Comfort Blankets

Savvy_Sue

I don't want to cut it up and it's really the edging that she likes rather than the blanket itself, so that idea's out really :-/

Keep looking for something with a similar edging then! If it's the corners she's going for, seems like it's a texture 'thing'.

Lucie_2

Keep looking for something with a similar edging then! If it's the corners she's going for, seems like it's a texture 'thing'.

This seems quite common. My nephew (now 14) had a favourite teddy with a "twiggly" label which he would rub between his fingers to get to sleep. Apparently a "twiggly" label is a ribbon type label - M&S are the best so I'm told.
When Ted got lost, my sis managed to get another one, but it had a hard papery/plastic label & just wasn't the same. He then transfered his affection to an M&S toy because it had the right sort of label.
He's turned into a very well rounded normal human being, so it didn't do him any harm.

Sarahsaver

My Mum works in a haberdashery. She tells me she has quite a few customers buying ribbons for young kids to hold. She says its especially little boys who like doing this! Her theory is that when babies are breastfed they may grab onto the bra strap, which usually (hopefully!) is smooth and nice to feel, hence the little kids' attachment to pieces of ribbon.

Js_Other_Half

Although I don't have kids, I do remember my younger brother having a comfort blanket. Dad tried several times to get rid of it when my brother was 3, but Mum was usually too quick to notice it had gone and rescue it

Anyway, one day Dad was slyer than Mum - and it got thrown out. My brother was distraught, and took to carrying a pillow with him when he was in the house for the next 10 years or so!

Moral of the story - don't get rid of it behind their back - it can cause more problems than it solves.

(I sucked my thumb until I was 13...lol )

beanytot

I thought we had 'got away' with our son not having an object of affection...when he was about 15months, we went into a 'Birthdays' store for a card and he pointed to a little lamb. As he hardly ever asks for things and as he had been such a good boy, I bought it for him and he is now inseperable from 'Lamba'. Fortunately, we made a return visit and bought up all their 'lamba' stock incase of emergency! Just as well really as little chap has a habit of bringing her into the bathroom to watch bath being run and then flinging her in!

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for kids to had an attachment item...I too have read things which say it makes them more secure. As far as Lamba's concerned, if she helps ds sleep well, she's welcome in our home!!

jellyhead

by the way i've had a lovely book for christmas called 'tatty ratty'. it was a gift set including a toy of the cuddly rabbit in the book.

anyway, a girl leaves her favourite toy on the bus and the story is about all the things she and her parents discuss that the toy might be doing. during the course of the story lots of things happen that involve the worn well-loved toy being made fatter, being brushed and having new buttons, being rolled in moon dust to make him bright white again etc. - essentially everything that's required to turn a tatty old toy into a new one. he eventually drifts down into 'kingdom of bunny' (a shop full of rabbit toys!) so, knowing that he might look very different after his adventures to how he did before he got lost, the girl can be driven to the shop to find him (buy a new one). the new bunny whispers to her when she picks him up, so as far as the children reading the book are concerned it is indeed tatty ratty lol!

i thought it was a lovely book, could be very useful if a little one loses their favourite toy and you have to buy something else. ciaran had a beany baby iguana but it was tye dye! when he left it on the bus it was impossible to find one with exactly the same pattern and colours lol!

Jay-Jay_4

Thanks for all your replies !

We were out all day today, in the car and shopping. She had 'blanket' stuffed in her mouth all day  ::)

Before she had blanket she was very 'unsettled' in the pram and car seat. She can 'kick off' about the slightest thing  ::) The amazing thing about 'blanket' is that it acts like a couple of Prozac  ;D

After reading all your replies, I can see no real harm to her having this comfortor when she's 'chilling out' so I'm not going to worry about it anymore.

I will master the art of 'swipe, wash and dry'  ;)

we went into a 'Birthdays' store for a card and he pointed to a little lamb. As he hardly ever asks for things and as he had been such a good boy, I bought it for him and he is now inseperable from 'Lamba'.

    On the shopping trip that I mentioned before, where she wouldn't go to sleep in her pram....I ran in to birthdays and in desperation, bought what sounds like exactly the same thing. Ours is called Baa Baa  ;D  It's about No2 favourite thing after 'Blanket'  ;D


Bargain Bunny, that book sounds great...may have a look about for it for the future  

Savvy_Sue

If it's a toy that's being used, it may be shape which is important, too.

Youngest had Clownie, bought for his first Christmas and still in bed with him 12 years later. Clownie is one of those dolls with the different fastenings: button, bow, buckle, zip etc.

Clownie didn't usually leave the house with us, but sometimes he did, and one Friday when youngest was about 3 he took Clownie on the school dawdle without me noticing. I was very active on PTA etc in those days, so spent a few minutes in an empty classroom doing jobs, and then went home.

Come bedtime, and Clownie was NOWHERE to be seen. I kept very calm, and so did youngest, and I said that Clownie seemed to have been left at school, and I was sure he would be OK on his own, and wasn't it a big adventure for him?

Youngest calmly went to toybox and found a Penguin who hadn't been much in favour before, and went to bed with Penguin. I didn't comment, let him get on with it, all fine through the weekend, and on Monday morning we picked Clownie up, none the worse for wear. Come bedtime, and Penguin was relegated in favour of Clownie.

I was fascinated by this, and told him I was very impressed about how good he'd been not to make a fuss about Clownie. And I asked why he'd chosen Penguin. And it was the shape! The beak pointing up felt like Clownie's hat, different texture, but same comfortable shape!

mini

I had a freind whose daughter had a blanket which became really grotty so she let her daughter exchange it for something in a toy shop, she chose a cloth dolly said bye bye to blanket as it went in the bin, she was 2 1/2, she may be open to negotiation as she gets older!

I dry toys on the radiator, you heartless lot pinning them up by the ears

elona

I made a hammock! I am not as cruel as you think.