To want to smack the fucking thing right out of his hand?

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not so ‘D’ MIL has given DS (5) a kazoo. I kid you not, a kazoo. WIBU to hide it in the garbage bin?
I’m slowly losing my sanity.

Oh how we laugh in the Knickers household when we remember the day mummy threw the kazoo out of the window, it's a favourite memory of the dcs

YANBU! I have felt that way myself, forgot to say that in earlier post. :D Also can we put the 'bop it' game in the 'smack it out the hand' category too as it ranks up there with the kazoo and recorder for being loud and annoying as fuck.

Immediately go for a visit back to the MIL's and leave the fucking thing there. Maybe that will teach her.

My ds started playing with one in the car the other day! Nearly drove into a bloody tree it scared me shitless. He then would not stop playing it the whole way Home. It has now unfortunately got lost (ie put in the bin)!

I think it's time for a sleepover at Grandma's isn't it?

Be sure to mention how much she loves to hear a kazoo.

What's given by MIL, lives at MIL's surely?

My MIL made a big deal out of buying noisy toys for the dc when they were little (like drum kits, electronic toys, Christmas decorations that played tunes) to wind us up and get her own back on DH for his noisy childhood toys. What I'd done to deserve this remains unclear.

I got so sick of one toy (a postman pat van iirc) that I hid it so well that we didn't find it until we extended the house 7 years later, when it turned up under a floorboard in the airing cupboard.

Unfortunately the dc moaned so much about the loss of the sodding van that I ended up buying a replacement

Before I went nc with my mum, she used to get them noisy toys. They never left her house, horrible mummy always had a million reasons why I couldn’t take them that time.

Eventually she got the message after the electric guitar. Before that it was kazoos, recorders, plastic trumpets, drums, bongos, a noisy as fuck garage, the screaming dolls, trains and countless other things.

She slipped up a few years later, laughing to a mate of hers about some of the shit she had done to me. I laughed back as I reminded her it back fired as the shit stayed with her, and I would often go out for an hour or so

I think it's really mean to bin a toy just because it's noisy, especially if it's one that the kid likes.

You can absolutely limit/ manage their use, but it's pretty shite to actually break/ lose/ bin them.

I think that's a toy that comes out purely for visits to MILs house and then DC needs to show MIL just how much he loves her present by following her around and playing it.

Could something not accidentally get stuck inside the kazoo tonight while he is sleeping that means that very sadly, it won´t make any more noise?

Hide them. But take them with you whenever you visit her and encourage them to play for MIL all.the.time.

At least it isn't cymbals!

Laughing here. Before I had a child of my own I used to give my sisters kids the noisiest toys on the planet. That or creative sets containing all manner of small things including glitter. Such fun :)))

I find noisy toys can so often fall in the bin at night.never to be heard again
Funny that

I take your kazoo and raise you a vuvuzela. Along with a dd who thought it was perfectly possible to play her nursery rhymes on it and top volume.

Luckily she decided it was a great gift for her lovely music teacher when she started school

My almost 3 yr old DS has a drum, a kazoo and a tambourine (thanks to DH) Tuneless noise is a daily part of our lives. I have learned to zone it out.

Also a flashing wand that plays Jingle Bells repeatedly when it is switched on.

My DH bought both our kids kazoos, had them 'playing' them in the car all the way home. You do learn to tune it out, but we are a musical household in general, so its a skill you learn. We also have a drum kit, 4 guitars, DD has a recorder and a (childrens) keyboard and DH is getting an electric piano for Christmas.

Buying noisy toys is the age-old prerogative of GP, aunts, uncles, and even parents’ frIends. OP your day will come

DS had a Wiggles guitar with a mind of its sodding own. We told him the batteries had run out and they were special ones you could only get in Australia- and we didn’t have the money to fly there and get some.

I suppose I've never really understood this kind of thing, and I really never thought it would be so universal. Am I to understand that I'm the only one who buys my own child kazoos, drums, etc.? DH and I love the din of a house made loud by children's noises, even if they're not exactly "musical" as such. Isn't that part of the whole point of having children in the first place? I'm always glad to hear when he's playing with something we got him and loves it.

If they have an answer phone, ring it and fill it with kazoo until there is no space left. Repeat.

Don't bin them, just make sure they end up in Granny's toybox.

Chuck it in top of the wardrobe - it’s our noisy toy graveyard 😜

Am I to understand that I'm the only one who buys my own child kazoos, drums, etc.?

No - we had all that stuff from as soon as they could hold them, plus a collection of tonal saucepans and kitchen implements. I love it all as well. They used to bash on the piano as well.

When eldest was a toddler, my SiL passed on one of those toddler drum sets with various percussion instruments inside so they they had a set at the PiLs as well as at home :-)