Can you sleep without your favourite gee-gee?
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (139933)
Philippines
September 25, 2012 11:57pm CST
I just remembered my youngest sibling when he was still a toddler, he can't sleep without his gee-gee. That is, his fave blanket. He used to grab the blanket with the manner of crampling a piece of paper. He feels terrified and tantrums will be followed, if the fave blanket is out of sight. But now, he overcame this kind of childish habit. Are you like him, can't take a nap without a gee-gee?
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@rohithkiran (4)
• India
26 Sep 12
i cant sleep without pillow eventhough i dont hav one favourite, its only because i feel comfortable if i have 3 pillows and one blanket.
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@shaloiianna (12)
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26 Sep 12
Oh! how cute of your youngest sibling having tantrums without his favorite blanket. My daughter uses a binky and that helps her sleep. Without her binky, it will be hard for her to sleep tight. And, even when she's already sleeping and found that her binky was lost, oh my! it's crying hard time! She will look for it until she finds it and will get back to sleep again.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
oh this topic is so cute.. i remember when i was younger, there was really nothing that i had to have so i can sleep but my mom kept telling us about how my brother has this one small pillow where he would rub the side of it and it would really be black already but they can't wash it because he wouldn't be able to sleep and they just had to bring it with them everywhere they go back then.
@joliefille (3690)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
My 3-year-old niece is the same! She won't sleep in her parents' bed because her bed in their room is a new one, she wants the old one instead, the one she's gotten used to sleeping in for like a year.
In my younger years, I did have a favorite red pillow which I would usually put in between my legs during sleep. Lol. It was quite a long time before I parted with it. I had to part with it because it was already worn and torn haha.
@joliefille (3690)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
My cousin who's now 18 years old used to be so attached to her mosquito net until after she was 7 years old lol. It would go smelly for days as she wouldn't give it up then.
@jazel_juan (15746)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
gee-gee? lol that is cute. Well my kids were not conditioned that way, they can sleep with or without their fave blankets. I just had a similar situation with my 5 year old who cannot sleep without holding my hand..so i need to let him hold my hand so he could sleep but lately, he is trying to get it out of his system.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
What I remember is that I had my favorite pillow case when I was young. Also, I can't sleep if there's no blanket around me. I always cover myself with a blanket, from head to toe. LOL. Happy mylotting.
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@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
26 Sep 12
I used to sleep with a blanket, I don't think it was so much of a security piece but more ownership of something. I know of kids who patiently wait by the washer and dryer until it comes out smelling clean and fresh so they can hold it snugly. I was shopping one day in an antique shop and I saw the material that my childhood blanket was made from.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
26 Sep 12
I had a toy stuffed elephant I slept with, but as I got older, the desire to sleep with it faded.
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
26 Sep 12
I was like this for long time that I can't sleep without my baby blanket which my husband calls it scratchy so he doesn't like me to use it and I finally can get rid of this habit because since we have moved here, the weather is just so hot that even though with the A/C turned on, I don't want to wear a blanket, but the fall is coming soon, I will tkae it out and use it again.
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
26 Sep 12
I was like this for long time that I can't sleep without my baby blanket which my husband calls it scratchy so he doesn't like me to use it and I finally can get rid of this habit because since we have moved here, the weather is just so hot that even though with the A/C turned on, I don't want to wear a blanket, but the fall is coming soon, I will tkae it out and use it again.
@BethelSophia (538)
• Philippines
27 Sep 12
When I was a child I don't have that kind of experience, but my friend's daughter is like that, she's already 5 this time but she still can't sleep without her old blanket. According to her mom she's been using that blanket when she's one and I can really see that it's true for the blanket really looks old and the white color became dirty white not only that it's really not presentable. Yet her daughter love it so much that she can't sleep without using it, she will really look for it despite the fact that her mother tried to keep it.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
26 Sep 12
It is exactly the same with my elder son who developed this habit as a child. Now he still has this habit of his favorite blanket when he sleeps. It is strange that a child should have this kind of habit.
@apoljuice1 (730)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
My daughter is the same way. She has a stuffed lion that she's had since she was a baby. She could not go to sleep without it. Sometimes, it's even one of the things that would put her to sleep if she lying on the bed just watching tv. The moment she drapes her stuffed lion over her face, you could expect in a few minutes that she'll be asleep. I've been trying to find another one of these stuffed toys to no avail. For some reason, I can't find the exact same stuffed toy. Either they stopped making it since it's been four years since she first got it. I mean, the stuffed toy is so ratty and dirty and the material inside it has seemed to shrink. But my daughter loves it no matter what it looks like.
@ferianneful (148)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
I had my own gee-gee, I can's sleep without my only favorite pillowcase. I have this pillowcase that I use. It's as old as me. I never sleep without it. It's frayed and torn on some parts but I never throw it away.
@else22 (4317)
• India
26 Sep 12
I don't like to cover my body with a blanket unless it is too cold.I like to sleep light.Sometimes when I get a chance to sleep in a closed room,I like to sleep even without with my cloths on my body.But when I was a middle school student,I liked to sleep with my pen under my pillow.It helped me have a sound sleep.I have always loved pens.Even now I like to sleep with my pen under my pillow.
@tinetine161992 (431)
• Philippines
26 Sep 12
Yeah before, children mostly feel that. They cant sleep without their favorite thing. Maybe because they feel more secured and relax every time they have their favorite thing. And their nothing wrong about it. Time will come they will discover by themselves that they can live without that.
@Jatelo2 (166)
• Nairobi, Kenya
26 Sep 12
Not even when I was a child. I hadn't even seen something extra that I would need to sleep apart from my bed and the blanket. Any your sibling's situation is interesting!