do you allow your children to play with any balls inside the house?

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at all?

ds is 15mo and has been allowed to play with small soft balls. am foreseeing trouble when he gets older and stronger (and, ahem, the balls are bigger) and wonderr whether banning them completely is the way forward?

do you allow kicking? the real problem is going to be when someone gets him a leather one!!

yes, kicking whatever. I'm not really fussed actually. We don't have a big garden - it's more of a yard, not that this bothers me but sometimes he wants to kick a ball and is barefoot or not wearing much and I can't see why he shouldn't really.

Ds likes setting up the cricket stumps inside...he puts them down one end of the passage so he has a good run up .

yep. In the hall where they also ride bikes, rollerblade, and scooter.

absolutely not

i remember my mum going mad at my brother for playing tennis in the house once!!

I think it's one of those cases where your actual circumstances are going to have to dictate the rules. In our case, most of the rooms are full of fish tanks, so forget about balls! Only allowed in the hall, which is a very narrow one.

yes, beach balls, bouncy balls if played with carefully, and light plastic footballs (not leather ones) again if played with carefully

pmsl at everyone answering my 18 month old question