Parenting Tips for Your 19-20 Month Old Toddler
Many children have special blankets, teddy bears, or toys. Some children take up with the strangest things. They claim them and call them their own forever, or at least until someone makes fun of them. The most common favorite object is a blanket. Your little one may appear every morning with one thumb in her mouth and the other hand holding a ratty, worn blanket.
There are some stories about security blankets that would truly surprise you. Heaven forbid if it should get lost, stolen (who’d want it?), or washed. Yet that blanket or teddy bear or toy is a friend who has shared your child’s life through thick and thin, in sickness and health, in good times and bad.
Most of us would welcome such a friend if it could do as much for us. What do you do about these special comforts and attachments? You leave them alone, because, in time your child will realize the blanket or bear or other toy isn’t going to solve life’s problems. He will come to realize he can solve his problems by himself. For now, let him enjoy his comforting “friends.”
