MIL won’t stop bringing battery toys 🙄

Give them back. Like she comes over and brings a toy. Say out loud in front of baby and MIL "you can play with this while MIL is here but she's taking it home with her when she goes". If MIL protests that, just look her dead in the face and say "we don't want battery toys in the house. If you don't take it home, I'll just be donating it tomorrow".

oh I so wish I could! My husband would be livid.. he would rather we put it in a closet and pretend it doesn’t exist.. I’ve been slowly starting to sell them but I wish i didn’t have them in the first place. Thankfully we don’t see her often but it still drives me nuts!!

give them away, donate or throw them out🤷🏽‍♀️you said what you allow in your home

What about music? I’m just asking out of curiosity. Or do you maybe just play music but not have toys that play music themselves (obviously not including actual instruments)?

I hear you but if she’s old she might not even realize unless you call her out lol

I’d just donate them to a local thrift store or something and when asked where they were I’d be like “You know how kids are, they lose shit all the time.” 😂

My MIL does the same. While I’m not super strict with not having battery toys. If I don’t like the toy I will tell my MIL to take it. Or I will give it away to someone who will love it. She literally gives him new stuff all the time she doesn’t keep track of the toys she’s given him. And even if she did I would say he wasn’t playing with it so I gave it away or donated it.

Tell your MIL that if she wants to buy her battery operated toys for her to play with that she can leave them at her house so when the baby comes over she can play with them

At least she’s bringing toys… does it realllyyy actually matter which type she’s spending her money on ? She could just completely stop

Well you said WE don't want battery toys. So if hubby is on the same page, tell him to step up and enforce the boundary

yes it matters if she doesn’t want her child to play with battery operated toys in her home that’s her choice and her child especially if she’s been telling her that every time she brings her a toy MIL she stepping over a boundary that has been set for the home MIL can keep the toys at her house and when baby comes over she has battery operated toys to play with

Yeah you could always give them away and then if she asks just say "oh we sent some toys to so-and-so's house so she can play with toys there"

I mean yeah it kind of matters… I don’t like feeling like I’m wasting her money. I’d rather she either 1- saves her money , or 2- spends it on something we’d use more.

Thats actually a phenomenal idea.

I give things back. It pisses off my husband no end but how else will they learn?

If its at someone elses house- I just leave it there.

I do it all the time. And sometimes it's even true

Not to nit pick, but if the picture is the actual invitation, then no, you didn't say you don't allow battery-operated toys, you said, prefer.

Don't allow and prefer are not the same thing.

Have you actually said this to your MIL in person? Has your partner said you don't want battery-operated toys?

How have you made it clear to everyone?

I told family and friends I would prefer eco-friendly toys, but I'm not mad that they have branched out, so have we. I still prefer them, but my son's favourite toy in the world is a battery-operated talking and dancing goose. It's not eco-friendly but was a gift from my FIL, and my son loves it. Which to me is more important.

Does your husband know you all don’t allow battery operated toys in the home?

The invitation didn't say you don't allow battery operated toys in your house, it said your daughter prefers child operated over battery operated. That's a bit different.

I would donate everything, she eventually will stop buying it 😅😅😅 and I do a registry for her birthday

the invitation wasn’t really the point here, that was meant for family we don’t see/talk to as often for her birthday. As I said in that comment they all got the point and we only ended up receiving 1 battery toy for her birthday. My MIL is fully aware that we do not use battery toys, especially if they’re not educational in some way. We’ve had a conversation with her but she still won’t stop being them over.

we just play music on a Bluetooth speaker or from YouTube on tv. We don’t like the nonsensical noise making toys that are just push a button and sounds happen type things.

It’s almost like she’s doing it to push your buttons, so to speak 😏

Incognito, you didn't answer how you have made it clear?

Regardless, it sucks that she keeps doing it despite knowing your feelings on the matter, it's not ok.

I would allow your child to explore the toys and decide for herself if she likes them, and if she doesn't, then donate or sell them. If you sell them, put the money in an account for your daughter for when she is older.

Just donate the toy

Just curious, what’s wrong with battery toys?

Just wondering, genuinely, are battery toys that take a screwdriver to get to the batteries bad??

I was thinking about things like a toniebox that are technically electronic but they’re not like a press a button and something lights up and makes a sound type of toys (I think a fair amount of those types of toys are geared toward babies and younger toddlers anyway).

The larger issue here obviously isn’t the toys themselves, it’s that she’s not respecting a boundary you’ve made in your home. Do you think she’s intentionally doing this to spite you? Or she just buys toys she thinks your child will like and isn’t really keeping the battery thing in mind when purchasing?

I’m not sure what a toniebox is to be honest.. we just don’t want her to use mindless things that don’t encourage imagination, or self play I also get easily overstimulated so being a SAHM I can’t stand hearing the same sound on repeat over and over again, so anything like that we avoid.
I don’t think it’s to spite me, she just has a shopping problem, and buys things she thinks are cute and that’s that… she’s not a very ‘mindful’ person… I know she has good intentions it’s just frustrating that she is ignoring the boundaries we have set and discussed with her.

it’s not really how the battery’s go in, we just want our daughter to have toys that encourage imagine, self play, or are educational. She has one electric book that when she pushes the picture it says what it is. I don’t mind that one because it teaches her words but what my MIL brought yesterday was a light up music playing “aquarium” It was cute and all, there’s just nothing to it besides buttons , lights, and sounds.

most just don’t encourage self play, imagination and aren’t educational. I know plenty of parents / kids don’t mind them and that’s totally fine. I don’t judge anyone that likes or wants those toys. But I’m a SAHM and get easily overstimulated, I hate hearing the same sound repeatedly and would rather spend time interacting with my daughter or having her use something that’s teaching her a skill in some way. She has one electronic book that when she touches the picture it says the word, and can do it in Spanish as well. I don’t mind that one because it is teaching her something at least.

Oh okay. I know a lot of people don’t want battery toys because of the safety