What toys are banned in your house?

[Niyamamama]

Ds2 absolutely loves play-doh but I refuse to have it in the house anymore as it turns him into a screaming, raging beast. Every attempt goes the same way, Ds sees all the animal shapes and gets very excited and wants the giraffe. We choose a colour, roll out the play-doh and make the giraffe, all good so far and ds having a great time. Then every fucking time he will pull the giraffe's head off and scream "MY GIRAFFE!!" and fling himself on the floor to thrash and wail for at least 45 minutes before flipping the table and trying to stomp anything dd4 has made. Play-doh is now banned in my house until ds turns 18.

Bunchems here too. My daughter is mixed race and her hair tangles if you do so much as look at it wrong, so I'd hate to see what would happen if they got near her hair!.

Mine are a bit older, but does anyone remember that bloody , Bop It, Tap It electronic thing. We visited a relative one christmas and they gave it to the kids, one very long car journey home and I could have smashed that bloody thing! That got lost very quickly !!

OMG just looked up Bunchems, what a shit idea !!

I only allow playdoh on the tiled floor.

Slime is banned. Anything v tech with that annoying voice goes in the garden to die. DS is approaching an age where the Fisher price cookie jar will be making an appearance sans batteries.

Bath squirter things that get full of mould.

Mine are adults but the only thing I banned was for my daughter - Bratz dolls or anything with the Bratz image.

I hated the name, the brand logo and the dolls themselves were just nasty.

Play doh hater here aswell!

His keyboard has to be played at a low volume and the karaoke machine is only allowed on for short periods at a time.

Anything Peppa Pig, never let her watch it either.
Playdoh

Kinetic sand is allowed (I love it!) at the table only, but no play doh or slime.

No more LOL crap allowed in this house or Ryan's surprise eggs.

I banned Hama beads for a few years when DC1 and 2 were younger.
I was sick of them spending hours crearing something only to hear
"Mummy I've finished look at... waaaaaaahhhhh!!!"

Also banned horrific monotone keyboard DS2 was given at around 18 months.
Oh and that incredibly creepy I think Fisher Price jack in a box that's a farmer who pops up and makes an awful squealing sound, the kids were shit scared of it.

Any moulding substances were banned- falls on floor, gets in clothes and hair and carpet . It’s a nice novelty to experience at nursery, preschool, or in reception class!

Marbles-one son put one in his mouth just as son 2 pushed him in a temper tantrum and first son swallowed it
Mad rush to a&e and no I don’t know if it came out the other end
Slimy toy Dino egg things
Sand-the sand pit lived at gps house
Beads-another son put one in his ear and I didn’t know for 18 months when the gp pulled it out! (sorry son-I thought you where winding me up when you told me you had a pink bead in your ear)
Anything Pokemon-I hate pokemon

Toy guns, except waterpistols.

I HATE play doh but we have hard floors downstairs so I tolerate it.

That really made me laugh OP. Playdoh is currently popular in our house, but he is quite content for me to make cars that look like canoes and a (frankly phallic) MAN to go in it.

He loves pouring water and water tables, and that’s a no. Our garden is a building site. I am also strategically not introducing paint into our lives yet. When he was really little he had a music toy that he really loved but got completely overstimulated by. It was always a difficult decision as to whether I got the 10mins peace of him playing, but then had to deal with inevitable fall out...

Nothing now as DS is 16 but it used to be drum kit and recorder 😂

Glitter, slime, poster/acrylic paint, tiny beads, fimo/clay.

They are all activities that take 10 mins to set up, are abandoned after 6 mins and take 30 mins to clear up. Except for the bits you find on your good towels, and blocking the sink and in everyone's hair for a month afterwards.

Don’t care how ‘grumpy mum’ that makes me sound.

Poopsies
Bunchems
Those little sticky handed plastic men that come in party bags and stick to walls, leaving their sticky bastard hand prints behind

I feel a bit OTT not having a marble run but my dc would put the marbles in their mouths, either absent-mindedly or on purpose.

Bunchems because of the horror stories of them getting stuck in hair. Slime and other messy things are a no no.

We do have a nerf gun armoury though. No issues with toy guns in our house. Just not allowed to shoot at people. Targets only. (Or daddy's bottom cos it's funny )

Glitter - we still do craft stuff....but glitter can fuck all the way off.
Toy guns - DH is military. And it’s important for us that the DCs know that guns are only for people who are trained properly to use them ie soldiers like daddy, police etc.
Slime - nasty, sticky crap that gets everywhere anddis impossible to wash out of children’s hair when they start lobbing it at each other

Mousetrap game - takes far too long to set up and doesn't work properly. The old one we had as children was much better.

Slime.

Basically any sexist crap like Barbie dolls, replica guns, toy hoovers and anything in hideous pink.
My DDs are grown up now, but thankfully when they were kids there was much less gender stereotyping, and far more neutral educational toys than seems to be the case nowadays.
I think my autistic elder DD would have been pushed into the transgender sexist nonsense for liking short hair, trousers, trains and Lego, if she’d been young now. Fortunately, back in the 80’s, nobody was trying to pigeonhole kids into narrow gender boxes. She went on to do a maths degree and set up home with her boyfriend, while working in risk analysis.

Anything slime related (yes daunt that includes "dinosaur poo)
Recorder
Loom bands

I don't remember slime being a thing when mine were very young although I know it was around when I was a teenager.

That's the thing I would have banned. Play doh was played with at preschool, but they never even asked about it at home. I'd probably have confined it to the kitchen, where it would have been easy enough to clean up.

Anything messy! Always hearing about "messy play this" and "messy play that", fuck that for a game of soldiers. What's wrong with tidy play? They tip water over each other in the bath so it's fine

Anything too noisy.
Someone got dd a recorder for Xmas, it's still on top of the fridge freezer in the packaging 🙈
I'm an awful mum!