MSE Parent Club - Part 2

Dormouse

purplepatch wrote: »

I was going to say that too! Except Olivia's version is

Twinkle twinkle chocolate bar
Your dad's got a rusty car!

See now you got me thinking whether it was 'rusty' or 'fancy'! :rotfl:It was one or the other!

Dormouse

And about comfort objects, I used to think they're a bit weird (mainly because I used to know a couple of older kids who always carried manky 'blankies' with them everywhere - one of the kids was nearly 5! :eek: ) but since I've had Alex, he's always had a muslin in his cot at night.

As a tiny baby, I thought it would be nice for him to have something with my smell on it in the basket/cot, plus it would smell of milk so be quite comforting. Anyway, now at 17 months he still likes to have one in his cot even though it doesn't smell of me or milk anymore. :rotfl:

The plus side is that I have about a dozen of muslins, all the same, so he can have a clean one whenever - no need to wrestle a special blanket off a screaming child! :T When he's teething, he likes to chew on one too, and does walk around the house with it occasionally, but I do draw the line at not taking them out of the house.

purplepatch

Dormouse wrote: »

See now you got me thinking whether it was 'rusty' or 'fancy'! :rotfl:It was one or the other!

She gave me the continuation....

Turn the key and pull the choke
Off you go in a puff of smoke
Twinkle twinkle etc etc.

Or something like that anyway :rotfl:

Sami Bee, I'm going to have to buy that now - her teacher has a repertoire of silly poems that she teaches them and Olivia thinks they are totally hilarious. She would so love that book.

Dormouse

purplepatch wrote: »

She gave me the continuation....

Turn the key and pull the choke
Off you go in a puff of smoke
Twinkle twinkle etc etc.

Or something like that anyway :rotfl:

Ours was "Push the pedal, pull the choke" I remember vividly trying to explain to DS1 what a choke was! :rotfl:

Oh, and there was another one that went "Twinkle twinkle traffic lights"!

Becles

Mine have always had a comfort toy that they've sort of latched onto. Joshua had a seal, James had a Bob the Builder and Charlotte has a pink teddy (which James brought to the hospital when she was born so he's properly chuffed that she picked it as her fave!)

There's always been a rule that the favourite toy is never allowed out of bed. It avoids tantrums at bedtime when they discover it's been lost, and we've never had the problem of losing it in a supermarket etc., and had to retrace our steps to find it.

Usually when I pick Charlotte out of the cot on a morning she'll pick teddy up and cuddles him while I change her nappy, but then I tell her he has to go back into bed, and she chucks him back in the cot and says "ta ta teddy"

chocaholic110

How old are babies when they form attachments to objects? Tom doesn't really have anything that's a big favourite...apart from the tv remote control that he likes to carry about with him.

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Jack got attached to quilted material at 11 months and was going to bed in a gro-bag cuddling a grobag. I finally found some quilted material and cut it to blankie size, which he now carries for security and when upset. I cut two, one for washing, one for carrying. The attachment fully came at around 12-13 months.

Molly has had a muslin since birth, but has yet to show any attachment to it. I am still hoping she will, as I have lots and they will be easier to have as a comforter.

Becles

I think Charlotte was about 9-10 months. She's had a few cuddly toys in her cot since birth, but all of a sudden she started reaching out for pink teddy and cuddling him when she went to sleep.

It was definitely before a year old, as we went to Turkey just after her birthday and I made sure the teddy was in the hand luggage in case she needed him on the plane.

SeptemberBaby_2

I'm a dummy (or doody!) fan too ever since I read the SIDS report before I had Poppy. Jamie will be offered one too. Poppy only has one at nap and bed times and she also likes to hold an extra one which is handy if one falls (or is thrown) out!

Choc, the speach therapist at my cousin's school says that dummy's are fine and its thumb sucking that causes the most damage .

Poppy has no attachment whatsoever to any objects (except doody! ). No toys get played with extra specially which I'm glad about really. SIL's little boy has a ted that is the only thing that will settle him.....until he lost it whilst shopping! :eek:. SIL had to trek to every Mothercare within reason and eventually found another reduced as they were discontinued!

xx

Sami_Bee

purplepatch wrote: »

She gave me the continuation....

Turn the key and pull the choke
Off you go in a puff of smoke
Twinkle twinkle etc etc.

Or something like that anyway :rotfl:

Sami Bee, I'm going to have to buy that now - her teacher has a repertoire of silly poems that she teaches them and Olivia thinks they are totally hilarious. She would so love that book.

In that case I insist that you get her the book and also get her "please mrs butler" too http://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Mrs-Butler-Verses-Puffin/dp/0140314946
I might have to get a new copy as I remember mine was falling apart as it was my fave:D

on the comfort object my friend's LO's comforter has his own facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=53593236702&ref=mf
she has 3 spare ones that you can see in the photos but Tilly can tell the difference apparently