to refuse to buy a dress for DD's teddy bear

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Even though it is apparantly its birthday. DD dragged me into the bear workshop and demanded a frilly dress for her teddy as its his party today

I point blank refused and now I'm told "the worst mummy ever and teddy will be embarrassed at his party and its all YOUR FAULT if he dosen't enjoy his birthday" (yes she did say HIS but teddy still wants frilly dress it seems)

at least its a dress she desires and not the faux satin pink animal print pyjamas which are also available in said bear emporium!

We enjoy going shopping for the dolls/bears at charity shops - though I always feel a bit guilty at taking them away from people that might need them for 'real' babies :( I try to make up for it by donating lots of stuff back to them!

My DD demanded an eyes patch for her elephant when he lost an eye. My mother provided this, however it falls off a lot, we have to find the eye patch before we go out otherwise elephant will be embarassed.

Egad, the build-a-bear workshop is SOOO expensive

DD (6) is still into this, and I swear some of the teddy clothes cost more than I would spend on DD's clothes

I tend to be quite hard-hearted about it tbh

Baby clothes from ebay or charity shop - a brilliant idea

Sit her down with a bag of offcuts/old clothes, some scissors and lots of ribbons and hair elastics.

tell her that it is imperative Teddy has a dress.

Resist urge to take over and go and MN with a cup of tea.

Don,t cave over buying tat. It's the thin end of the wedge. Make her sing for her supper

My dd went to a Build a Bear party. My dh gave her 10 pounds to buy a dress for her bear and assumed hat dd would return with 8 pounds in change. In fact dd spent 10 pounds on a dress which is now lying on the bedroom floor and is ripped to shreds.
Charity shops are a brillianty idea.

I know Teddy. He hangs out with me and my naturist friends. He's asked me to tactfully let you know that he doesn't really want a dress.