What is a security blanket?
The blanket is a fetish object that children carry around with them everywhere. It may be a baby blanket, a plush, a piece of cloth … The toddler loves tight against him, suck or pampered. Sometimes he puts it against his face to fall asleep, sometimes she accompanies her thumb or bottle …
What is the security blanket for a child
The commitment to a cuddly almost always appears at the same time: around 8 months. At this age, children begin to realize he is a person separate from its mother, and the blanket helps him through the transition.
* It allows him to think about his mother until his return and to bear his loneliness.
* Thanks to her, he acquires more autonomy and a greater sense of security to new situations (daycare, park, doctor, etc.)..
The blanket is a kind of “bridge” between the known (the parents, the house) and the unknown. , Pressing against him, the child feels, “I do not know this place, I do not know these people, but part of my parents with me, against me.”
That is why psychologists call security blanket, a “transitional object”. According to Donald W. Winnicott, British psychoanalyst and pediatrician to whom we owe the term transitional object, it is actually the first possession of the child who does not belong to her own body (the breast is an element that separates the infant not him). By acknowledging the weight it has for their baby, parents should allow it to manage the first important thing in his life that is not part of himself.
That said, all children have no comforter. It depends on the small, but also countries! Indeed, the phenomenon is mostly Western, and even in Western countries, an estimated one in two children only appropriates really a security blanket.
Each child’s security blanket
How cuddly is it so unique? Simply because its smell and texture singular, accumulated over the days, secure the child. The toddler is very sensitive to smells, and those of milk, soap, skin of her mother enough to appease him.
So even if you deformed plush is just like another (purchased, for example, in the same place), it is not: its smell and wear give it a unique character. And woe to him who will lose: a lost security blanket, is sometimes the absolute tragedy! Especially if it happens around age 2, age of anger and autonomy.
Each child has a unique relationship with his blanket. Some people hang all day, others require especially when sleeping and when they are grieving or when they find themselves in a new environment.
Some tips loss protection blanket
* Get into the habit of regularly wash his blanket: he will accommodate them, and you can replace it easily.
* Allow 2 or 3 identical comforters that you will alternate.
* Enter your phone number above: it will be useful in case of loss.
* Over and out, attach it to your pushchair with a clamp.
