Am I mean?

You all make great valid points. Ahhh the newbie always learns by mistake right? My very first client had a dcg ( 3.5 at the time she started) that had this rather large brown blankie. I was so grateful to get my first client, it never occured to me the problem her lovie (blanket) would create allowing her to carry it all over the daycare :blink: Should have nipped it in the bud from day 1. But nope. Now I know better :rolleyes:

And that damn blankie stunk of pee 3 out of the 5 days of the week. Her mum only washed it once a week. Disgusting.

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Originally Posted by mom-in-alberta

Soothers, suckies, blankets, thumbs.... for comfort, not for play!!
I don't hate the idea of a lovey, but there is a time and a place. And that is NOT during play or snacktime!!

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These are my rules too. It's pretty funny that we are the ones who wean children off things like this. I had a boy start here in the summer who had his soother 24/7 and he was almost 2 1/2 years old!!! I weaned him off the soother within a month and talked the parents into following suit at home by pointing out that he can't form words properly because he learned to talk with that thing in his mouth. I still can't understand him but we're making progress.

HAHAHAHA... He threw a fit and took his pants off. I can picture it.

I have an 18 month old that's attached to the blanket. It only comes out for nap time too. Some days he gets really upset and stands at the door and cries for it. I simply ignore it and before long he has moved on to something else.

Thanks everyone! I think I'll start working on weaning him off the blankie except for naps. He comes the occasional half day and he doesn't even bring his blankie those days and he's fine - out of sight, out of mind! :)

The trick is getting the parents to bring it IN the bag and not child holding it in the car making you the meanie that has to yank it out of his hands - totally out of sight out of mind so he doesn't even know it came to your house but it is there in an emergency if child is having one of those days it can magically appear.