Reader question: Why are Thai children not careful with their toys?

Hi Lucas,

I have the same experience, but then it mainly concerns the Thai / Chinese manufactured toys. Toys brought from the Netherlands withstand child violence a lot better, in my experience.
My son has been playing with the same (Dutch) toys for 5 years. Plastic toys bought after school are crushed within 2 days.
Cheap tablets and stone floors are also a deadly combination, I've noticed.
Furthermore, I also managed to demolish the crankset of my Chinese bicycle within 40 days. Not designed for Dutch weight and legs? Or just very poor quality?

It's just the poor quality of the Chinese products.
Bought a DVD player twice.
Both died within a year.
Bought an amplifier, but can still repair it yourself.

It's just the poor quality of cheap toys from China. After. for a day or two the cheap cars are broken, or the fake Barbies, you name it.

What I read here is simply true, I think it is quite an achievement when I get home that the toy has remained intact for 5 minutes, yes I just have to laugh about it (internally) and hope and know it is only temporary, and here I mean that our children are also getting older and at that point I hope that they are not wreckers. I save the toys and especially the broken toys for later to show, with our story included. The lower quality from China also plays a role, but what is the difference with the Netherlands, where they are also imported from China. I'll leave it be. so my “demolitionist” and hope that things would turn out well, after all, I was young once and I remember that I demolished dinky toys and lost them in the sandbox, and when you came home I also got a beating. Greetings R.Pakkred

Yes, I have a foster son, and nephews and nieces, and all of them are not careful with their things, but in my opinion that is due to the upbringing of the parents.
They sometimes do not have them, no bed, no tables, chairs, only a TV, but they do have a car, preferably a new one, and this is used carefully and economically.
Have a house with all the trimmings, but have often, the family from large to small, rightly had to point out the handling of our things, spared nothing, sat on handsome chairs, squatted with their dirty feet
With food, bones and the unnecessary things just on the table, spilled drinks not immediately picked up, kids who came in running over my couch, including my stepson's friends. so my remedy, if you have nothing to be frugal with, how do you behave, if it is not taught to you either.
And not only my in-laws, but also neighbors acquaintances etc.
My wife has learned how to do it, because she knows what it cost and cannot easily replace it, and she reminds visitors to be vigilant and careful with our belongings.
(and often not appreciated} but continue to draw attention, there is still progress.

First of all, we learn to handle your belongings with care; a Thai less so. Furthermore, children often want to receive toys that are “too difficult”; they are purchased with adult eyes. A child wants something simple and wants to explore. And that includes destruction. Not something really for Thailand ; also happens in the Netherlands. Give them Lego or a box of blocks and they will be busy for hours; On the other hand, a steerable boat/plane and/or car is easily damaged. So keep it simple daddy.

My experience is that the children share their toys very easily with other children and leave them lying around in the yard near the house after playing. In addition, there was hardly any storage space in the house for the children's belongings, so everything was stored in a plastic basket.
I bought a wardrobe with a few drawers for my two children, 9 and 7, and made it known to them that any toy I found in the yard at night after they had gone to bed would be thrown away immediately. After having put the deed to the word twice, everything (including clothing) goes into the cupboards before we go to sleep and we hardly have any work to do with it.
Moral of all this, it's in the upbringing and not knowing the value of the stuff. I now give them pocket money every week and go shopping with them once a month. I add money if they want something that exceeds their savings and they are very frugal with it.