never rough with them. Yes children can be loud and boisterous...thats the very nature of children...most can sit still occasionally and will usually handle something with care if you ask them (nicely). At least thats the case with my children.
I probably wouldn't let a 2 or 3 yr old near the doll...they are just too young and lack the fine motor skills to handle it gently however my kids are old enough that I trust them in my presence.

 

While I don't yet have my first bjd, I generally don't trust children around my things. I've had the misfortune of most all children I meet being wild, rambunctious, and not at all careful with their posessions let alone those of others.

So no, I would not allow a child to touch my things. Not unless I knew the child and knew that he/she was trustworthy and respected other people's property.

 

I've let children touch or hold my doll. I've let interested little kids touch my dolls at meetups (although I warn them they need to be careful). I don't mind an occasional smudgy fingerprint--it's easier to get off than some other marks. I won't let children I'm unfamiliar with have unsupervised, no-holds-barred time with my dolls--that's just asking for trouble. I'd certainly let my younger cousins and siblings do so, though. Honestly, most children are in awe, stay interested for maybe 5 seconds, and then are done. XD

I let some young girls play with my doll unsupervised shortly after meeting them because their mother owns dolls; they weren't the gentlest of kids, but they knew the dolls were expensive, important, etc. My doll was returned to me just as she left, and they took some very pretty pictures of her, too~

 

My 10 (or 11, can never remember her age -_-') year old was playing with my doll, which I wasn't bothered by. But when we went to a baraque little kids where practially coming in swarms to see my friends and I's dolls. I wasn't iffy about it since it was a baraque and kids could have stuff on their hands and I'm generally just not that great with little kids. Though my friends was better with them and I pretty much just let her handle it. I'm okay with little kids touching my dolls, but I would be watching them like a hawk...

 

My 6 yr old has her own digital camera and takes better pictures then me....kinda embarrassing

 

Isn't it embarrassing? They were really creative about posing and props, too.

 

It seems to be an inherited trait....her grandfather likes photography so she's into it...and she happens to have a good eye for those kinda things.

 

My family has a few kids... The 6 year old doesn't know they exist, because he's never seen them. I probably won't tell him or show him, because he's destructive and likes taking things out of people's rooms and losing them, especially if they're small enough to fit in a pocket... He lost my mom's iPod doing that. I'd be afraid he would take off with a wig or clothes or whatever, or worse; the whole doll.
My 9 year old sister is pretty good about respecting my stuff, but still can't resist the occaisional urge to mess with it. I actually considered getting her a vinyl BJD, because she likes customizing stuff (She makes outfits for stuffed animals and my old wooden art models all the time out of scraps of cloth and whatever she can find) but I'd give it a while before getting her something fragile or expensive, because she can be a little rough without realizing it. However, she knows not to touch my dolls unless I give her permission to. She understands full well their value.
My 11 year old stepbrother doesn't care enough to wanna touch them, and I probably wouldn't let him if he wanted to, because he's crazy clumsy. He has his own fair share of pricey electronics, and he treats them pretty well, but he can't help the fact that he's got the reflexes and grace of a rusty spoon.
The rest of the kids are older and don't care, even if they did I wouldn't mind them touching/handling them because they're mature and know the value of the dolls.

Anyways, in the long run; I would most likely not let a child handle my dolls, unless it was a child I trusted and or knew how capable they were of handling other people's prized possessions. This rule has applied to all of my belongings for long before I got into BJD, so it remains the same for them.

 

I do let my nieces handle my dollies. My older niece loves to take pictures of her. (My mother thinks I'm insane for letting her use my camera - which costs as much as all three of my dolls combined!)

My younger niece is six. When I first got my second-hand BBB, I didn't have s-hooks, so her hands were being held on with thin wire. I took her with to my niece's eye appointment and let her look her over while we were waiting. Her hand came unconnected (which happened a few times) and my niece thought she'd broken her... she started crying so hard! I had to promise her the girl wasn't broken before she'd calm down!

Children can be very careful when they know something is precious to you.

 

No WAY! I hate childrens.

 

It depends on the child and the doll they want to see. Of the children I know, I'd only let one hold a doll and only if her sister and brother weren't around. The sister is unpredictable and they're liable to get into a pushing and grabbing match over it that'l end in tears and my doll face first on the ground and broken. o_o The brother is 3 and is untrained. Thinking about it is giving me chills, urgh.

 

Eek. No. I don't trust children to be very careful with dolls. At least not the ones who are below the ages of 7. I once let this two little kids try taking photos with my polaroid camera and they grabbed it in such a rough way and they didn't know where to hold and what to do but they were just grasping it so tight across the lens and I almost got a heart attack. So if I were to let a child touch my doll, I'd better be prepared to get someone to redo my doll's face up. LOL!

And ETA: a friend of mine came by the other day and I let her look at my doll and she's not a child but she turned his legs at his hips a couple of times and I was like ZOMG! >.> Pah. So yeah, I'm not about to let anyone handle my dolls. I could tell them to be extra careful but I always get the same look: "Oh, please."

 

I don't like children, and definitely don't trust them to touch my things, especially not things that are fragile or expensive. So I wouldn't let them touch my dolls. To be honest, I barely trust my friends, who are all in their 20s, to handle my dolls... Haha.

 

I have an infant so I make sure my dollies are completely out of his reach & his sight! And if I handle them, he's not allowed to touch or get near them!

 

I usually, at most let children I don't know touch my boys hands or something, I don't let them hold him etc. Even in my own family the little ones know clearly they don't mess with anything that belongs to me, so my dolls are clearly a no no especially when the younger one did get into him when i told him not to. I don't really like little kids so i keep my stuff away.

 

It depends on the child.
But I think that I don't let anyone touch my doll or redress.
Of course, I'm not senseless and I give my baby for a second, if someone interests in it. But this quite a few minutes will be a real stress for me =___=

 

I have two nephews and one niece. I can trust my older nephew since he is very obedient and trust worthy and will let him hold her. My second nephew, OUT OF THE QUESTION, he is like a little monster who has way too much energy and destroys most of his toys and is very very spoiled. So, I would say no simply to him especially if he whines like the little brat he is >_>
My niece on the other hand I will show her and maybe let her touch her if she is within her good mood that day . I still think she is a bit young to be handling quite a large SD doll but hey, as long as she is gentle on touching her. I have absolutely no qualms ^_^.

 

I live with a family that has a 2 1/2 year old girl. When I first got my doll, I was determined that she wouldn't know about her, because I was afraid of Jane (the doll) getting messed up. But now, I'm a lot less paranoid and Elliot (the little girl) likes to help me change her clothes and put her to bed and talk to her. She's surprisingly very very gentle with Jane. AND the only one in the house that doesn't look down on me for my love for BJDs. haha

 

The most I've done is "introduce" one of my dolls to my 9 month old neice by setting him down next to her and having him wave. She just got a huge grin on her face, laughed, and waved back~ I don't think I'll be letting her touch or handle them any time soon, obviously, since she's so young.