My daughter is 2 1/2 and every time she has a play date, I’m completely amazed at how her friends/cousins play. They literally shred the playroom to pieces. Now I’m not trying to say my daughter is perfect, she definitely makes messes too, she doesn’t clean up her toys every time and will drop them on the floor when she’s done, she can get rough and throw stuff sometimes. I totally get it that kids aren’t supposed to play perfectly. They’re exploring and learning. But all the kids that come over to play just tear everything apart. They’ll find a bucket of toys, dump it, scatter it, then walk away. And move onto the next bucket to do the exact same thing. They’ll take a doll and pull off her crown, dress, shoes, and then put her down. I had princess hooks hanging on the wall that held my daughters dress up dresses her 5 year old cousin not only ripped every dress and threw it on the ground but also pulled the hooks off the wall! Every time we have a friend over, my daughter later brings me a toy that’s broken, the arm is broken off a doll or ripped off a stuffed animal, the foam letters on the floor are ripped up, the rubber dresses the dolls are wearing are ripped up into little pieces, the tail on the mermaid is broken in half. I can go on and on. I’m sorry but is this normal play? Its literally every single time a kid comes over. And sometimes multiple times in one play date something gets broken and ruined. I end up having to hide half the toys whenever we have friends over because I don’t want them ruined. Like I said my daughter isn’t perfect by any means, but she plays with the toys how they’re intended to be played with, or in some other imaginative way. She takes out one or a couple toys at a time and plays with them. Or dumps something like legos but then builds with them. She’ll take one dress off the dress up hooks at a time. I know accidents happen and kids can be kids but I just don’t think this is normal. But it’s pretty much every single kid I’ve seen come and play, whether they are 3, 5 or even 9 they act like this! Maybe this is just how most kids are and I’m just lucky with my daughter. But I’m curious, are your kids/kids friends more like this or like how I described my daughter?