Would you get your dd the thing they really wanted for xmas

[Pawslikepaddington]

If you HATED it-it is a BIG present, and for the same price I could get her something really nice and wooden that she could have for years and would look beautiful, but she wants the typical 5 year old garishly horrible toy that I swore I would never buy and scorned the parents who bought them before I had children. Do I make her Christmas (which is what I want to do, but preferably with something else!), or just hope the obsession will go away

Of course I will admit you are all right, I will do it now in fact-I hate it already. Please find another obsession before xmas dd, please! xxx

Paws, when I was little my friend had a rocking horse like the one you posted in her room. I used to LOVE going round her house to play on it. That is all we would do, it was fab. I think in your case I would get the one you want her to have. It would be far more fun I think.

hooray congratulations

you have seen sense

now you can invest in a Deluxe Barbie Botox Salon instead

GROAN at 'one trick pony'

Oh olive, I feel for you and your cowboy horse. I think they do build imagination--well, rocking horses anyway-we got a rocking moose from ikea and it had all sorts of adventures, she just gets stuck in it now! I don't mind if she is galloping off to find her prince etc, she can have a prince for a few more years at least xx

thank you

what you need to do is belittle it

when an ad comes on for something foul I go OMG LOOK AT THAT RUBBISH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

repeat several times

eventually they are brainwashed

dd1 now says "ha, each sold separately mummy >

I wouldnt get either

they are both fairly minging tbh

lol @ each sold separately

It really depends on your dd. Mine has quite a few of these pretend pet things - and loves them all and they get played with ALL the time. She plays vets, dog shows, etc etc with them. Plenty imagination play there!

We have a rocking horse similar to the one you linked to - ir rarely gets ridden but gets groomed, decorated, talked to and patted all the time.
I'd get the one she wants.

Oooh, yes, I think she may be getting me the weight loss and barbie botox salon, she is already asking how to not get wrinkles like mummys . I love the tale of slashed up barbie styling head xx

lol

mine say 'they just want you to buy it dont they mummy' (albeit wistfully)

I'm really sorry but I've got to go out , I didn't want you all to think I had rudely disappeared. Dd is obsessed with pets because we can't have them, I know they are weird and sad and horrid, but I used to have a walk along dog thing and played with it until I was 12 . I WANT THE ROCKING HORSE (paddy paddy paddy)! At least then I can play with it if she won't!

lol

mine say "are they rubbish mummy? >"

current obsession is vtech pink camera thing, on offer in costco, right by the door. dd2 had MAJOR strop when dh didn't stop right there and buy her one immediatley, refused to get in the car and everything

P.S. rofl at rolling of eyes at each sold seperately xx

get her the huge pink soft unicorn from wilkisons

6 feet long and £29.99

dd1s fave xmas present ever

oooh link please

I didn't want that truly awesomely bad play on words to fall on stony ground, and rather left that other people had missed it in the massed missives about the mammary mistress Barbie

it was 2 or 3 years ago

pph recommended it when I was stuck for something for dd1

it was a MAHOOSIVE hit and still lives on the end of her bed

You do realise if you dont buy it, you'll have years when shes older of her saying

" I always wanted that moving horse toy and I never got it"

Just buy the bloody thing if thats what she wants.
Buying something she doesn't want will be a waste of money.

6 foot unicorn is making me wheeze already

think of the dust mites in that

lolololol

this is it

I don't think the idea of a rocking horse, or something similar is bad - my grandparents used to have a knackered old scary looking one but we loved to play on it. They can be a lot of fun.

However, that SMORES thingy - your DD has just been blatantly marketed at - I see the whole nasty array of them in Hamely's window nearly every day. She doesn't need that particular one - she has been made to feel she should! other posters are right about the imagination thing - the more a toy does, the less a child gets to invent around their play. Doesn't it talk and shit etc etc ? Much better to go with your version.

And regarding the money - I won't comment because that wasn't the question of the thread - if you can afford it I don't see the problem. If it's a stretch though, am sure their are cheaper options.

I don't think it's immoral to spend that kind of money on a rocking horse, and because I can't believe no one has done it yet, I will link you to these threads to prove my point

here

and here!

But this is the quintessential 'disappointment' toy, isn't it?

We all look at it and realised that by Boxing day (or a week later at the very latest) it will no longer be played with. She'll be disappointed in the long term/

DD would have been much happier with loads of other shite toys than the 'My perfect pet' which amused her for less than a week.

and as adults we can see this. No-one is saying, 'My god, I know she would play with this toy for ever and thus I will not buy it! to be mean'

We are saying this is crapola marked hype, over expensive junk that will end up a waste of money. Get her something better that will last

if you insist on getting a rocking horse, get a classic one

there is nothing in them that will go wrong

that hideous one will fail and die and then will just be a immobile lump in the corner of the room