Am I? Baby playing with bin!

[newmummytobe79]

I may be out of turn saying this - so please let me know your thoughts.

Baby has started pulling over/tapping/trying to get things out of our bin ... and I now think I know why!

It seems that whilst MIL is looking after baby (this is not a bashing thread as I get on very well with inlaws) she has started playing a new game which 's me.

I think I handled it ok though!

MIL pulled in the kitchen bin (which had a new liner but still had remnents of food down the sides etc) and started putting babies toys in there as if it was a game! Of all the games you can play with a child, putting their toys in a bin is not top of my list ... or on it at all!

I was shocked, but simply explained that baby has started pulling our bin over and would she mind if I put it back in the kitchen. She said 'no that's fine' and nothing more was said.

AIBU to find this very odd behaviour? And unhygenic at least!

Or am I being over-protective?

No yanbu
But I think bins are disgusting. So many people don't seem to actually care

It's a great game if her bin is very clean!

why would someone do that? Babies chew their toys, would she want to chew singing that had been in the bin?

Ds loves emptying containers so I put his toys in a basket for him to empty, not just hand him the dirty bin.

Yanbu.

Germs everywhere on bins !

No no no no.

YANBU

that's fucking disgusting!

why?!

I'm just very shocked and grossed out by that!

(and i'm definitely not a clean freak btw, I think germs are very important)

YANBU
It definitely would not be on the top of my baby games list

Erm no odd

If she is my mum you can probably eat out of the bin (and the toilets) and it would be cleaner than any restaurant table you have ever been to,
if she is my dad I can see your point...

I'd eat my dinner out of mil's bin LeMous

It's pretty disgusting as, no matter how clean her bin is, it's a bad habit with bins in general.

I tell my DS off for trying to lick his knife for the same reason (it's also uncivilised), even though the knives he uses are all blunt table-knives.

Does she have a habit of not thinking things through?

No, YANBU, it doesn't really matter how clean her bin is, she is encouraging the baby to play with bins, which firstly, are not usually clean and secondly noone needs a baby who rummages around in the rubbish, or posts non-rubbish items in the bin. My DB once lost a full set of plane tickets which he believes his DS "posted" in the bin when no one was looking (he was going through a phase...)

My MIL's bin is probably cleaner than most operating theatres. Your average kitchen bin though - minging to high heaven. Not something I'd let a baby play with.

Out of interest, OP, do you like your MIL? I've lost count of how many threads you've started about her looking after your dc...

Silly game because a child that young is not going to realise that other people may have tins and broken glass in their bins which could be very dangerous.

No and this would really annoy me, apart from the germ side of things if dc think it's ok to put toys in the bin how are they to differentiate (sp) between bin with clean bag in (still minging) or a full of rubbish buin, plastic packaging from raw chicken and other hazards.

Ooops, lots of x-posts!

FutureNannyOgg, I think we lost a telephone handset in the same way!

Phew - glad I'm not being totally neurotic! :)

KenLee - Yes I do, very much so, but I have a problem (my own!) in asking for things to be done 'my way' as I truly don't want to upset her in any way. And I'm worried in telling DH as he'll just shout at her - which I really don't want

Just hoping what I thought was my diplomatic way of stopping it was ok

I would look into alternative child care tbh - you are clearly not happy with the way they do things hence your other thread too.

Completely daft! Unhygienic, and yep, encourages the child to post anything not nailed down into the bin.

No not neurotic - I would not be happy either.

Goes ott imagining what next - balancing beer bottles? Sandcastles in kitty litter?

Keep it in perspective but discourage. GPs can be wonderful allies for DCs. In laws can be supportive, not just back up for DH.

You're doing fine.

Yup putting toys in the bin
Excellent idea
My ds did this with his older sisters game boy
Which we realised after the bin men had been
Yanbu

Yuck! Yuck!
My DS is garbage truck and bin obsessed so he has his own toy bins which are clean and I clean them anyway..but he knows not to touch the 'eeyal' (real) bins!

YANBU at all!

I think you need to consider alternative childcare for your offspring

I've just seen your other thread about a poorly ds.
Maybe that's why he's poorly?
I wouldn't be happy with bin- based play. But then I wouldn't take a poorly dc to their GPs - mostly because I'd worry.