I'm guessing your friend doesn't have children? so she doesn't realize the example she is setting by not be careful with toys, regardless of their cost. I'm also guessing she just got caught up in the silliness of the moment and is now really sorry and a little embarrassed at her actions. I hope you can forgive her. I'm sure she's "learned her lesson." [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]
I think it would also be good to have a little chat with your daughter about how even those some adults misbehave doesn't give you (the child) the right to ___________ . (Although one time my DD actually blurted out in Target that someone misbehaving deserved a time-out, so choose your words carefully)
I feel so bad for Kaede is she alright? I hope she feels better!! [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]
No doll was seriously injured in last nights activities! Thankfully!
I know my friend didn't mean it and she did stop when I asked her to... I felt bad for yelling and even feeling irked... she's really a very good person.
I was just wondering if I handled the situations correctly, what I might have done differently and how to prevent it in the future... aside from what my child came away with from the situation.
Everything seems to be back in order here... Avalyn is back to playing with her doll as if nothing happened... talking to her and carring her around... she hasn't tried to repeat the action since last night... lets hope it was just a fluke that will never happen again!
Eeek! I had something similar happen when a friend took Molly, and started swinging her around by the legs (one leg in each hand), jump rope style. YIKES! As calmly as possible, I told her that was not the way to treat my doll.
I guess the good news is that AG dolls hold up very well! Molly might have been a little dizzy, but other than that she is still okay. [img]smile.gif[/img] It's the type of experience that makes you glad the dolls were intended for children!
Hopefully your friend just wasn't thinking and won't do that again.
Ya does she have children? if she doesn't I can see why she didn't do it to harm the doll. I don't think she relizes that thos things are just something you don't throw around like a old shoe. Hopefully she will never do it again. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I'm sorry this happened! Good thing no doll was harmed and no girl was scarred. [img]wink.gif[/img]
When I was little, I remember my friend playing with bitty baby roughly, throwing her around and catching her, etc. I freaked out but didn't want to tell her not to, since she was going through a tough time (parents divorce and new baby step-sister). I felt very insulted though, since I treated all of my dolls like they were real! I understand how upset you must have been!
I'm not sure I Understand what you guys were doing....but I think you handled the doll situation just fine.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Forgive me for butting in here, but I think that THIS was the start of the problem! Of course your friend was absolutely out of line to use the doll as a weapon, but it's the idea of play-fighting so your little girl can "protect" you - somehow that seems inappropriate to me.Originally posted by Miss_Nellie_OMalley:
Well anyways, we all started to kinda goof off... pretending to kick each other for the sake of getting my little one to "come rescue us" from the other person (its really cute, how she gets all protective).
I have three sons, and when they were much much younger the friends of the older two thought it was really fun to play-fight, wrestle etc. and get the youngest - then only 3 - involved. I told them then that they thought it was cute when he was 3, but what about when he was 6? Then they would just think he was a pain. Also, I was very uncomfortable with having him see fighting that was pretending to be real. This is a violent enough world, and kids will rough-house enough with their own age group, without initiating it ourselves or having older kids start up with much younger ones.
Forgive me for butting in - I'm just an old grandma now and I hate to think of my little 2-year-old granddaughters in another year having to "settle fights" between adults!
I think you handled the situation well, after all you paid good money for your daughter's doll. I wonder why your friend did that if she knows how much the doll means to your daughter. [img]confused.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img]
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