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28 May 2010, 10:17 pm

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My son sleeps with "Mr. Bunny", who has been with him since pre-school.


I love the name! I have a "Mr. Panda".


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02 Jun 2010, 6:51 pm

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My little guy loves all his stuffed animals, but they're not the only ones in his bed. He also sleeps with about a dozen books , a couple plastic coat hangers, an old plastic lamp shade, some flattened cardboard boxes, a wrapper of some sort that he picked out of a garbage can in school, and three lumps of rocks (neither smooth or nice looking, just regular rocks he picked up.). I can't toss any of them as he has named all of them, even the coat hangers and squished boxes and they're all his bedtime buddies. I just don't get it at all.

Does your kid have weird stuff he/she sleep with?


That's amazing - this post describes my 8yo son's bed totally!! !!



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02 Jun 2010, 8:35 pm

A dozen or so stuffed animals (we used to have a limit of five rule ...), a half-dozen books, manuals, and dictionaries... school papers, a few knick-knacks, and four blankets and quilts all piled together. Strangely, sheets are *not* required in his world, however, as I have had to make a rule about making sure sheets are on the bed before he goes to sleep.



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02 Jun 2010, 8:41 pm

Just curious: parents who tried to set a limit of stuffed animals in bed, why did you want to set a limit? I'm not trying to challenge you or be argumentative, I'm just curious because I can't think of why it would be bad to have too many stuffed animals in bed and I'm not a parent myself (sadly) so I'm probably missing the reason. So I was just wondering why limit it (or at least try to.) Thanks!


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03 Jun 2010, 1:51 am

I'm curious too. I say if it comforts your kids, let them have a zoo.

I'm amused no end by this topic by the way. I hope you all enjoy your children's quirks as much as i do reading about them.


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03 Jun 2010, 2:19 am

I sleep with a baseball bat while hugging a pillow tightly.

The baseball bat is for protection until I can get a gun. The pillow is for making me feel happy.


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03 Jun 2010, 6:29 am

My 11 year old son sleeps with his "three" different blankets, and his current favorite transformers :) oh and me LOL



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22 Jul 2010, 1:40 am

I sleep with a Fokltails puppet! He's a lovely green Dragon named Wantley (yes, after the poem), and he's been with me since my 16th birthday. I swear I have less bad dreams when he's with me.



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22 Jul 2010, 3:25 am

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I'm grown-up but I sleep with scores of plush animals, heaps of books and dictionaries, my graphing calculator, a bottle of water, and a holstered Sig 9mm in my bed. Math puzzle books and ink pens often make guest appearances when a new one comes in the mail until it's all solved up.

I wanted to do that with my Springfield XD-9mm but my Dad talked me out of it. It wasn't forbidden (as long as it was stored with an empty chamber Israeli style) but heavily discouraged.

I sleep with just blankets on my bed. I like the feel of multiple blankets during the winter but I often go without using any of them on a lot of summer nights. Other than that I have a pillow. I have a headboard too with a stereo, 2 of 3 of my alarm clocks (yes it really is that hard for me to wake up at times), and miscellaneous stuff.


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22 Jul 2010, 3:10 pm

y-pod wrote:
My little guy loves all his stuffed animals, but they're not the only ones in his bed. He also sleeps with about a dozen books , a couple plastic coat hangers, an old plastic lamp shade, some flattened cardboard boxes, a wrapper of some sort that he picked out of a garbage can in school, and three lumps of rocks (neither smooth or nice looking, just regular rocks he picked up.). I can't toss any of them as he has named all of them, even the coat hangers and squished boxes and they're all his bedtime buddies. I just don't get it at all.

Does your kid have weird stuff he/she sleep with?


Yeah - what's with the coat hangars? I find 2 or 3 in my DS's bed often. Just doesn't seem like the most comforting item to bring to bed :lol:



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26 Jul 2010, 3:47 pm

My 8 yr old daughter sleeps with me. Specifically - all squished up against me, lol. :lol: She loves to lay her head on my arm because she says it's comfortable and it takes her longer to fall asleep without it. So, every night I lay in bed waiting on her to fall asleep so I can pull my arm out from underneath her head because I can only fall asleep on my left side for some ret*d reason - I can never fall asleep while laying on my back.

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Yeah - what's with the coat hangars?


My daughter likes to play with them, but not sleep with them. I usually find them hanging off of something in some weird looking hanging artwork that I then have to figure out how to take apart so I can use them. :lol: