The curse of teddy

[Daddster]

It seemed like such a good idea - giving my 2yo DD my 35-year old Steiff bear which is now an indispensable part of the bedtime routine. So nice seeing them snuggled up together.

Until...you go on holiday and leave the blasted thing at home and come bedtime it is a couple of hundred miles away and you have to put up with hours of inconsolable sobbing where's teddy gone? every night for a week, she has to come into your bed and it totally buggers up your whole holiday because everyone's too knackered to enjoy it.

The only alternative is to order another scrotty second-hand one which for inexplicable reasons people are prepared to pay £200 for on EBay. DO NOT DO IT. IN FACT, SELL YOUR OLD TEDDY ON EBAY, MAKE A MINT AND USE A SMALL FRACTION OF THE PROCEEDS TO BUY ABOUT 5 IDENTICAL ASDA TEDDY BEARS AND ROTATE THEM SO THEY ALL SMELL LIKE EACH OTHER AND YOU WILL BE [exhale] just fine (sorry for shouting).

lol poor daddster

Sounds like my worst nightmare

DS has a Noukie that hes slept with since a tiny baby and has to have every night. When we go away overnight I have to check/double check/triple check....(you get the drift?) that we've packed him.

Friends have a similar situation with their son -his is a Boots £3.99 snuggle blanket/bear thing but by the time he adopted it as his special sleep toy Boots stopped selling them and on ebay they were reaching £20+

God we are so lucky, our DD not fussed about teddy bears but ahs to go to sleep witha muslin, can be newly washed old whatever just as long as she has one, so we just pack loads when away and I go and buy more every now and again.

aww, poor daddster
poor daddster's dd

I moved house and accidentally put dd1's teddy in a bag for the tip instead of a bag to move house with us.

She still hasn't forgiven me.

Definitely has to be a washable teddy, especially after that time when DD wanted to sit (the quite small) teddy on the potty just after she'd had a poo and wee and he fell right in.

How on Earth can any manufacturer expect to get away with a "surface clean only" label? Do these people not understand the challenges a teddy has to encounter?

Oh lordy, I do sympathise. I know the friggin' disaster it would be if we lost soggy doggy in this house!

at the poo

DS2 has two identical teddies ( in case on egot lost)
He left both at grannies - diaster!
Had to ask for them to be sent separately in case one gotlost in transit.
Like the Royals don't travel in the same plane, heir and a spare!!

Teddy briefly became "Poo Bear" before he was scraped off, doused in disinfectant water (washes all the small wood shavings out unfortunately) and brushed with a stiff brush until the smell had all gone. Teddy always stays in bed upstairs now...

my 10 year old now puts Bear to bed in a special blanket on her bedside table because Bear is now more darn than bear. She is worried he will fall to bits if cuddled too much so he only goes to bed with her when she really needs him. An unexpected side effect of this for me is that I get extra notice of when she is upset - if Bear is in bed when I tuck her in then I ask a casual question in the morning to find out what's on her mind.

erm, have just started giving ds "bunny" ......suspect that we await a similar disaster but see thumb sucking thread for reason