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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I haven't read this entire thread but thought I would suggest that you tell the Gparents that they are welcome to give your child all the toys they want but politely suggest that they must keep them at their home (it sounds like they are local).  We had the same problem with Gparents giving ridiculously large toys and large volumes of them.  Like you, we have a small house and nowhere to store the toys.  After suggesting that the toys stay at the Gparents' house, it seems like the situation has improved and, to the extent it hasn't, storing those toys has become their problem, not ours.[/quote]

We are fortunate that in-laws have resisted the urge to buy lots of big toys after some "where the heck are we going to put x" moments when the kids were younger.  It's crazy that you have to have toy restrictions ...but with a small house I understand.  I'm not quite sure why the heart to hearts aren't getting thru, is there something about giving big toys that satisfies a childhood yearning for them?  My MIL fully admits to always wanting to shop for girls clothes and having only sons.  She almost cried when our girls went to a school that had a dress code.  My mom is all about the books, partly her job as a school media specialist means she is up on the good reads and she gets signed copies when she goes to various events.  I think for her, it is sharing a part of her life with the kids.

I think the key is to find out from them why it gives them such joy to give that particular gift and see if you can find a compromise, can some of them be kept at their house, can they limit it to one big toy a year on a special occasion, can they work with a one truck in, one truck out to account for the limited space ... So if they give 3 trucks, then 3 existing ones have to be donated to make space ... And it could be something they just gave if they bring trucks every month.

Good luck working it out.[/quote]

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