https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:24:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839921 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:04:13 +0000 themrsgoff 2839921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been wondering about this myself. My son is highly attached to his lovey - one of those softies with an animal head attached. He sucks on it while he falls asleep most nights and usually wants to take it out with him first thing in the morning. I've been curious at which point he will transition to something like a stuffed animal (he has a few he's fond of, but nothing he's attached to to the degree of the lovey). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839886 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:01:39 +0000 Truth Bombs 2839886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: Can you get another one of them, and then cut it into smaller squares that are for outside the house? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839869 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:25:24 +0000 misolee 2839869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my six year old is still attached to her lovey (A&amp;A blanket) that she drags around the house but she knows it's not allowed outside the house. I'm pretty sure I implemented that rule a little before she was 3 bc she would take it everywhere. We have another rule that it should stay on her bed but I only halfheartedly enforce it bc it's not a big deal but I need to keep reminding her bc I found her one morning on the toilet with the blanket in her lap :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839833 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:48:18 +0000 Sams Mom 2839833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@castilrm: hahaha, my son had the wooden sandwich kit from Melissa &amp; Doug, and slept with the burger the first couple nights he had it. :P</p> <p>One more reason I need to ditch co sleeping, I wake up with his current obsession buried in my kidney after he lets go of it. I've had a golf ball, wooden burger, bouncy ball, all sorts of stuff... ughhhh</p> <p>I. WILL. SLEEP. TRAIN. MY. SECOND. CHILD. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839780 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 22:20:02 +0000 castilrm 2839780@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My guess is he’ll trade it for another lovey soon enough! My three year old gets attached to a toy and sleeps with it for a week or so and then trades it for a othe obsession. She once slept with one of those felt pieces of bread from a Melissa and Doug sandwich kit and I’d wake up to her screaming in the middle of the night that she lost her bread after it slipped through the crack on her bed. Luckily she’s moved on to a larger throw blanket that is easier to keep track of! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839747 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 18:39:03 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2839747@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: fingers crossed! My kid drags hers through the house 24/7 and it is glued to her or panic ensues, but she knows to drop it like it’s hot before we exit the house. Usually bestows a smooch and a hug on the little guy and then plunks him on the floor to be scooped up promptly when we arrive home. She also talks about her bunny as we pull onto our street or sometimes before. Haha. I wish I was loved so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839702 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:47:48 +0000 Sams Mom 2839702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Ajsmommy: He has so many small stuffed animals, and I wish he would pick one of them for ease of transport, but this blanket seems to be all that and a bag of potato chips to him. :\</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: &amp; @Mrs. Goose: Maybe I can get him to pick something in the dollar spot! I am realizing now that "Ne-Ne Night Night" (how he says trains and what he calls blankets) will need some rules. Like I don't mind if he drags it through the house, but it can only go with us if we're going out of town or spending the night with nana &amp; grandpa. Hopefully this works. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839677 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:08:27 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2839677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: can you just say it’s only allowed in the house or to go somewhere if he’s sleeping there in case it gets lost? That’s what we did for my nearly 3 year old with her much smaller lovey and it is accepted. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839671 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:47:04 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2839671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn’t go as far as saying LO’s blue blanket is a lovey, but he’s very fond of it. It’s larger than a throw blanket. It’s his first blanket layer when he sleeps at night and he gets tickled pink when he sees that I brought it on trips. The blanket has rules- it stays upstairs in his room for the most part. On one occasion it went to daycare, but LO didn’t like that he couldn’t have it back until it was washed. </p> <p>Due to its size I purposely have given smaller things to sleep with too like a soft rubbery dinosaur (Target $3 spot) and his tag blanket from when he was a baby. He can bring those items almost anywhere and they are comforting. Long story short try adding something else that is a bit more portable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839658 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:46:55 +0000 Ajsmommy 2839658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD has two... one is her blank that has been with her since she turned 1, she hasn't changed it and I can't imagine she'd let me swap it for anything... </p> <p>Her other lovey is a stuffed animal and from 1 yo it was a pillow puppy... but we went to Disney when she was 4 and she picked a new stuffed animal and that has now become her lovey. </p> <p>So basically she did change one of her lovies but she did it, we didn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839657 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:45:56 +0000 Sams Mom 2839657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I am hoping he rotates out of this one, just because it's so big. It's not bad around the house, but out in public it's just a pain! He has drug it around for a couple weeks now. </p> <p>@Silva: I am on the hunt for like the perfect Thomas the Train lovey (might sew one), and then tell him we can leave the big one at home because that's where it lives, and then we can take this little one everywhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839656 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:41:37 +0000 Silva 2839656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My friend's son became attached to a metal back hoe. She told him he couldn't sleep with it, and helped him make a bed for it out of a shoe box.<br /> Could you just tell him it has to stay on the bed? And say that if he wants to bring something other places, it has to be one of the "portable" blankets? You could even make up some kind of imaginary story about it... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839654 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:38:42 +0000 Foodnerd81 2839654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of my kids change out their preferred loveys pretty often. They will be obsessed with one particular item for a few weeks than change on their own. Some have been more reasonable than others. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/ridiculous-lovey#post-2839652 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:30:28 +0000 Sams Mom 2839652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So my 2 year old up until this point did not have any kind of lovey he was attached to (even though I've bought a couple of the small blanket/stuffed animal combo ones for him). Well he has become very attached to this giant fuzzy thomas the train blanket, like it will cover a full size bed. I have tried substituting it for smaller comparable things (fuzzy, thomas, fuzzy thomas) and it's all a no go. </p> <p>Has anyone ever successfully swapped out a lovey, and not just snuck in a duplicate for laundry, daycare, or loss? </p>