DS ruining presents already!

[Blondie1993]

I am so annoyed and disappointed in DS(7). His birthday was just a few weeks before Christmas and he got everything he wanted and more between myself and family members. He asked for specific playmobil sets which he got plus extras. He got pretty big playmobil sets last year and he didn’t look after them - took half of them apart, didn’t put them back together then basically lost most of the bits and bobs for them. I made it very clear to him this time before he got them, when he opened them, when we built them ect that he must take care of them and keep all the bits together. He went to his dads on Christmas afternoon and came back this afternoon. So in less than a few hours of playing with them spread across Christmas Day and today he has lost half the animals and half the people. Our house isn’t messy, he has no idea where he put them and I can’t find them at all.

I don’t know if I am being unreasonable or not but I am so bloody annoyed with him right now, I feel like telling him he’s not allowed to play with any of his new toys until he finds them!

When my son was about that age, I used to get really annoyed with him about losing pieces of jigsaw and so on-until I realised I was crazy, and that was what young children did.
If the intricate expensive Playmobil/Lego/whatever, things are beyond his/her attention span to keep organised-do not buy them. Get something else. If he/she complains, say something like "Wait until next year". The child will soon grow out of wanting them, and you may never have to buy them at all. The child will suffer no lasting harm.
I once was gifted a clever, interesting electronics set by a grown-up "nerdy" cousin, to give to my son. My cousin loved it when he was young. I looked at the set, with each piece carefully put back in it's place, and nothing missing. I thought about it for a week or so, and never, ever, gave it to my normal careless son.

Oh OP, you're taking all the fun out of playing. If he was breaking stuff on purpose then that's different.

I just stored it all in a couple of large boxes. About 17 sets of assorted sizes worth - and have just had the pain of sorting and reboxing that all to sell........

5foot5 that sounds amazing! Good luck with the building of it!

They're for building with and being creative, not for copying what's on the box endlessly.

thinks - I wonder how many mums & dads land up in a & e with superglued fingers attached to lego/playmobile after Christmas :)