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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That wouldn't even register to me.  [b]Your child felt she could express her honest feelings to her mother.  In the privacy of her own home.  If she can't be honest in that environment where the hell CAN she be honest? [/b]

It only would have been rude if she'd said it to the gift-giver. [/quote]

OP is the gift giver. [/quote]

I'll still stick with my bolded statement.  Because I think that is most important.  Later, after the moment has passed I might say to the child "Hey the moment when you're receiving a gift is not the time to say anything negative.  It's the time to say I'm so excited or thank you so much but tell me, as your parent, later, that you don't think it'll hold your attention. That's a more gentle way of saying something looks boring."  But I definitely wouldn't send the gift back or punish.  [/quote]

I agree with you. I was just pointing out that OP was the gift giver and the person who had her feelings hurt. She was putting her hurt feelings as the gift giver ahead of her job as a parent. That's a mistake IMO.[/quote]

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