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When Lovey Is Lost

Ways to Prevent It and Helping Your Child Cope

By Renee Roberson

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Not all children who lose their loveys find such a happy ending, however.

Keep Your Friends Close, and Your Loveys Even Closer
Stacy DeBroff, author of The Mom Book: 4,278 Tips for Moms (Free Press, 2002), suggests buying duplicates of a beloved item if it is mass-produced so that one can stay at home while the other travels with your child to daycare, play dates and other outings. Or cut a favorite blanket into four pieces and do the same, leaving three of the quadrants in places where your child spends the most time, and tuck the fourth away in case of a lost square.

Neil Gussman, a dad from Philadelphia, Pa., used a bit of reverse psychology on his son, Nigel, to prevent his two favorite loveys, Elmo and Snakey (a stuffed panda and snake), from ever being lost.

Gussman says all three of his teenage daughters lost a favorite toy or baby doll at some point, while Nigel – who was adopted at 4 weeks and is now 7 – has not. "I make up stories for my kids," he says. "From his second birthday on I would tell stories in which Nigel was the cool, mature hero able to circle the globe (or neighborhood) for adventure. In these stories Elmo and Snakey whined and cried and wanted to stay home. They wanted to sleep. They were scared."

Gussman says that Nigel would laugh and laugh, and he never took Elmo and Snakey on trips. "He knew they wanted to stay home," he says. "He knew they would whine. So they stayed home and othe stuffed animals accompanied him on trips."


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