Children handling your dolls?

I let children hold my dolls if they show an interest and ask politely. I sit with them and tell them the doll's name and show them how the doll can pose, change wigs and eyes, etc. I have other collectables besides ABJD's (antique dolls, for example) and I let children hold those as well. I think most children are curious and just want to know about the things they see. They are able to understand that some things are for children to play with and some things are not. I might feel differently if I lived at home with my parents and had bratty sibs to contend with, but I don't. The children who come into my house are more important to me than my stuff.

 

My daughter is very respectful of them. I let her change their clothes from time to time. Once in a while I notice different wigs on them too. LOL! BUT she is very careful with them, and someday wants one of her own. (Shes 10 BTW) My son on the other hand..... he is not allowed to touch them. He is like a bull in a china shop. LOL!

 

Uhh, well. I'd never let my niece touch my dolls, that's for sure.
See, she likes to torture me on purpose, so I could just see her being careless and breaking them...
As for the only other little kid I know of, my neighbor's daughter....she's two and likes to throw things....AT people....so she'd break my doll AND me.

 

I'm not around children very much, but when I am - uhmm, NO!

 

well I have had good experience and bad experience with it so Iguess I have to treat each situation differently but I guess I am going to be a little less willing in the future to le thtme handle my dolls..

 

Only if I knew the child to be mild manored and knew they would be very very very carefull.

 

all kids are different, my son asks to see mine sometimes, so I let him hold them, but hes careful and only with me right next to him, hes not rough with them.

 

i let my litle sister hold my boy a little but i get realy nervious and i dont go far from her when shes holding him. i tell her that she has her dolls that she sold play with not ming.

~Kat

 

>_>; I'm not comfortable with kids touching my stuff...I know that when I get Larue here in a few weeks, it's gonna be hand-offs for a while...and hands-off forever to little children! >_<

 

luckily ther is no kid around my home so i've never been bothered by this question.

however, if kids do come to visit, i'm sorry that it's beyond their limits if they touch my boys. i don't even like adults, who are not doll owners, handle my boys, not to mention kids.

a definite NO.

 

I can't stand a majority of kids, so probably not based on that alone. However, if it were a child I knew was well behaved and could understand when I told them it was expensive and special to me, I'd let them hold my doll... supervised.

 

I have a six-year-old little sister. She was one of those children who would break things (not even on purposely) and eat everything she could get her hands on.

But I know how she is, and I know her moods. Occasionally I don't mind her holding my dolls as long as I'm there. (If you saw the way she cried when she broke one of my resin figures of Chii, it would have broke your heart...and I wasn't even upset! She was so scared that I was going to be mad.)

I know she'd feel the same way if something happened to one of my dolls, so I don't mind her touching them or holding my minis (an SD would weigh her down O_o) as long as I'm there.

 

During my last photoshoot, the neighbour's kids and their friends kids (aged from 2 to 5 is my guess) were running around. The older little girl was all 'what are you doing? Ooh, can I see the photos?'
One of the little ones, hugging her own baby doll, almost as big as her, went "DOLLIIIIIIIE! " when she saw Haku and ran over, and looked at her, totally fascinated. She then reached a hand, and I let her touch. So first she petted Haku's cheek a little, but then quickly moved to her hair and petted her so very gently. I was pleasantly surprised. Then she ran back to her mom giggling, so I moved Haku's arm in a wave. Her mom pointed out the dollie is waving, so the little girl turned around and waved too and went "BAI BAAAAI! "

And then I died of the cuteness.

 

I let some children handle my dolls. Children I know.
Once when I was on a photoshoot, I had a Pullip with me, and I left her briefly unattended sticking out of my purse, and a little girl walked up, took her out of my purse, and broke her arm off. >__< The kid's mother was standing right there and didn't even apologise or anything. :/

That said, I do let a few kids I know handle my dolls. I nanny for this girl, and although she's energetic (she acts like any 7 year old ^__^) , I know that she obeys me well enough not to break my dolls. She loves fairies and elves, so I'd often bring my Sharmin, my Misia, my Elf Ttori, and my Juri '06/DD to her house. She also loves to play with my two Bambicrony dolls. I'm especially okay with her playing with Natalya (Juri '06/DD) because the Dollfie Dream body is so sturdy.

I also bring my Bambicrony dolls to my cashier job and set them next to the register..I like to doodle them in the off times. Occasionally a little kid will come up and want to play with the doll...If the kid seems well-behaved enough, I'll say yes. I've only said no to one kid, and the reason I had to say no was that she randomly kicked a guy in the crotch when she walked up to the register. She seemed like a brat. :/

 

The only little kid I've allowed to handle Saoirse, is my step-sister.
I totally trust her handling anything I own, because she's gentle, and if I tell her to be extra careful, she's extra extra careful.

I trust her more then I trust any adults. (Except for my doll collecting Grandmother). ;D

 

I went to dinner with a bunch of friends and brought Daze along to show a couple friends that I hadn't seen in a long time, one of which I knew would adore them. (I told Chippy she'd want him to buy her one but noooo he didn't listen) But my friend Chip brought his little sister along and I got stuck next to her. Normally I wouldn't mind. She's a sweet, highly intelligent five or six year old who is normally very good with other people's things, but that night I could tell there'd be trouble. Sure enough, five seconds after I set Daze upon the empty table, she spilled her water. I was quick to pick him up (its amazing how fast one's reflexes work when something precious and expensive is in danger) but since she ruined her coloring book, I was now her source of amusement. Which meant that she kept bugging Daze. Finally I said "Okay, he's tired. It's time for him to take a nap." And put him back in my bag.

So yeah... kids who aren't out for mischief are okay, but anything else comes nowhere near my boy.

 

Your sister sounds like a great kid, to care so much and be uspet for breaking something not hers. (my sisters at that age no way! they were to rough, fortunately it was a long time before ABJD)

Many kids seem to lack the respect for other people and their belongings, a few kids I watched did not seem to have any conscience, but there are some great kids out there too.

 

Unless I get 'creep' feeling, Ill let almost anyone hold Xan; as for children, my basc rule of thumb would be 'would I let them hold a baby?' if Iwould, they may hold Xan.

 

I wouldn't want them to, personally; I've got sort of an issue with people touching anything of mine, though. (Unless they're my friends. Then it's okay. But my younger cousins? No way.)

Though, if they -did- manage to get their hands on Kami-chan, I'd just set a few guidelines of some sort and kinda supervise. >.>;

 

Not yet, but I plan on bringing my dolls over to my parent's place next time I come over, with four of my siblings that live there ranging between the ages of 3-15.

I'm not totally sure how they'll handle it. When my teenage siblings were younger, they were terrible with breakable things and I didn't trust them with my valuables at all. Now that they're older, they've probably grown out of that, but I don't know for sure. My six year old brother I definitely trust, he can be very gentle when you explain it to him. (Heck, I taught him how to put DVD's in our DVD player when he was barely two. XD)

But my almost-three-year-old sister... Probably not. When she shows her love, she is ROUGH. Quite a little sherman tank she is. XD; So, I guess I'll just have to hope for the best.

(I'm mostly going to bring my dolls over for my mom, who adores all kinds of dolls. When I first got my Obitsu Yayoi, I showed her the LUTS website to give her an idea of what these dolls are like. She told me to bookmark it. XD)