Wwyd? Broken toy.

[SpiceLinerandHoneyLove]

Keeping this very short to avoid outing.
DD had two friends to play today. In the garden and sandpit. All well and good. Her friends are sisters, about 18 months between them. All children aged under 4.
Sandpit/outside toys all outside.

Bit hectic, repeated asking other children not to throw gravel, bring toys from house outside etc. Trying, but normal.

Then mum of friends extracts from her youngest DD one of my DD's toys, a pullalong she's had since birth with buttons that make it talk. Well, not anymore. It's full of sand. Her DD had taken it from inside and buried it in the sandpit. It's beyond repair.

I'm not normally precious but it was one of the first toy we got DD and we hoped her new brother/sister would also play with it.

I've googled a replacement and it's not made anymore. Amazon is only place at £25+

WIBU to ask for a replacement?

[DiptyqueandDiamonds]

Is this a what would you do or a 'was I unreasonable?'. I can't see from your posts OP that you have actually asked for it to be replaced. Clearly, you shouldn't if you were even thinking of it.
But I also can't see where you said you were huffing and puffing and rolling your eyes or neglecting the children....
It was a hard lesson but if you are so sentimental then it's good to learn it now so something irreplaceable doesn't get broken.

[DeathpunchDoris]

Accidents happen. No one dies and life goes on. Enjoy the precious times you have with kids and friends - broken toys can be fixed or replaced whereas memories, friendship and happy times cannot. Try and let it go - one day your child may inadvertently do the same to another's toys...

[wiltingfast]

Please do not be utterly ridiculous. The children were playing with toys. One is broken. These things happen and you do not ask friends to replace them

Am amazed after 18m you have any sentimental attachment whatsoever to noisey plastic

[paxillin]

'Repeatedly asking' a two-year old not to bring a toy she can reach outside is about as useful as asking the wind not to blow.

[PersianCatLady]

I think you have to learn a lesson from this and in future put precious toys out of reach.

If you insist that your friend pays to replace the toy you may find that in the future mothers will be wary of letting their children play with your DD and in the long run she will be the one that misses out.

[Reapwhatyousow]

It's hard I know but put this down to experience and move on a little bit wiser.

[PrimalLass]

MUMSNET HQ: As the OP stated in the first sentence that she was trying to avoid being outed, it is a bit rubbish that you decided to put this one on Facebook.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

HQ put threads on Facebook? ffs

[SpecialAgentFreyPie]

Wat MNHQ put shit on FB now??! I thought Twatter was bad enough!

[Whatthefreakinwhatnow]

It's £25! If it really means that much to you, don't be tight and just buy a new one yourself!

[Psychomumsucks]

Why are some posters being so nasty? I agree on not asking for money as these things do happen, my little ones main xmas present got broken about a month after she had it and i was gutted and had a whinge to myself and moved on, however to say to the origional post that she is being precious over a plastic bit of tat, is quite harsh we all get attached to things. My youngest had a musical lamb toy from she was five weeks old and id thought it had broke one day, partner fixed it but it only cost a fiver and wasnt made anymore and the cheapest one was 30 quid and i couldnt just afford that but it had sentimental valye and gave me and my daughter comfort, was i being over the top about some plastic when i got really upset that it wasnt working and found i couldnt buy it again, no i wasnt because things no matter how cheap end up having meaning and that matters.

[KateSMumsnet]

@PrimalLass

MUMSNET HQ: As the OP stated in the first sentence that she was trying to avoid being outed, it is a bit rubbish that you decided to put this one on Facebook.

Sorry folks - that was shortsighted and careless of us. We've now deleted that FB post. OP, we hope that it hasn't caused any problems for you IRL, let us know if there's anything else we can do

[Vickyyyy]

I didn't know MNHQ put posts on FB?