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AIBU?

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Original poster

To wish grown ups wouldn't squish all my kids playdoh colours together?

33 replies

fuzzypicklehead · 05/02/2011 11:07

Very petty I know.

I know that most playdoh will eventually be

a) eaten
b) squished into my upholstery
c) tucked away in a dark corner where it will become a fossilized lump that will clog my hoover hose. or
d) squished together until it becomes the colour of... poo usually.

I accept all that. And I know it's educational for the kids to blend different colours to make new ones, etc. My DCs were given a really great playdoh set for christmas with loads of tools and cutters and a dozen or so little pots of lovely vivid colours with glitter, etc. We've been having a great time making little murals and scenes, etc.

So the other day we had a few other toddlers over to play and got out the playdoh thinking they could play together without doing the "mine mine mine!" thing. It was nice. Each child had a colour and we were making a nice picture together.

And I realized that one of the other grown ups was playing with the tools as well and was squashing several of the different colours into... a big pile of poo colour.

I fully expect that other kids may not take care of my kids toys while they play, and I make sure that anything really precious is tucked out of the way when we have friends over.

But AIBU to be a bit annoyed that another grown up was essentially ruining one of my kids toys?

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PandaG · 05/02/2011 11:08

that would have irritated me too!

CharlotteBronteSaurus · 05/02/2011 11:09

YANBU
my inner Monica was screaming to break free when my friend's DD mashed up our playdoh colours. And she's only 4 Grin.

MorticiaAddams · 05/02/2011 11:09

YANBU. Play-doh is great fun and will inevitably end up brown but leave that to the children who don't know any better. Adults should keep their colours separate.

EricNorthmansMistress · 05/02/2011 11:10

YANBU! How weird!

FabbyChic · 05/02/2011 11:11

I never allowed my children to have Playdoh! I like it myself, envy your kids.

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fuzzypicklehead · 05/02/2011 11:18

Phew! Glad I'm not the only one. I was tempted to leap across the toddlers and say "No, you're playing with it wrong!"

And then, of course it wouldn't fit back into the pots properly and required combining of colours within pots, which also makes my teeth itch.

Sigh. My mum would say "See, This is why we don't have nice things."

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Original poster
fuzzypicklehead · 05/02/2011 11:20

Fabby, you can come over and play with our (now poo coloured) playdoh.

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Mumbybumby · 05/02/2011 11:20

YADNBU! I think I might have taken it away from her!

LittleMissHissyFit · 05/02/2011 12:11

Oh no, YADNBU! I would only let DS play with one colour at a time until he understood not to mash up all the colours together..

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 05/02/2011 12:13

Do you know, as I read your first post, I got a whiff of Playdoh as it used to be back in the 70s when I was a kid... proper stuff it used to be then, with a lovely smell...

Agree about the poo colour when it's squished though. It should be kept separate always...

This has taken me right back to my childhood... :)

LadyBiscuit · 05/02/2011 12:16

I am like you littlemiss - frankly I am amazed at how Monica-like I am since becoming a mother Blush

I thought I was going to be laid back but it seems not.

YADNU - you should have taken it away from her until she learns to play with it properly

bronze · 05/02/2011 12:16

I don't let them play with it for that reason.

I'm the child who got upset at her fourth birthday party because people were using my new felt tip pens and going over the black with red etc and ruining the tips

pigletmania · 05/02/2011 12:17

YANBU at all, I have a tough time trying to get my dd 3.11 not to mash the colours together, it drives me crazy, to see an adult doing it Hmm. I am constantly telling dd 'one colour only' I sound really quite anal Grin

DurhamDurham · 05/02/2011 12:18

"You're all about the fun!" as Phoebe said to Monicoa Grin

pigletmania · 05/02/2011 12:18

lol bronze Grin, I knew a girl like that at school was it you Smile

DurhamDurham · 05/02/2011 12:18

or rather Monica!!

KatyMac · 05/02/2011 12:19

Oh so glad I'm not the only one like this

pigletmania · 05/02/2011 12:19

I wasent like that at the time but she hell am like it now. My heart pounds when dd uses two colours together

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fuzzypicklehead · 05/02/2011 12:24

I may keep the poo coloured lot aside and restrict her to using it in the future!

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Pheebe · 05/02/2011 12:30

YABU, its playdoh ffs. She hasn't 'ruined' your childs toy. Playdoh should be all about the creativity. Anally trying to keep colours separate is stifling that imo. Perhaps you should keep a set just for visitors if it bothers you that much...

maryz · 05/02/2011 12:36

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inthesticks · 05/02/2011 12:38

Mine are long past the playdoh stage but I never had this problem because I used to make it. Dead easy and you can make huge quantities for very little cost. It keeps months but if it gets ruined it's easy to replace. The DCs enjoy "helping" to make it as well.

bronze · 05/02/2011 12:59

Pheebe I don't think we need to worry about stifling an adults creativity by stopping them playing with a childs playdough

Piglet, I doubt it. I wasn't confident enough to complain about it. Just took myself off and cried

pigletmania · 05/02/2011 13:09

I find when the colours get mixed it goes all funny

nickelthenaughtybutnicefairy · 05/02/2011 13:17

it's fine for the child to mix up the colours and make them pooey - but adults should know better.

any adult who mixes the pooey colour should have counselling.
i'm not joking - they obviously have some childhood problems that need addressing.

YANBU

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