Would you let your kids play with your dolls?

In my experience, children are pretty much fine with my dolls, it's the adults that freak out when their child touches them. A child will ask to hold them and I'll say yes, the parent will come up and ask me about them, what are they, are they expensive, and when I say they're art dolls from Asia and are fairly expensive, they suddenly make their child hand them back and tell the kid not to touch my dolls. First off, I gave them permission, I'm not going to make you pay if they damage them. Secondly, when I tell kids to be careful, they usually are. And I'm keeping an eye on them, anyway.

I'm actually thinking of buying an inexpensive ABS starter doll for my cousin's 11-year-old as she seems to be interested in my dolls, but I don't see her that often, so I don't know if she'd still be into it if I did.

 

One thing I do want to say is: When I become a mother one day I will eventually be introducing my daughter (I'm saying daughter because I WANT to have a little girl of my own) to my dolls, and I can already imagine showing her the different dolls and helping her choose her first one, buying her American Girl dolls and BJD's alike, showing her how precious they are to me and how they'll last her a long, long time if she takes care of them. In a perfect world my daughter will love dolls as much as I do and hopefully will join me in the hobby...But it depends on her.

 

Sadly no, some parents just seem to skip over manners and good and appropriate behaviour etc. For example my niece and nephew whom I love dearly, don't get me wrong are allowed near them but not to touch them. They are aware that they cost me good money and that they have to be careful around them but I'm just not comfortable allowing them to hold them given past experience. My daughter knows all my dolls and happily fetches the required one if asked. She's so careful with them, probably more than I am to be honest! lol

Basically what my second post boils down to is depending on the personality of the child in question and age too, I let most children around my dolls just so long as they don't touch the face. Considering how my sister is, and the way she's bringing up her sweet baby I can't wait til my niece is old enough to be intro'd to my dolls too. XD

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it totally depends on the child and the doll.
Just like adults, if the child has clean hands and is well behaved and will return my doll (^_~) then I have no problem with them having a little play.
I am however not comfortable with little ones touching my big LS boy as his joints can be pretty vicious if he decides to snap back into place unexpectedly (got me a couple of times) so I tend not to let children who aren't mine touch him - mostly for safety reasons

 

I don't think I could let a kid hold one of my dolls. It would just make me too nervous. If I was a kid I'd want to touch the face and eyes so yeah not taking the risk.

 

I never plan on having children. I'm in my mid-twenties and this has been the case my whole life. Now, that being said, I have been in the situation where some lady brought her two children to a doll meet. She acted like there was something wrong with me when I didn't want her children to hold my dolls. I don't trust a whole lot of adults to be careful with them, I don't really want to have kids, who in many cases (not all, I know) not super careful with other people's things.

 

I love to play with my dolls and my daughter to join in. She is going on 10 but she has helped with posing, dressing, and tea parties with them since she was 7. I think it depends on how responsible your child is and gives them an opportunity for you to put trust in them. Good parenting, I think. If, however they show irresponsibility or are clumsy but they desire to play, make it a goal for both the parent and the child. It has been wonderful for us, it really gives us great memories.

 

No no no no no. In my head there is an infinity of 'no's' to this. I would die if a child touched one of my dolls. Some of them have been well-trained by their parents, but that seems like such a minority, and I couldn't possibly imagine letting one near a doll of mine. It gives me shudders just thinking about what could happen.

 

I never had kids, but I've shown kids my dolls, and I generally have a good sense of whether or not the child will be respectful and careful. I've never had a child mishandle my dolls, and none of them have ever been broken (touch wood).

 

Never ever in my entire life will i let my kids, or any kids, touch my dolls ;o

 

I've let children hold my dolls many times! Usually, they're very sweet towards my dolls, giggling like crazy when their wigs pop off and just enjoying them! However, there is always the feeling of dread that they could just choose to throw a doll across the room... Kids tend to just throw stuff. :/

 

I'm not having any children, but I think it would depend on the child and what they wanted to do with the doll and how old they were. I'd prefer to keep my dolls away from most people, because they don't have a good idea of how much the dolls cost and what is dangerous or not so bad ways of handling them. They really are not kids' toys. If kids want to play around with something, there are tons of better things for them than bjds!

But if someone of any age wants to hold them or are capable of being careful and handling resin bjds, then that's fine. I don't think children are any worse than adults, really. And if they really aren't capable of being careful, then, no matter what age, I wouldn't let them near.

 

My little two years old daughter touched my doll sometimes, but I was watching, how she cares.
And she was really carefully with them and gave me them back after looking.

But it really depends on the child and the age.I don't gave them every child.

 

I don't think I won't be able to trust children around something so expensive...even if they're really well-behaved kids! After all, kids sometimes tend to be a bit clumsy - they might accidentally drop the doll and break it. They wouldn't really understand the value, and if I were a kid, I'd just see the doll as another toy to play with.

 

If I had children I would definitely not let them play with my dolls. I barely let my boyfriend touch them ! I don't have any kids, but if I did and they wanted to play with a doll, I'd buy them a cheap doll like a Barbie. Looking back at when I was younger, I wasn't very careful with stuff. And that's okay, it's typical for kids, but all the more reason to give them toys that were designed for kids instead of a €200+ doll!

 

I'm not around children but if there were children around it would totally depend on the child and the child's interest in my dolls. I've seen toddlers handle things more delicately than a grown adult - so I don't necessarily think it's an age thing. I believe it comes down to personality, temperament and upbringing.

 

It depends on the kid. My daughter (turning six in one month and a day ) is very good with my dolls.... Not so much with her own lol. As long as she's supervised she can play with all but one of my dolls (that one is a mod project and when its done its free game for her to cuddle). My niece and nephew on the other hand need more than absent minded supervision, tho my niece a lot less than nephew lol.
The only issue with my daughter and my niece is they like to take the clothes off dolls and put new clothes on (some of my dolls are boys.....). Otherwise they really just like to have tea parties and stroke the dolls wig
The smaller the doll, the less I worry about kids handling them, so there's been at least 10 kids who have handled my pocket fairy, and a one year old has handled my Adamelli (little cutie tried to trade a video game and a stuffed animal for her XD)

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It really depends on kids, and mainly on their parents who teach them how to handle different things. My son does not care much about dolls, but I am trying to teach him what is right and what is wrong ) As for the other kids, I think I would rather want them to stay away from my dolls

 

My daughter is 14 years old and she has her own doll, so yes, she can play with my dolls.
My doll`s live in my daughter's room so that the dogs do not accidentally get them.

My son is 12, he likes to take pictures of my dolls and I know that he is a careful and not break them

 

If I had kids I would let them play with my dolls only if I trusted them to be careful with them (and I'd most likely watch them closely the first few times they play with them). This also applies to other people's kids. I wouldn't let anyone play with my dolls if I thought they'd break or ruin them. Oh, and I wouldn't let babies/toddlers play with my dolls because they could put the doll in their mouth and resin is toxic...

I actually hope (when I have kids some day) that my kids will be interested in the hobby too. So letting them play with my dolls when they're kids might get them interested in the hobby. Then we'd have a hobby in common that we could enjoy together.