to be a bit alarmed when the baby massage woman DRESSED the blardy doll at the end of the session?

[MamaG]

I bit back the giggles - I wonder if she had a car seat for it? I declined to ask its name as well!

I have a reborn

Why do toddlers prefer their dolls naked? I've always wanted to know!

i don't know, but dd at 4 has just about grown out of stripping them! However, the barbie dolls do still enjoy naked drives around the house in their open top car and they always have something odd in the back seat, like a giant plastic sweetcorn last time!

I still haven't grown out of stripping dolls. The first things i seem to do is take their knickers off. Is that really perverted do you think?

I am a baby massage instructor, we are trained to treat the doll like a real baby. If we were to absent mindedly start prodding or poking the doll or swinging it around in a masage class then there's a chance one of the mothers will do the same to her baby because she is learning from our actions. It's unlikely but who knows?

This is extended to carrying them nicely, dressing them and naming them.

YABU - and unkind. Poor chilly doll. I am forever dressing DS2's doll and turning him (the doll) the right way up in the pushchair. If DS2 had his way, the doll would be naked and upside down at all times. But DS2 is only 20 mo. There is no excuse for a qualified baby massage teacher to mistreat a poor defenseless doll.

For some reason I always strip dolls too. Which is how I discovered an Incredible Hulk doll I'd bought from the poundshop as a joke gift for my friend was anatomically correct.