I have 5 kids and none of the older 4 ever had a lovey or a safety blanket or anything so I’m intimately familiar with how easily things get destroyed or lost but nothing has ever been critical.
My youngest is 14 months old and she has a blanket that I swear is more calming to her than her father or myself. She rubs it on her cute little face and she really focuses on it and settles down immediately. She loves this thing.
The issue is the blanket she chose is this super low quality polyester baby blanket that I think I paid $4.99 for at TJ Maxx. I’ll never find the same one again and it will not stand the test of toddler time.
She has high quality blankets that to me feel very similar or even nicer. Someone got her a Little Giraffe blanket that I would feel ridiculous dropping a $100 to replace but it’ll be an option if we had to. Also have a similar blanket from Pottery Barn which the store near me has sold for years and my 7yo’s still looks brand new (although she was never obsessed with it). But she will dig through them to find the ONE.
Anyway is there anyway, since she’s only 14 months old, for me to swap out her lovey? Or is it our fate to be protecting a ripped up tattered old thing with our lives for the next however many years?