Children handling your dolls?

It would all really depend on the child. Some kids are rougher and more careless than others. My daughter is 6-years old, and I let her handle my dolls all the time. I have two big rules when it comes to my tinies--1) always ask permission before touching them, & 2) never ever touch the faces. So far so good--she's surprisingly gentle with them. But then again, I am pretty casual when it comes to my dolls.

 

I would only let those kids who I KNOW will take care of them touch them. I'm scared they may drop them or may have oils in there hands. Even I wouldn't let the young me touch them cause I'm know was the most knows jest kid ever ><

 

THIS. Oh God, this. There are so many parents who believe that destruction wrought by their precious angel should be laughed off or dismissed; that there's no reason for you to be angry about it, receive an apology or demand compensation. Unfortunately, until the destruction happens, a lot of times you don't know which camp the parents fall in.

I'm in my 30's, childfree and happy to be that way. Not to say I hate kids, I just don't want 'em. To me, they are like everyone else: there's some I like, some I don't, and the majority I'm indifferent to. Most of the time the kids aren't as much the problem as the PARENTS. Kids are clumsy. They don't always understand the consequences of their actions. They break things, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. It is up to the parents to pay for the damage their kids cause. The ones that are guilty of not doing so are the ones that will create a huge drama if you point that out. To avoid that possibility, kids aren't allowed to touch my dolls. I MIGHT let a responsible, trusted 11, 12, 13 year old handle them under my strict supervision.

To be fair, I will say that there is a lot of adults I won't allow to handle my dolls either. The only ones I feel comfortable handling my dolls are other BJD collectors, because I know they have experience handling these doll correctly.

 

Agree that it depends on how the child is acting. I've had strangers approach and as long as they don't just assume and go to pick them up without asking, I will let them touch them it they want. I don't know about holding. Maybe if they were sitting down.

 

I can't recall ever being in a position where I had children around my dolls that ever wanted to hold/see them. I've taken dolls over to a friend's house who collects as well, but her siblings generally leave her dolls and mine alone. Her sister may have held them a few times, but she's old enough to know to be careful. When my young step cousins are around, I keep the dolls up high. My other cousins are old enough to be trusted around the dolls, but show very little interest in them anyway.

 

I really don't like anyone touching my dolls,but there was one kid I would probably trust to hold one. My ex-neighbor had a little boy who was very careful with things like that. He loved holding dolls and he was always careful because he was afraid of "hurting" the doll. His sister was the opposite,a very destructive and all around bratty kid,so there's no way I would let her anywhere near my dolls.

 

I would never let a kid touch my doll since most of the kids I know are very destructive and their parent aren't the most reposable persons I know. Even with adults I am very careful when I am showing her ( I think is mostly because I am kind of OCD with cleaning, so I don't trust my doll unless I have seen they washed their hands.)

 

I let my friends niece hold my soom Grit and she was super good and careful ^^

 

I'm not around little kids that often, but I wouldn't want them touching or holding my dolls, that is, unless I knew they would be very careful with them.

 

It does make a difference on the kid, but if I don't know them I ask them not to touch my dolls. If I do know them, and I trust them, I just let them know to be really careful and make sure they don't touch them without my permission.

 

No. No children touching any of my things. Someone brought their kids to a doll meet I was at and they grabby handsed at my dolls a few times. It wasn't good.

 

I normally would say, "No," but...

Well, just today, I took my doll out on a subway ride for the first time. I've only had him for a few months, so I was obviously a little nervous to have him on a crowded train, but he got through it just fine. Anyway, there was a mother with a small child who sat across from me on the way home, and I noticed at one point that the mother kept pointing to my doll and smiling and talking to her little girl, and the girl was smiling, too, very interested in my doll. They didn't talk to me or anything, but somehow seeing that my doll made the kid smile just sort of... warmed my heart up a little bit (as cheesy as that is). This actually happened again with another family later on, and it was just really sweet, since the only looks I got from adults were those weird, 'What the heck is that thing?' looks.

I'm not around children often, but I think after that experience, I would let a kid handle my doll under my careful supervision. If the kid seemed particularly naughty or rambunctious, then I wouldn't, but as long as I was right there, and the kid was being polite, I'd let him/her hold him. Probably wouldn't let him/her change his clothes or anything, though.

 

Well, after I've seen what my cousin's did my Abbey monster high doll, I wasn't too keen on letting people handle my Willow. She's a much more expensive doll that if, dropped or messed up, I'd have the tendency to make the mother replace what was messed up or pay for it to get redone. Sometimes, I don't mind people touching my things, but my family has a tendency to break things and nothing is done about it. Specially if you want someone to pay for it :/

 

I generally wouldn't let strangers handle my dolls unless they're fellow doll collectors, regardless of age. My doll stays in her box and gets put up in the closet when kids are visiting.

However, my son, who's six and autistic, is allowed to play with her occasionally if supervised. Mostly he just wants to make her "talk" to his Toy Story 3 Woody doll, which I'm a-okay with. (Anyone who's dealt with autistic children will probably know that pretend play is AMAZING for them, since it's not something that comes naturally. He was also non-verbal until last year, so pretending that they're talking? Worth a hundred dolls.) Since he loves anything that has mechanical parts, he's fascinated with her poseability. However, when she goes in her box or I tell him to stop, he knows she's off-limits.

Woody is his favorite toy ever, though, so it's not much of a problem. Apparently no resin doll can compete with the allure of Toy Story.

 

My friend has a two year old and a four year old who have both handled Fly. Very well behaved girls who when I said "you can't touch her face" they listened MUCH better than some adults I've met, and just held her in their laps and told me she was pretty

 

This exactly. If a child I wasn't familiar with wanted to touch my dolls I would probably let them, reluctantly, but be sure to tell them to be super gentle. I know a few children who are really rough and mean, and I would try to make sure my dolls were out of sight so that the question wouldn't come up because I have a problem telling other people's kids "no". If I knew that the child was gentle and would handle my dolls with care, I wouldn't care at all for them to touch them under supervision.

 

i would never let children handel my dolls , its not that i say that children cant handel dolls but i dont like small children so i wont let them handel my dolls

 

I only let my trusted dolly friends handle my doll, seeing as I know they understand how to handle them. I think I'd trust most children with a doll over most adults though, seeing as adults outside the hobby tend to like to make fun of dolls and mess with them.

 

No, absolutely not. I don't see any reason why they should. I'd be happy to buy some gifts of inexpensive dolls and toys for kids to play with, or put on a movie for them, if for some reason someone came to visit me and had to bring a child along. But in general, no one but me is going to touch my bjds.

 

We always try to work out something. There are "Mommy's" dolls, and there is "Elizabeth's" doll. The first ones Elizabeth may kiss on the hair and the dolls hug her on mommy's permission. The second is MSD size Impldoll hybrid with one of my first face-ups, who follows Elizabeth everywhere, has only 3 fingers left and has to be bald and naked most of time. Teddy bears and Barbies do not work. Her "best friends" are a Cow and a Hippo. Well.. I keep all the broken-off fingers in a small bag.