Protecting Equipment from Children

I bought each grandchild his own integrated amp, turntable, and speakers!

it worked - they love music

one plays trumpet and the other cello!

I think the question is how to protect your grandchildren from your equipment…

Having, with spouses' total 'buy-in', to Not 'do kids' (or grand versions), only the pets of our choice to cope with.  Since one doesn't have answer "Why?" incessantly, simply train said pet to leave 'This' Alone.

I will agree with @oldhvymec ....They Are Demons.  Even as an 'outlier' from the main path, nay, airstrip-length Width of Super Slab Asphalt to the Breeding Zone.
The jewels of your heart, away from your 'copter 'supervision'....

*clenched teeth delivery* "If you don't stop wanting to play neurosurgeon with the dog with that steak knife Immediately.....I'm going to take your Playstation and run over it with the car...."

....can let the extremist side of childhood run rampant.
If left unsupervised, by a non-extant 'park person' (and, esp. You)....

Wanton Small Buzz Saws...a.k.a., Demons.

I'm not complaining, no.
...happy that they're allowed to 'be'....Yes. *S* ;)

It's simple you don't have to teach kids to be bad, you have to teach kids to be good. I was taught that by my grandmother. She was born is 1889 and went to heaven in 1988. She was SMART. The better choices you give kids the better choices they make. If you ask kids quality questions, you'll get quality answers.

All of my Aunts, Mother and cousins played instruments. Look out.. No crazy stuff, no drinkin' they were Baptist folks. GOOD food, kids everywhere.. Usually the men were playin' horseshoes and chewin' tobacco. 

Regards 

Agreed wholeheartedly on the 'good/bad', taught vs. left to devices, deviant or not so much....*g*  Personally, the only 'gram' I got to meet lived 1.2K mi. away and only spoke bohemian....but by tenor and body language a sweet no-nonsense kinda gal.... ;)

Admitted, a larger over-the-fringe 'absurdvation' in previous post,  I'm pulling leg, but have an observation POV that is unique.  I build 'fun things' for children, and enough said.  But it's been an education in the way one can challenge a child on a physical and mental level that can't be accomplished in the average home without the destruction of most of your furniture.

If I was to 'spoof' your audio collection, I would weld Everything. ;)

Happy Friday....and is your neighbor basically 'tame' normally....(whatever 'normal' state applies, of course.... ;)...) ?