Would it be unfair to keep toy at my parents?

[Helgathehairy]

Not certain about this so looking for advice.

My mum has been saying she really wants to buy DD a rocking horse, which is all well and good but our house is very small and we don't really have the space. It's her first birthday in August and I just saw this rocking horse

My parents live 5 minutes drive away and we see them at least twice a week (they're quite elderly).they have a large house with plenty of room. Would it be unfair to DD to leave the rocking horse there?

I loved that sort of arrangement as a child!

We do exactly this.
My girls go to my mums at least three times a week and have several toys there that we don't have at home. Dolls house, sand tray etc.
It's perfect makes all the toys more interesting.

Leave it there - it will get used far more

I drop my dd off at my mums once a week for the day, and sometimes she and I stay for a couple if nights each month. I have a set of everything left at my mums to save filling the car up every journey.

It means my dd doesn't get bored of the toys at my mums house as she only sees them once a week. And it's better for your dd to have a rocking horse once it twice a week, than not at all, IYSWIM? :)

def. it makes the toys more interesting if they dont get to play w it all the time :)

I spent an eye watering amount getting my old dolls house redecorated fixed up and refurnished. It's 3 floors high and the understanding has always been it stays at my mums and my nieces know it's at grans

they absolutely love it

DS has toys at his nanna's gran's and great gran's house :)

Thanks all. Think that's going to be the plan so.

Are there ever tantrums about leaving things when going home? I was a sensitive child and thinking about my poor rocking horse all alone with no one to play with would have had me very upset!

DD will only be 12 months though so a bit young for that!

When my dd aged about 3 went to preschool I had to promise to look after her baby doll so it wasn't scared without her.

If yours doesn't want to leave the toy can your parents just say she will look after it and play with it for her ?