If your kid still has a lovey, how old are they?

goodheartedmommy

Ethan will be almost 5 and he still cannot sleep without lambchop and blue baby. Most of his friends bring lovey's to sleepovers I've noticed. It breaks my heart to think about him not wanting them any more. He also has my brother's doll from growing up (a boy cabbage patch). My brother slept with him until probably 8? I don't remember. How long do you think they'll stay attached?

r9stedt

Um, I have a lovey, FFS, and I am 26.

meghans30

My son is almost 6 and has a blanket and a monkey which have been his lovies since he was a baby. He used to bring them everywhere, but lately has forgotten them more and more. I'm thinking this stage will end soon.

gdemars

How did you get them to like the lovey?  I was hoping maybe something like this may help DS.

jettagurl

Ben still has to have something - right now it's his pillow pet.  But it changes.  Whatever he is attached to at that moment.  We thought he was going to be stuck to this walmart-quality stuffed dog he go for v-day one year. he carried it every where for a year, the neck had no stuffing left because he squeezed it between him and his elbow that way.  Once day he just ditched it.  Then he got attached to a stuffed gorilla, then a  Build-A-Bear dressed as Buzz, and now the pillow pet.  

I think he'll have to have something for several years.....Nat, on the other hand, could care less.  She'll occasionally sleep with something, but nothing consistant.  

Gabi is super attached to a blanket that was crocheted for her - that is adorable to me.

 

DandelionMom

10 y/o dd still likes her panda bears.  She doesn't need them anymore but she usually sleeps with them. 

goodheartedmommy

I don't think you get them to like a lovey. They either do or they don't. E's had lambchop since 6 months, attached at the hip, and blue baby since 2.5. He's had a lot of other babies and stuffed animals, but these are what he chose. He also had a blanket that we left at the ER--he never loved another one.

My girls have had lovies come and go, but not at an early age, and they're easily replaceable. Ethan's so hardcore that I bought a second lambchop and he knew what was up. I couldn't fool him. 

winery

4.5 and he has 2 bears (he found the spare a year ago). I will keep them when he grows tired of them. Okay, now I have to stop before I cry...

Jodi&Joe

Joey is 6 and Cam is 4...they both have a "B"...(blanket).  Cam actually has two identical ones. 

JOEBunny

I still have my lovey and I am 38, but I am not allowed to take it out of the closet.  It scares DH.  It is a girl doll named Robert. 

DD is 4.5 and still has hers.  I am so glad I bought 6 of them because it still looks decent.  I have written a couple of books about it and DD using pictures I have of the two of them together.  DD loves them.

DandR

Tay is 6 1/2.  She has a lovey.  Its in her bed and stays there and I don't see what the big deal is.

AnnapolisLari

The main ones are his stuffed Meerkat, KatKat and the mouse, Anatole. And the Pillow Pet.

He still has a rail on his bed, not to keep him from falling out, but to keep the 243 animals from doing the same.

firefightersgal

DD turned 4 in October and we must, must, must still have our lovey.

tslmom87

r9stedt:

Um, I have a lovey, FFS, and I am 26.

this! except im 23. lol  . t just got her first lovey a pink elephant and it will be between her and her lovey when she wants to let it go!

tslmom87

r9stedt:

Um, I have a lovey, FFS, and I am 26.

this! except im 23. lol  . t just got her first lovey a pink elephant and it will be between her and her lovey when she wants to let it go!

tslmom87

r9stedt:

Um, I have a lovey, FFS, and I am 26.

this! except im 23. lol  . t just got her first lovey a pink elephant and it will be between her and her lovey when she wants to let it go!

praline

DD is 3.5 and has a lovey called lambie.  He's like a member of the family!  I have no idea how long she'll have him...but I'm in no hurry for her not to need him anymore.  She is really cute with him...she'll talk about how he can hear her talking when she's at school and she plays with him instead of baby dolls. 

luluroo

both my boys (five and three) have a blanket.  My older son is starting to use it less and less....I told him when he gives it up completely, I get to sleep with it

Angela814

gdemars:

How did you get them to like the lovey?  I was hoping maybe something like this may help DS.

You just keep giving it to them. I started giving Charlotte a blanket to hold while she was nursing so she wasn't pulling my shirt all over the place or grabbing at my breasts. Now you give her that blanket and her pacifier, and she'll go right to sleep for naps (okay, just sometimes, but that's better than nothing).

Annalise is 4 1/2 and still has her blankie. It's a disaster if we try to even go somewhere in the car without it.

AnnapolisLari

We never really 'got him' to have a lovey. He picked them out. We found KatKat at a gift store at an animal park when he was about 21 months, and Anatole the mouse came along about 10 months later. Before that, he may have slept with a penguin, but it wasn't something that he HAD to have.