To want to stab whoever invented teddy bears, in the eye, with a spork?

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And do equally terrible things to the eejits who buy my children different coloured teddies. I mean, ffs, it's not like these people have not had children close in age. They should know that you do not do different.

I'm this close to burning every single sodding bear.

My kids have different coloured things...they argue about whose is whose when they are identical!! Go figure

Or do I just have particularly awkward kids??

Huh?

I always buy different colours so they know who's whose

DoOin if you get a taste for burning teddies then I have about 1000 more that I can post for you to torture

Identical things are given distinguishing features, duh! Do you know nothing?

Funnily enough it's always dd2's things that have these features. It is dd2's stripey dog that only has one eye and dd2's hot water bottle that is missing it's bow. Dd1's things are all in perfect condition Dd2 does not seem to care. She loves her one eyed dog.

I just don't get what they're for

I mean, they'd be nice for DD to cuddle and all, but she only bothers with two bears and one comforter, and the rest of her stuffed toys are effectively clutter. Clutter which is neither useful nor beautiful.

Clutter which people have lovingly bought for her and therefore I would feel like a mean heartless bitch for getting rid.

Oooh a soft toy BBQ?? Give me an adress to dontate

I love sporks.
much more useful than teddies.

I think they are for stealing off of siblings and fighting over Fliss.

Dd2 does not want a large brown bear. She wants a white one. She took dd1's. Dd1 also does not want a brown bear, so took the one eyed dog and held it to ransom, until the white bear was returned, so dd2 took Lala Lucy back off of dd1. Dd1 took dd2's hot water bottle.

Everyone atm has the correct things, but dd2 still wants a white bear. The brown bear has been sent to live in jail so now dd2 has no bear [head/desk]

Leave the teddies alone

I always loved teddies as a kid and I still love them now

I hated dolls with a passion though and still do

Far too girly for a little tomboy like I was Lol

God I hate them! WHY! Fliss you are spot on. They are neither useful nor beautiful but you can't get rid of them for the guilt.

Although, even though I think 99% of teddies are vile things, I'm still far too attached the the eleventy million stuffed animals I owned as a child to even think about getting rid of them. We had an entire village in our bedroom, they all had lives, families and increasingly soap-opera-esque stories, I can't split up the family of the ginger tomcat married to both a softly spoken lamb and a white cat (deaf) - they split the week, but had a triple bed , and two daughters, one from each woman, both kittens (Looking back, he was a bit of a cunt, really) or the crotchety old duck and the kindly pig, or the adorably daft rabbit/ridiculously clever squirrel couple! Or the rabbit family who all had to have the sequence "ops" in their name, so we had Hops, Flopsy, and then (stuck for ideas) Bopsabit...

Actually I do actively cull DS's teddy collection at intervals, if only because I'll get attached to the sodding things if I keep them too long. Some of them are horrible. There's a Christmas bear which reads you a creepy story, and a teddy which looks exactly like an ewok.

I've just been up to check on them because I am slattern and just realised I needed to collect uniforms to wash they were quiet.

After all the fighting over teddies they have opted to sleep hugging each other . This is good, of course, if slightly confusing. Not less than an hour ago they were each intent on causing the other life threatening injuries.

It's the fault of the teddies.

Bertie what a fantastic tale! I think that Ginger Tom knew what he was doing when he married the softly spoken lamb and the deaf white cat - obviously couldn't communicate and plot behind his back.

I once woke up to hearing my three-year-old bawling his head off because he had woken up and found the 'wrong' teddy in bed with him. "I DON'T LIKE HIM, YOU SEE! HE KNOWS I DON'T LIKE HIM AND HE GOT INTO BED WHILE I WAS ASLEEP!"

I can joyfully contribute a giant (at least 1 metre tall) bear 'kindly' offered to my 1 year old this christmas to any BBQ going. I'm going to have to offload it to a charity shop I think-the DCs share a tiny bedroom knee deep in junk-and the bear will sadly never be played with-it just gathers dust on the floor.

Oh God, I was ranting about this to DP last night.

I have just seperated all the 'dust catchers' from all the actually worthwhile toys and they fill up an entire large rhino flexi-tub. DD is only just 13 months! Some of them are truly hideous and Bertiebotts, I know EXACTLY how you feel about that sodding christmas story bear. Its gone in the Christmas decs box so I only have to see it once a year.

However, my darling teddy, Debenhams (guess where I got him from?) does get pride of place in DDs toybox because we've been together nearly 27 years. And Malvolio the philandering, skateboarding rocker bunny watches over DD as she sleeps.

YABVU teddies are fantastic that is all there is to it.

I'll raise you all a 2m long, neon pink unicorn

It lives at my parents as I can't stand to have it in the house and when they're there they drag the bloody thing all over the house and invariably ride it down the stairs resulting in a child lying on the floor of the hall bawling because 'He pulled it from under me and I FEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OFF'

According to Newsround recently people with teddy bears are happier!

Step away from the teddies and no one will get hurt

Teddies are not the problem - unruly children are, give them away and you will soon see that the teddies are no problem at all.

We have lots of teddies. I am not happier because of them. Brown bear is still in jail for being the wrong colour

She now wants a pink bear, not a white bear. Dd1 also wants a pink bear, not a white bear but is unwilling to give the white bear to dd2.

The problem is dd1 was here first (obviously) and we amounted a huge amount of teddies as gifts. She was the first baby born in our family since my youngest sister who was 18 when dd1 came along, so she was massively spoilt. By the time dd2 came along we had that many teddies no-one bothered buying any for her. Dd1 remembers that all the teddies are hers. Dd2 gets annoyed that she does not have the same amount of teddies as dd1 and so steals dd1's.

So for those of you who like them, dd1 has plenty going spare, but I must warn you she may kidnap one of your pets until you return her stuffed animals.

It is most definitely the teddies. How very dare you blame the children and me

i like ds animals as he calls them under bed a single is full of them, but tis right they are clutter, but he does sort of rotate them, at the moment micky mouse and an ikea spider go everyehere , but only in house he is 6 now!

My friend was delighted when her DD was eventually persuaded to part with a ghastly large soft toy. It was given to the PTA and used as a prize in the teddy tombola. Unfortunately, the DD won it back, now thinks it's their destiny to be together for always and will never part with it.