Unsuitable and silly gifts

[DetentionGrrrl]

What the daftest most silly or dreadful gift anyone's bought your child?

My FIL has given my son a tractor. My son is 21 wks old, and it's a real, full size tractor He's keeping it at his place thankfully (otherwise it'd be going for scrap!)

I don't understand that

a real real tractor?????

your joking right? omg!

i don't think many people will be abl to top that~!

A REAL tractor. FIL is farmery butcher type fella, and likes tractors. Me, DH and SIL joked in private about FIL giving him something like this, and now he has.

He even said to me yesterday, that if he didn't like the tractor when he was older, he could have a motorbike instead! (I said no chance to that!) He has him for one afternoon, and he's gone a bit bonkers i think.

a real mini motorbike - bil wanted to give dd(when she was 7) and thought it was a fantasic idea until i stood up and said 'over my dead body' and quietly left the room.
he seemed to have seen nothig on the news about kids being killed or hurt on them.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Mine is at least a cheaper silly one... A china tea set - when she was 6 months old

BFs DH bought a power drill and got a cordless one free with it. He suggested that their 2 year old had it for Christmas as he liked Bob.

dd1 got a book on how to draw animals for her 1st birthday
??

My SIL gave DS a mortar stick as a gift when DS was 6m old, she made all that fuss about spending hours preparing the gift (sanding it I guess), wrapped it in 2 boxes and then, as soon as DS let it fall, she complained her floor was getting damaged .

The only thing that came from my mouth was "what about his feet???" but I wouldn't be surprised if it had the intonation of "FGS what on Earth were you were you thinking about???!"

He also got a wooden jigsaw puzzle when he was 8 months old. We didn't understood then but he has been playing with it for 2 years now, so, it took it's time but was a good gift.

Another WTF? gift was a bag of balloons when he was 6m old. Do people even imagine that latex is not a nice/safe thing to chew when it can be swallowed or explode...

last Xmas when ds was 13 mths PILs gave him a snare drum. A real proper grown up one (cheap one obviously though thankfully!), with small screw knobs that come off, some nylon strings underneather that can unravel and that are held under high tension, small sharp corners on the rim and a beaded string attached that can be easily undone letting the beads slip off.

It met with an unfortunate accident, sadly. I was understandably devastated.

They got him for his 2nd birthday a weird dancing tiger thing, when you press its paw it dances and sings a weird song. It is made of nylon fibres that shed if you just look at it, the eyes pull out with very little persuasion and ds is terrified of it.

Disaster will probably befall it in the next few days I suspect, it looks as though it has a thoroughly unlucky karma.

(have to say, PILs are v generous, and ds is very lucky to receive some lovely and well thought out pressies from them which are fantastic, but these howlers appear at the same time which I find totally baffling!)