this post by The New Girl (who is a fantastically funny blogger, BTW). If you scroll down a couple of paragraphs, she is talking about switching her daughter's old doll with a new, identical doll and her child's reaction.
Hence, the fear.
The boy is totally attached to his blankie. There is a particular corner of it that he searches for. He'll start turning the thing around to feel each corner until he finds the "right" one. It's frustrating to watch when he's frantically searching and he's felt 3 of the corners, and I think it's almost over, but then he reverses his search and starts covering old ground. I've taken to putting the correct end of the blanket toward his face (yes, I know which friggin' corner it is) and hope he finds it right away. If he start twirling the damn thing, I step in and just hand him the correct corner. He then takes it and rubs it between his fingers like a talisman, or rubs it against his cheek. We take it on vacation with us because, simply, it is a lifesaver at times. WHAT. IF. I. FORGET. IT. AT. HOME?! Worse yet,
Do your kids have a similar object of love?
4 comments:
Mine don't but my little nieces LOVES her blankie too!! She's been carrying it around since she was two and is now 7 and let me just say it shows it wear that's for sure!! Her mom tried to switch it and NOPE wouldn't stand for it!! She is getting better though that she only uses it around her house and in the car!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
We've got multiple blankies that look nothing alike, and several teddy bears all named "baby" that John is quite attached to. At one point, blue "baby" was his favorite, but the minute I bought another blue baby so I could wash the first, John switched allegiances on me to to beige "baby", and I can't find another one to keep in storage. Worse yet, my smart kid figured out there were two blue babies, and demanded them both.......
Tommy isn't attached to anything like that. In a way, I wish he were...it almost seems like most kids are so I worry that something is wrong because he isn't. Then again, I don't have to worry about forgetting something or leaving it on vacation, which is quite nice. ;)
I worry that Theo will still want his pacifier when he is 12 or whatever. He is addicted to it. Damian wants us to stop it cold turkey and I'm afraid to...oh, the screaming that would entail (shudder). I know people hate seeing older kids with them, and so do I, and my kid is becoming one of them. UGH. Luckily he is almost just using it in the crib only.
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