Should I let my son throw away his stuffed animals?
My son (6) is going through his garbage truck phase which is something a lot of parents can probably relate to. It feels like it’s mandatory for kids of a certain age to go through this phase. Every week on garbage day we wake up early to watch the truck come, he says hi to the garbage man, who we know by name, and he especially loves watching the truck crush the garbage in the back.
Recently he got the idea in his head that he wants to throw away some of his stuffed animals so he can see them go in the garbage truck. He has a lot of stuffed animals and he loves them very much so it comes as a surprise to me that he would want to throw them away. I explained to him that this would mean they would go away forever, but he still insists he wants to go through with it. He’s picked out a select few stuffed animals, which includes some of his most special stuffed animals and his all time favorite, for this “mission”.
I’m not sure what to do. He has been telling me for months now he wants to do this, but I don’t know if he’ll regret it after. Half of me thinks this is a bad idea but the other half says why not, he really wants to do it and I will get some decluttering done as an added bonus.
Side note: if we go through with it, how should we throw them away? I’m worried if we just throw them in the bin like normal trash they mignt not be visible going in the truck, which is what he wants to see.