To hate pinatas for kids?

[Crunchymum]

I may or may not be watching This Morning

Seriously though, watching those kids with cricket bats and wooden baseball bats going town on the pinatas made me feel a bit uncomfortable.

AIBU?

When we had one for a party none of the children could hit hard enough to get into it. I ended up tipping it upside down and emptying the stuff out.

@shadow666

I think the bags of stamps were for stamp collectors? Fairly unsophisticated ones? We used to collect them for charity (from old envelopes, not from Woolworths) and I assume there was a connection between charities selling them to someone and then a commercial organisation packaging and selling them on.

Might otherwise be the basis for a thriller though?

Like this kind of thing: www.amazon.co.uk/Packet-Used-stamps-Worldwide-collection/dp/B0055D3UFO?tag=mumsnetforum-21

I agree if smacking a pinata makes your kid just other animals and people then there's a something wrong and it's not the pinata

I'm notbprecious about it.

My DD watches TV shows where animals or people die (like superset and A&e programmes) and she and her little sister have water guns so I'm not a hippy who is so anti violence even in games etc but I think the sweets inside representing guys just tops it on the tasteless side for me.

Alto most bonfires I've been to have either just been wood or a photograph no physical representation of Fawkes.

If you were designing a game for children where bashing something to pieces was involved, there are plenty of other shapes to pick instead of animals.

Taking a cricket bat to one sounds a bit over the top. An old broom handle is much better!

Yes, we do know the difference between a piñata and a real animal

Personally I wouldn't have enjoyed a piñata as a child. I would have been uncomfortable with the brute force and sad due to the thought of harm to animals, despite it not being real.

It is not unheard of for people to dislike certain toys or activities which represent something they wouldn't want to see in reality. It could be toy guns, computer games that include violence, or dolls with unattainable figures.

If a computer game or toy gun can increase a tendency to actual violence in a possibly susceptible minority, or a tolerance of it, then so can a piñata, ridiculous as it sounds.