to use bondage tape on dd and dsd?

[Rachog]

Dd and dsd both 4 are into the little mermaid at the moment. Dd found a Christmas stocking in the toy box and was wearing it like a fin.

This of course caused arguments because dsd wanted a fin too. I remembered that I had a roll of pink bondage tape in the grown up toy box so I used it to bind their legs from knee to ankle leaving their feet Aw flippers.

The girls were made up with their mermaid tails and had lots of fun but when dp came in he was less than impressed.

The tape is like punk plastic on a roll that sticks to itself but not clothes or skin. It's quite flexible and easily torn to remove it.

So was I being unreasonAble?

Sorry, but it is nothing like co-ban or plumbers' tape!

I really hope none of you ever treat my dogs or my sink if you cannot tell the difference!

Bondage tape:

www.flickr.com/photos/73619249@N00/3218695723/

Coban tape:
www.conney.com/Product_-3M-Coban-Self-Adherent-Wrap_50001_10102_-1_60648_11255_11253_11251

Looks like coban would not be good for mermaid tails!

Actually, I think it was wrong. If one day they realise, they might not laugh. I think you overstepped a boundary. What will you do if they start talking about mummy's special pink tap and their teacher knows what it is and asks questions.

Then I will tell the teacher exactly what we did. I wouldn't try to hide it as I don't think it is shameful or illegal in any way.

The dd's didn't think anything of it, its just like wrapping pink ribbon round their legs. Nothing says it can only be used in sex games.

Really? So it has gone from you binding their legs with bondage tape and their other parent not liking it, to you binding their legs with bondage tape and their other parent not liking it and you telling a load of strangers about it on the internet, to you doing all of this and telling their teachers.

They either grow up, find out what you did, and not care, or they grow up, find out what you did, and do care. If the latter, the fact you also told their teachers will make it worse.

And it is their feelings that matter here surely? Not whether or not you get your actions approved.

So, if you tied up your partner with a scarf, then at a later date let your child put that scarf on a snowman/use it as 'horse reins'/make a hammock for their toys, would that be wrong?

vash the OP's comment about telling the teacher was in response to another poster asking what she would do if the girls knew what it was and told the teacher! She's not planning to announce it after half term

TBH I think (and would hope) by the time they are old enough to know and understand what bondage tape is they'll be mature enough to see the innocence in what the OP did.

She simply made mermaid tails - and a better version than my - 2 legs in 1 of my PJ's bottoms with the other leg wrapped round the waist to create the rolled top the fins have - version.

if you said to the girls "hang on I have some pink tape that will work"... fine...

how on earth would they even think to talk about it as "mummys special pink tape".. unless op said "hang on girls, I have something in my adult toy box that daddy normally uses to tie me up with"... somehow I doubt the OP said it that way!

Their feelings were that they had fun playing mermaids. If they even remember it when they are older than I am sure their lives won't be ruined by the fact mum got inventive with some tape that was marketed for adult fun.

I often use things for other purposes than their original intention. I use toilet roll to blow my nose, the sieve to get grass out of the paddleing pool, old tshirts to dust, once even a sock for a bandage in an emergency.

and your floor is chuck?

Get's DS to eat - well in his bedroom only.

Chuck We're screwed here. The boys can't have dinner on table, sofa or floor

I wouldn't even know it was a sex toy unless someone told me. I'd ask what craft shop you got it in.

Great idea

So if the OP is entirely convinced that the girls, when grown up, will not be concerned that they had their legs bound with bondage tape, what is she asking AIBU about?

never knew such a thing existed but im a prude.

i can see both yours and your dp's point of view.

i couldnt/wouldnt so would react as your dp did,but as i said-im a prude

Will ask again, what is the purpose of bondage tape in crafting? As far as I'm aware, tape used in crafting that sticks to itself is the same as plumbers' tape, not bondage tape, and shouldn't be used to bind anybody's legs, for any reason.

Fuck I didn't think about that. They can't eat on the sofa, the floor, at the table, in our bed, on the stairs, in the car, at the computer desk..... Bollocks to it. They'll have to eat in the garden or hanging from the light fittings.

vash I think she asked because she is OK with it but her DP wasn't. Some agree with her, some her DP. Still no answer to whether she IBU or not.

chuck hanging from the light fittings. Now there's one to attempt to knock off the list of safe places.

YANBU. It's just a roll of plastic. I've wrapped naughty gentlemen up in cling film before, but I still use it to wrap my baps in to take to work.
It's possible to use the same item for sexual and innocent uses. Take winkies for example. A handy hose pipe to wee through or put out small fires with, but can also be used for rude night-time shenanigans. I hear.

I cannot understand that people think a 4 year old will a) remember and b) be scarred from having fancy dress made out of pink tape that is sold originally for bondage.

If she did this weekly ...well yeh but it's a one off?

I don't do bondage or crafting but pink coloured tape would yell 'craft' rather than sex at me innocent

you I know the cowboy guy who put the light fittings in - not going to go there!

Queen

but don't you realise the damage you have already done?..It's not about the bondage tape, it's the terrible burden that your children will have when they discover, one day, that you and a man had sex and you might have enjoyed it!

And this man did it with you more than once, and so you might have enjoyed it quite a lot, and you had children because of PIV sex...unless you used the turkey baster...ooh kitchen utensils as sex toys, what fun!

DS can still eat the dining table (it's fairly new and in the conservatory so somewhat exposed) but should probably avoid the kitchen floor, breakfast bar, sofa, spare room floor or bed, shower and just shouldn't even bother coming into our bedroom...

Tape for many uses, including car repairs and emergency plumbing. Or bondage.

You can also buy floral tape that is the same idea but I can't find a link for it right now.

QueenTiggy wraps her baps before she goes to work