When did your child give up his teddy, blanket, etc?
Well, I can tell you what age my siblings and I gave them up:
I never had one.
My sister kept her blanket until she was six or seven and it couldn’t be cut up anymore, then she got two new ones that she kept with her less and less until maybe the age of sixteen.
My brother got rid of his somewhere between his fourth and fifth birthdays when my mom refused to buy him more blankies.
My sister is 21, and still can’t sleep without her ragged old toy clown.
I stopped sleeping with my teddy when I was 12.[sup]*[/sup] My mother never forced me to stop or even said anything about it (unlike my older brother) but I eventually decided to give him up because I knew it would please her.
*Which probably explains a lot, really.
My son never had a security item. My nephew kept his blanket until he was 5 years old or so.
I have a bear (looks like the Snuggle bear, so I call him Snuggles; he’s plush and he plays music (wind up)) who is as old as I am and who was my Best Friend Ever until I was four or five. My mom packed him in a box and I didn’t see him again until I was 16; I cried like a little girl when I found him, and now Alex (my boy) plays with him.
my daughter (age 24) still has her cookie monster blanket under her pillow
I don’t have a child but I gave up my white teddy bear in 1st grade, I still have it though but now he sits in a chair all day, he is also more brownish now than white.
Older son never had one.
Younger son gave up having his blankie (which were various cloth diapers) in ‘public’ at 2 or so, probably gave up sleeping with it at 4 or 5.
I sucked my thumb at night until about 7 or 8.
Give them up? You’re supposed to give them up?
I’m 35, and I still have 2 of my baby blankets. I’m never giving them up!
One of my 19-year olds still hangs on to his blanket. We’re allowed to trim out the worn sections (so the blanket keeps getting smaller) but he keeps it on his bed.
Not exactly the same, but my 21 year old daughter has cheerfully informed us that she will kill us in our sleep if we ever touch her My Little Pony collection.
My wife still has hers, she’s 27 though, so you still win. I like to hide it and watch her scramble looking for it before going to bed at night. She knows all my hiding places now, though.
I’m 30 and I still have my stuffed dog, Jacquie. He is named for the song he plays, Frere Jacque. I don’t sleep with him but I’d never get rid of him.
26 and I still have my green Care Bear, Lucky, from when I was a babychild. He’s got a place of honor atop my dresser, and is in great condition for a stuffie his age.
My baby blankies are still hanging around somewhere in my room in TX.
I’m 18 and I still keep Bobster, my “teddy lobster*” in my bed. I don’t always have to have him in my arms, but I like to keep him close.
*In my family, any toy that you take to bed with you is a teddy. My little brother went through a stage when he would take a different teddy to bed with him every night, and he would take things like wrenches or screws or rocks.