Children handling your dolls?

I let my little cousin play with my boy all the time, she loves him! I perfectly fine letting people hold and pose Riku.. As for strangers, maybe a bit less.

 

Never. Never. Never. In a million years.

 

I don't trust kids enough to let them touch my stuffed animals, much less something as expensive and potentially breakable as my BJD. Most kids are just too careless, particularly when it comes to things that aren't theirs. =/

 

I don't like people in general handling my dolls. If it's my mother or my friends handling them (IE, they know what they're doing), then I'm okay with it.

I'm dreading going to Indiana to see my father in a few weeks, because my younger siblings will be there. I'm not used to being around children, and I will have my Tanning El with me. My younger brother was never really good with the whole "This is mine, not yours, so please don't touch it" rule, and nearly broke my Gameboy a few years ago. I'm not especially looking forward to an encounter with a nearly-$700 doll.

(I don't like hitting people but they will get a visit from the Smack Fairy if they do indeed take Amel from his shelf >< )

 

It really depends on the child. I have a 2 year old son who is an angel when it comes to my bjd. She came into our home 2 weeks ago and I've already taught him how to be careful with her and that when mommy isn't around we can't get her out. He's sooo very cute about it. We even have to tuck her in every night before we head off to bed and he gently kisses her on the top of the head. His toys he is soooo destructive with but my doll he knows the rules. I think its all about how the kids are taught to behave around expensive things.

Other kids I would dread being around my doll. I have a cousin that has a 4 year old little girl and I would be so afraid if she even looked at that doll the wrong way.

Like many others have said.. it all depends on the child

 

Every little kid I've been around has had trouble keeping their hands off of me, can you imagine my doll? O_O My g/f's 2 year old nephew kept pulling my hair and grabbing me in..places. >.>; oh, and seeing the way he handles his toys(throwing them at me/the cats/my g/f/the wall/the floor)...no way in HELL.
He'd have to break my limbs to get ahold of my doll.
My cousins are spoiled brats that think if they like something that it's theirs, so they'd probably try to steal it from me. One of my cousins is almost 10 years old and she still thinks it's okay to make off with my kitty purse. >.> *shakes head*

My doll would be destroyed in the hands of any kid I know, and I'd be too wary to let strangers touch her.

 

Yeah...kids around my dolls make me nervous. I was at a doll meetup that was at a local park and this one girl just walked into our gazebo and started staring very closely at our dolls. Don't get me wrong, I love kids...but when you have thousands of dollars worth of dolls, you just don't want to risk anything. Thankfully her parents wandered over and apologized for her running over there like that. I just don't want to know what would have happened if one of my dolls had fallen. I guess it depends on the child...even older people can be clumsy. I won't leave my dolls around my dad when he's drunk again...he smacked one of dolls in the face on purpose!

 

I wouldn't want children playing with a BJD of mine. I'd probably get anxious if anyone other than me played with him. But then, I'm also a first time BJD owner and I haven't even gotten my doll yet, so that feeling could change. XD

 

My niece is always very-very carefull when I let her hold my doll. She thinks he's too girly to be a boy though, and I just let her go on thinking it since she doesn't need to know he's anatomicaly correct. XD

She also LOVES posing with him for pictures, she's just a little shutter-bug and critiques my photography.

 

I'd be willing to let kids handle my dolls, if they were respectful. I know that the kids I notice in public are usually the annoying and obnoxious ones that are, say, running through a restaurant screaming or playing tag with his brother in Target and running into you , but there are kids that don't try to break things on sight. I know, I was one of them. My kids will be growing up in a house of breakables (BJDs, sculpture, pottery, glass) so I would be willing to trust them with my dolls.

Of course, the same goes for adults as well. If they're rude, no way. If they're genuinely interested, I'd let them touch my dolls. Although I'd probably make the person sit down, just because I don't want to witness the "Oh, that's heavy" fumble.

