Children handling your dolls?

Noooo. I hate children, I think they're gross and I don't like them even touching me, let alone my stuff. If any children come over my house it's strictly look, don't touch. I wouldn't trust a kid not to get them dirty or break them.

 

I nanny for three little girls. Ages, 9, 5, and 21 months. Obviously, they've seen my dolls and being little girls, want to play with them.

And I let them. Why? Because it is much better for me to allow them to touch and play with them and teach them how to properly care for them and treat them while I can supervise as opposed to them going behind my back and being sneaky and then something happen to one of them. (Not that they would because my girls are awesome and amazing and very well behaved)...but still. If I told them no, they couldn't touch, it'd just make them want to and they'd find a way to do it.

Besides, I love playing dolls with them so we sit and play dolls, lol.
Plus, the 9yr old, just got her own BJD. My mother and I bought her one for her birthday and she just adores her and takes very very good care of her because she knows how and she understands that her doll is not a toy and knows how much they cost. So she is very gentle and very good with her.

I believe you just have to teach the children the right way to handle them.

 

No.. No.. and NO !!! Kids should have their own toys.. especially when they are below 15 =P

 

I don't usually let people handle my dolls.

Heck, I'm too scared to handle them myself sometimes. =3

 

I'll say normally, NO WAY. I've been around waaay too many ill-behaved children since I moved up here to PA. Sticky fingers, eat off the floor, sneeze and cough on everyone and everything- I just... NO. Iris has already been punched by a child under ten, and the only other two kids that I see fairly actively mistreated my young English Angora rabbit when I brought him over to meet them and attempt to teach them how to treat animals.

That being said, there are some amazing kids out there that are one out of a bunch, and I tend to sense who has that quality. I used to babysit for a living quite often when I still lived in Florida and there were at least two kids I would absolutely trust to at the very least hold my resin boys.

 

My brother is 16 but he acts as if he's like 8 (he's immature and a bit rude and spiteful, I do love him though he's my brother after all) and I would never ever let him touch my dolls unless he stopped acting like an idiot, he's likely to intentionally drop the doll just to spite me.

It totally depends on the child, I'd have to know them well and trust them before I let them hold/touch the doll. I'm also far more likely to let a girl near a doll just since boys tend to be more reckless and less interested at that age since they're still affected by all those lame expectations (like dolls are for girls and cars are for boys and that boys can't like pink). But I think when I eventually have a child I'll be likely to let them handle them, but only under strict supervision.

For me it's not so much about age as it is about personality, there are some grown ups I wouldn't let touch dolls (like my ex-boyfriend's mum). If I know they're unreliable and reckless and untrustworthy then there's no way I'll let them near my dolls. It's hard to gain my trust at the best of times xD I'm rather protective in general of any of my stuff.

 

I had a little faith restored while I was out with Iris tonight. A man with young two boys walked up to me and my friend and asked if we "had a story for our two friends here". (she had a Goodreau doll with her.) He called his kids over and they seemed really intrigued, and asked if they could look at our dolls. They came over and didn't reach out, they didn't get rowdy, they looked with their eyes. (like... like NOT-kids.)

He asked a lot of questions about Iris and asked his boys to pay attention, like about his wig, face, and clothes, the kids were really interested when me and my friend showed them that they're strung dolls, and they were really respectful. The didn't make us feel weird for having our boys at the bookstore. The man eventually told us he was a musician and used to be a puppeteer and that's what compelled him to approach us, but I was just really, really impressed with the kids. It was a rare treat. Usually I have gawking kids (and parents who encourage them to laugh).

 

I have been to several doll meets over the past year since I started this hobby. It's at a local library in an event room that they rent out so the public is free to come in. There's a lot of people that walk by the room interested as to what these dolls are. A fair amount of parents bring their little kids inside. I have allowed some kids to handle a few of my dolls (ones that I feel are more durable) I do agree that kids can be gentle but it also depends on the child.

 

It's always a good idea to take touchable decoys with you.

 

No, I have not ever let children handle my dolls. I probably wouldn't ever let a child touch my dolls, no matter how clean or well-behaved the child was.

 

Children are not allowed to touch 98.99% of my stuff, period. XD

 

I believe that it depends on if you can trust them, on how they treat their own toys, and if they will be supervised. ^^; I've seen way too many barbies and such get paint all over their bodies, have their hair cut into weird styles, and worse because the child wasn't taught to be careful with their toys because they were just given to them as a method of entertainment. It's a little difficult for me to explain since I don't know the inner workings of a child's mind so I'm going based off of what I've seen.

 

I don't think I could ever let kids handle my dolls, simply because I have hardly ever met anyone (adult or child) who is as careful as I am in general, so I wouldn't expect a kid to live up to my expectations when it comes to how careful you need to be around other people's things. But then again, child-me would have been good at handling anything (not a single one of my many, many toys and books ever had a scratch on them) and I guess there are a lot of kids like that out there... So I guess generally no, but there will most likely be an exception at some point in time. It would have a lot to do with what doll we're talking about, too. It would have to be a doll I could live with having to repair, since accidents DO happen.

 

The child to doll has a strong destructive power, only as far as possible to avoid them to see their dolls, resolutely resist they touch a doll

 

I would say it heavily depends on the child, not all children act the same. Some are snot nosed brats who should be kept away with a 20 foot pole, and others are well behaved curious little angels.

I had been invited to my mom's house for dinner once, my sister and her daughter were there, she was like six or so at the time. I had wanted to take one of my dolls with me to get pictures out in the woods, but knowing my niece was there I opted not to. Which was a good thing, since not even the hat I wore to dinner was safe from my bratty niece. She snatched it off my head while I was sitting on the couch and ran around the house with it and refused to give it back to me. I could only imagine what she would have done with one of my dolls.

 

I've never been in a situation where anyone under 15 has wanted to handle my doll(s). I suppose if I was it would entirely depend on the child as some are more respectful and well-behaved than others, in which case, I would allow them to handle my doll with my supervision.

 

No I don't give them to touch my dolls because I don't want that they will get broken. I only show them for the children. I don't even like children that much anyway...

 

In general I don't let children others handle my dolls. However I have on occasion let my sisters friends 4 year old hold them; but only if she's sitting down. She really likes them and refers to my Shoyo3 Spinx as the rabbit doll, so I don't mind if she's supervised.

 

depends in their age, but no, not unless they had some knowledge of how expensive my dolls are.

i was considering giving one to my neice but its going to have to wait till she is a fair bit older than 3...lol

 

I generally wouldnt let them touch it unless im 100% positive that they wouldnt hurt him. But it really depends on the kid tho...

Once i brought my bunny bag (A bag in the shape of a humanoid bunny with clothes) over to my grandmother's bday party and one of my little cousin (around 4 - 5 years old) seemed really interested in my bag and she kept screaming for it even tho it was bigger than she was. She isnt exactly the gentle sort of kid so i didnt let her touch it, and she kept hitting me... so much that i had to actually run up to the second floor, climb out the window, and sit on the roof till she went home.... -_-"

Some kids are REALLY REALLY scary so i wouldnt let them touch my doll. Its fine if they look from 5 feet away tho.. But any closer and ill run.