I wish mothers wouldn’t criticize their todlers for mistreating their dollies. I know they rip their arms off, throw them around and still love and cling to them. More tolerance then helps them to care more when they grow up and not be afraid of real babies is what I’m thinking.
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Did you have a doll? How did you care for it? Were you criticized?
I never was interested in dolls…I liked climbing trees and building rafts and reading.
Maybe it’s important to let child know that that hateful , agressive behaviour is not ok and destroying your dolls is not ok.
Specially not when they expect you to buy a new doll and don’t value what they have.
That’s cool. I used to make tomahawks with rocks sticks and electrical tape and try to hunt birds in the forest.
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That’s nice! Did you succeed? 
We had hardly any nature here. It’s urban. But there’s a ditch behind my parents house. It’s dirty and small, but it goes through all the area. We would swim in summer. Iceskate with selfmade sticks in winter. Catch “baby frogs” (tadpoles?) to bring them home and see them grow. Use the clay to make things. We stole building material from where new houses were built…and used it for rafts. We’d come home muddy and wet, but nobody cared. It was fun. I like how my parents were fine with all that.
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Nice memories 
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It would have been traumatizing if I had succeeded probably lol.
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Hahaha…yeah, likely.
We would “fish”. Sit there for an hour, real serious. The few times we really caught a fish…we’d scream for my dad. And be all upset. Because the fish was hurting. He needed to throw it back as carefully as possible.
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Caught a catfish when I was younger. Made me very unhappy that we had to remove the hook and throw it back. It felt like we were just molesting the creature for our own amusement
I can understand hunting and foraginh for sustenance but I don’t find it terribly entertaining
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Yeah…I can imagine. Hunting and fishing for sustenance is fine. Better than factory farms. And I want to learn survival skills. But I’d be too softhearted to be good at it.
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