s/o Blanket training

sunnyday016 · November 2009

Doesn't it kind of go out the window once the kid can walk? How can a child even learn to walk in such a confined space?

BetchySprout · November 2009

sunnyday016:
Doesn't it kind of go out the window once the kid can walk? How can a child even learn to walk in such a confined space?

From what I have read on blogs of families who do it, it is more like making the blanket a wall-less playpen. They are allowed "out" when the parents allow them out, but when they are placed in/on the blanket, they are to stay within its borders.

AzaleaM · November 2009

My husband used to have a dog that was trained that way Confused

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · November 2009

fredalina:
i hope they use BIG blakets and not receiving blankets. And i hate play pens.

On the playpen part, what do you purpose us working moms use when our children wake up early in the morning and won't keep their hands off anything? DS is a danger to himself right now as he doesn't understand cause and effect and will pull things over on himself and so on and so forth as I am getting ready. Yes, I pay close attention to my child but not looking for 30 seconds while I put on my mascara could end with a lamp on his head if he weren't in his pack and play.

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · November 2009

Ah, ok. I used to put him in his exercauser but now that he is mobile it just does nothing but piss him off. Really, the pnp does too but he has to be kept safe because I have to get ready for work and in there at least he can move about and play wih toys.

sunnyday016 · November 2009

fredalina:
EveryNameIWantIsTaken:

fredalina:
i hope they use BIG blakets and not receiving blankets. And i hate play pens.

On the playpen part, what do you purpose us working moms use when our children wake up early in the morning and won't keep their hands off anything? DS is a danger to himself right now as he doesn't understand cause and effect and will pull things over on himself and so on and so forth as I am getting ready. Yes, I pay close attention to my child but not looking for 30 seconds while I put on my mascara could end with a lamp on his head if he weren't in his pack and play.

Oh, hon, i'm not judging YOU for using them when you need to. i just don't like them for myself. Right now i use the jumperoo for stuff like that because she really enjoys it and it keeps ehr engaged for a while, but i know there are probably others who think it's a bad idea too.

Right now I use the jumparoo for this too. But I know the day is coming when the jumparoo won't do it and I may need to get out the pack n play so I can take a shower without worrying about what she's getting into.

WiggleBaby · November 2009

i have recently had to resort to the pnp for short times here and there now too even though we never used it before... she outgrew the jumperoo (i never liked to use it much anyway cuz it's not good for their hips or whatever but she loved it!)... when i really need to go to the bathroom or sign for a package at the door, there's not much else to do where she's safe! i had never heard of blanket training - i opened this post thinking it was about a baby using a security blanket, lol!

SoonToBeTabor · November 2009

Ill stick to go old fashioned baby watching vs. trying to make her sit on a blanket and train her to sit there.

I was never any good at training my dog, there is no way I could train a child.

Just another reason why I love my wraps and slings!

adamwife · November 2009

Pattypoundcake:

sunnyday016:
Doesn't it kind of go out the window once the kid can walk? How can a child even learn to walk in such a confined space?

From what I have read on blogs of families who do it, it is more like making the blanket a wall-less playpen. They are allowed "out" when the parents allow them out, but when they are placed in/on the blanket, they are to stay within its borders.

Yes. I blanket train my boys.

Hippinski · November 2009

Until this post I had never heard of blanket training. No one I know IRL uses it so this was new to me. Totally NMS.

lanie30 · November 2009

I don't have anything of value so I just let Jo roam wild all day. So does our DCP. Maybe that's why I don't see the need to keep my kid on a blanket but, how very odd.

alina*marie · November 2009

Hippinski:
Until this post I had never heard of blanket training. No one I know IRL uses it so this was new to me. Totally NMS.

ditto.

moroccojade · November 2009

alina*marie:
Hippinski:
Until this post I had never heard of blanket training. No one I know IRL uses it so this was new to me. Totally NMS.
ditto.

Add me to this ditto, too.

The_Spanish_Inquisition · November 2009

I was blanket trained as a child. I see nothing whatsoever wrong with the principle of it, which is to give the child a safe place to play without confining them to a crib, playpen, or saucer/bouncer/highchair.

My only problem with it comes from people who use it as an excuse to ignore their children, but plenty of people do that without blanket training.

And FWIW I was never "switched" - my mother used redirection and positive reinforcement. Switching isn't a necessary part of blanket training (or any other kind of training), and is really more a reflection of personal parenting style than of blanket training itself.

ETA: addressing the "how do they learn to walk" question - BT isn't meant to be a long term thing; as in, here's your blanket, now don't move off of it for the next 12 hours. It's meant to be a place to play safely while parent gets dressed, showered, or makes dinner. Just like a bouncer, saucer, or playpen.

CalinsBride · November 2009

*Goes to Google blanket training*

moroccojade · November 2009

I hear what you're saying, Spanish. I guess I just thought it was so wonderful for DD to start exploring as she wished when she started crawling. And as an EC mom I was *thrilled* when she started crawling to the bathroom! lol.

I admit if I really needed a couple of minutes I'd put her in her crib with some riveting toys. A couple of minutes on a blanket sounds no different. Thanks for the different perspective. The Duggar way and the Wikipedia definition of blanket training doesn't make it sound appealing, though.

The_Spanish_Inquisition · November 2009

moroccojade:

I hear what you're saying, Spanish. I guess I just thought it was so wonderful for DD to start exploring as she wished when she started crawling. And as an EC mom I was *thrilled* when she started crawling to the bathroom! lol.

I admit if I really needed a couple of minutes I'd put her in her crib with some riveting toys. A couple of minutes on a blanket sounds no different. Thanks for the different perspective. The Duggar way and the Wikipedia definition of blanket training doesn't make it sound appealing, though.

ITA agree with the Duggar/wiki definitions. It does sound pretty hateful when you look at it that way.

I think BT is more common among people who don't have the means to do it any other way, and people like the Duggars, where it's just not logistically possible to keep that many kids in bouncers/saucers/cribs whatever.

I know it was a necessity for my mother, financially - they were AP, but not by choice! I didn't even have a crib until I was 2, because they were just too poor. So I think the BT was a reaction to really not having any other option.

The Duggars drive me up the wall anyway, for all the reasons mentioned here and in other threads.

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