Almost every child I've ever known has needed that special something to cart around. I had one, my sister had one, and I'm positive my baby will have one too. It's a comfort thing.

... I used to have a pillow case. Not a stuffed animal (though I had plenty of those), but a pillow case. And it was a very specific pillow case, too.

Neither of my kids have one.  But they have both loved their pacifiers for sleeping.  (I took it away from my son when he turned 2 and will do the same with my daughter).  I'm not sure why but neither of them ever got attached to a blanket or toy or anything.  Maybe it was because I didn't put anything in their bed with them while they were infants.....

My son sucks his thumb, so that's kind of his lovey.  We have a little bear that sleeps in the crib with him, and he likes having his bear in his crib, but he's not especially attached to it.  Now, try to keep him from sucking his thumb and you'll have a serious fit on your hands!

It's not quite the same, (though I've done that with beanie babies) but my own current comfort object is a ring my boyfriend gave me the night we admitted to having liked each other for ages. I kiss it before bed and stuff. I guess that's the teenage and up version.

He has a blanket he prefers, I am not sure he is old enough yet to really lug things around, but the blanket certainly makes him happy.

i had a white teddy bear in a pink jumpsuit that i slept with(took everywhere overnight). I lost it last spring, at age 17. It was a little sad. my mom gave me a monkey when i moved to college. i only sleep with it because i need something to hold on to. i'm not attached to it, because if i roll on top of it at night it screeches

My babies are both very attatched to pacifiers and nothing else. I hate this sometimes because it looks as if my two year old may never be ready to give his up. He insists on holding at least one extra as he falls asleep each night in addition to the one in his mouth. He also thinks that all the pacifiers in the world belong to him (which he feels warrants him jerking the paci from the mouth of any other child that might happen to be sucking one). On the up side, if we loose one, I can just buy another. Also, I can just cut all ties they have with it at my discretion, unlike the thumb. Still, I think a blanky could have been a better choice... oh well.

M needs Pooh Bear to sleep... doesnt matter the size... it has to be Pooh.  We have 6 of them.

One would think that a little girl only 2 1/2 would have a lovey like a stuffed animal or a pink blanket of some kind. Well for my daughter Kassidy she has this backpack full of cars, trucks, planes, and trains. She brings them everywhere. She always piks on for bedtime and has that one she picks in her bed with her when she falls asleep. We've tried to get her to like "girly" things but nope she wants the cars.

I had a blanket and a bunny. ... I still do :)

She has a blanket that she calls "Taggy". She only wants it when she's going to sleep.

Does no one remember? I had a cotton nap blanket with a satin or wanna be satin fringe on it. I really liked how the satin felt, so I carried it with me.

In my 1-2 year old brain, running my fingers up and down the satin was extremely, I don't know, sensory pleasurable. I didn't like the cotton part, a blanket was a blanket, but the satin edges were good to touch, so I needed, I wanted to touch it, to hold. 3-4 year olds can't think that deep, but they can think enough, and remember. I had it since birth. By the time I could remember it had already done it's work.

I remember, so my kids are gonna have lots of textures to feel from the moment they emerge from the vag. Textures to feel, sounds to hear, , smells to smell, tastes to taste and languages to learn.

By age four that brain will be as wrinkled as a 1000 year old bulldog's face.

They will be smart, doesn't mean they will be successful.

There is not magic, only science. Can you remember?