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Snow Globes

smacbsmacb
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WHy do people keep giving my 3 year old glass snow globes as a gift?  He's gotten maybe 5 of them in the last two years.  My MIL presented him with the most recent one at a family dinner so 'he'd have something to play with'.  Am I the only one who thinks this is an insane gift for a really young child?
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  • VARedheadVARedhead
    If they give it to you at their house, and don't mind a broken snow globe all over their floor, I think it's fine. Wink
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  • ArtslvrArtslvr
    My mom does this - she gives the kids fragile things as gifts, and tries to tell them "oh, this is so delicate and special, you have to be careful" but they end up ruining half the stuff.  I hate it because I know she just wants to give something special and my kids are actually pretty respectful and don't throw things at walls, but still - they're kids.
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  • DCtoLowcountryDCtoLowcountry

    I'm with you - fragile things for little hands is crazy.

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  • tracy042206tracy042206

    imageArtslvr:
    My mom does this - she gives the kids fragile things as gifts, and tries to tell them "oh, this is so delicate and special, you have to be careful" but they end up ruining half the stuff.  I hate it because I know she just wants to give something special and my kids are actually pretty respectful and don't throw things at walls, but still - they're kids.

     

    Ditto this.  We have already had a snow globe kick the bucket at our house, luckily it was a little plastic one, but the mess is awful and Molly wants to eat everything, or at least put it in their mouth.

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  • SofkaSofka

    I don't know why people give such age-inappropriate gifts, maybe they run out of ideas?

    when DD was 14mo old, MIL gave her a beaded necklace she made herself, as I like to call it "chocking hazard around the neck" and a flashlight w/out anything on the front, so you can just touch the tiny little bulb.

     

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  • QueSrahQueSrah member
    My MIL doesn't understand age-appropriate gifts.  She gave DD a snow globe for her 1st Hanukkah (when she was 2 months old).  Oh, and it's got an engraved silver base so it's always tarnished.  Great keepsake, there.  We occasionally pull it out for her (almost two years later), as long as we wind it up for her and keep it out of her arm's reach.  But then, she also gave DD some Nat Geo DVDs for her birthday this year that probably will be beyond her attention span and over her head for another year or two as well.
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