We were very orderly children, weren't we? I think our mayhem got no further than the level of putting doll clothes on the cat.
I always did look with contempt on the younger siblings of classmates whom I saw with mangled/"modified" toys. Is this a crazy? Maybe taken to extremes; but the thing that pings me about the above is Casper arguing back about her right to her toys. She is five! She has no rights! The whole point of being the parent is that you get to say, "Only barbarians do that, and we're not barbarians."
I was a little surprised you let her play with the Sasha dolls so early; I think we didn't begin to acquire them till I was at least 8 or 9. I don't have as strong an attachment to them as you do, but if she hurt those dolls I'd be very angry with her -- on your behalf. Maybe it's better if they not be solo-play items till she's older, or till some point when she magically transmogrifies into an orderly child.
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Date: 2009-01-08 01:15 am (UTC)I always did look with contempt on the younger siblings of classmates whom I saw with mangled/"modified" toys. Is this a crazy? Maybe taken to extremes; but the thing that pings me about the above is Casper arguing back about her right to her toys. She is five! She has no rights! The whole point of being the parent is that you get to say, "Only barbarians do that, and we're not barbarians."
I was a little surprised you let her play with the Sasha dolls so early; I think we didn't begin to acquire them till I was at least 8 or 9. I don't have as strong an attachment to them as you do, but if she hurt those dolls I'd be very angry with her -- on your behalf. Maybe it's better if they not be solo-play items till she's older, or till some point when she magically transmogrifies into an orderly child.