 

I don't mind my little sister (5) or my neice (2) touching my dolls. but if they do, Yu or Mit is always on my lap, and I am always ready to re-direct a hand if they go for the face after forgetting not to :P otherwise, other then that, they're not allowed.. it's so cute though. when I first had Mitsu my neice would bring her babydolls over and touch Mitsu all gently and go "baby?" heh

 

My child is seven weeks old..I don't think he should be touching the dorrie thanks. Maybe when he gets older ^_^

 

During last year's vacation my grandmother said that she let a child from the neighbourhood play with my doll and I told her to stop immediatly. However, after I returned it happened again_^_"
I was in another room then and suddenly I heard a small child's voice in the house, so I immediatly went out and saw the door of my room open! Inside was a small girl, about 4-5 years old and my grandmother. The child was standing on one of my food miniatures! and pulling at my doll's feet. Gosh, I nearly had a heart attack;_; Fortunately nothing was damaged, but the conversation I had with my grandmother afterwards wasn't a nice one:/

 

well i have a strange dislike of children in general. mostly because they dont listen to me. but every now and then my dads friends come over and some one ends up bringing one of their kids. i let them play with faye and kandji (under my hawkeyes) and depending on wether faye has a face up or not, i might let them paint her face up. but there are a few of them that i dont even let look at my dolls because of something they did. *wimpers over kandjis pried off fingers*

 

For me it completely depends on the kid. I let my five-year-old goddaughter hold and move them around a little. I don't let my fourteen-year-old cousin (not so much a kid, but still) *breathe* hard around them.

She is so careful with them, it's adorable; he's been known to be the cause of death for a many a plant-- it was a learning experience for all. *shrugs* It's all about which kid.

 

My 6 ("almost 7!" hehehe) year old niece loves my dolls. There are only a couple I don't let her play with because I love the faceups (or they're limited), but other than that I have no qualms about her playing, dressing, or changing wigs on my dolls. And she loves the fact that you can change their hair! XD I think it really does depend on the child, though. There are a few kids I know I wouldn't let near my dolls...

 

My 6 year old niece loves my dolls ^_^ I have a little area set up for my dolls and I let her play with them. she makes sure to be extra careful with them cause she knows how precious they are to me. even my nephew sometimes takes good care of my boy Kraven for me. they just don't handly my other big boy which is a model boy cause he's too big for them lol. but it depends on the kid though ^_^

but it is really cute how well they treat my dolls. they always ask questions about them too and wont touch them without asking me first which is rather nice since I never told them not to touch them without asking ^_^ kids can be sweeties... well most the time XD lol

 

Never again.

I was over at my sister's this weekend, and her friend's nephew came by. He's eight and I have never met him before. I stuck away from him, since I usually don't do well with children his age. While I was reading my book, I had Kana next to me. This little boy comes up, hops on the bed, reaches OVER me and grabs her before I can even respond.
He immediately started to pull on her hair and smudge his fingers over her face and then proceeded to question me about why she moved...I nearly had a heart attack. Thankfully I saved her before I she was thrown across the room (I saw this earlier with his spider man action figures.)
I also found out later that my sister had told him NOT to touch Kana.
Not going to be nice to that kid anymore...

But I don't think I'd ever let anyone under the age of at least 10 ever "Play" with her again.

 

Yeah, working in a place which has regular school party visits and observing children's general behaviour, it's amazing how little effect the words 'no'; and 'don't' have on children; that is to say, the words are usually totally ignored. They pick up and drop and knock over things, have absolutely no concept of what is precious and what is not, and ignore what you say entirely, be it polite request or flat out order.

Yup, I would never let any child touch my boys, for sure. They're too destructive.

 

Some kids yes and some kids no. I guess it just depends on the kid. I would let my 12 year old cousin handel my dolls, but he has no interest in them....hes too absorbed in his wrestling stuffs, but if he was I wouldent mind, he respects my stuff....yet there are SOME children that I know who would handel my dolls extreemly roughly, so I guess it just depends on the kid, and what there like.