in my opinion you are never to old for your teddy.......  i still have "snowflake"   a doll my dad brought back from a trip to germany when i was 6 mths old  i out grew her for many years in the teenage yrs but when i became pregnant w/my daughter in '93 my mom gave her back to me from storage in her basement

my daughter still has her "teddy"  my dad gave it to her   she has had it since she was a day in old in the hospital  he has been given alot of lovin over the years  now she is 13 and he doesnt go on over night sleepovers anymore he still is on her bed every morning when she makes her bed  you know come to think about it i'm not sure when she stopped sleeping w/him 

your daughter will wean herself off in her own time  besides she isn't hurting anyone or herself w/having her teddy

good luck w/the family

hi, I am 29 this year and i still have my "froggy' I had since i was 2.  Now my daughter who will be 5 this year has enherited it .

So dont listen to what "others" say, you do what you want and what is best for your child.

It gets me really angry, that people feel they have the right to tell you what to do with your own child. They all forget what worked with them and their children may not work for you. good luck

I'm 28 years old and I still have all my teddy bears, most have gone to my daughter, but the first teddy bear that i got when i was first born, sits on my bed and i cuddle him at night, it's a comfort thing, and most of my friends think that I'm crazy,but I really don't care. 

Good luck.

Kel

no not to old. your daughter may just need comfort. she is only 2.5 and thats ok. leave her with her teddy it woant do any harm.

good luck

i do agree with all of you they need a little comfort  someone they can talk to nothing wrong it my daughter has a teddy well several and she thinks they are great friends i often hear her at night if she is sent to her bed early telling her teddy what happened and then we talk the three of us......mind u my husband thinks i am mad but communication is great with the little ones even if u have to talk to a teddy as well.....So leave her with her teddy and she will be fine....I am sure we all had a something for comfort when we where little..  Take care now and time is precious with the babies they grow so fast......

My 2 year old has his "Blankie" and takes it everywhere, if he misplaces it he searches everywhere and when he finds it he gives it cuddles and tells it "i wuv u blankie" so I wouldn't dream of taking it away from him and he has gotten to the stage where he knows once a week Blankie has to have a bath so he smells beautiful

My brother also had a blankie and he had it until it was only 2 inches x 2 inches because he had it so long it eventually fell apart

Let her keep teddy as long as she wants it !!!!!

You're never too old to have a comfort thing. My daughter turned 4 last month, and she would take her blankey every where with her, even to kindy, shopping and everywhere. It never left her sight.

She only has blankey  now to sleep with, and it stays in her bedroom all day and night.

I won't take it off her as she adore's this thing. I have a  mickey mouse that i've had since i was 9 months old and it's soooooooo patched up every where, i won't get rid of it, and i'm like 33.

My 3 year old still takes her monkey to school with her (she goes to an early learning centre).  She loves it.  The monkey has become a bit of a mascot with her class even!

My 4 and a half year old has toys she really adores and used to take everywhere, but she's slowly becoming less attached to them, but that's her own doing, not anyone elses.

I really fail to see why a child should be detached from a comfort toy like that.  It's not doing any harm (where thumbsucking for comfort, for example, can harm their bite) so why can't a child just be allowed to choose when - and if - they want to give up a toy!

I am with you on this one Pito.

If she is happy let her go.

My nearly 4 year old son was a terrible sleeper, at 14months we stayed in a sleep center for 5 nights. He was very attached to his "cuggie" which was a muslin wrap. He had to have it to sleep. This help him alot when he had to be put into a bed at the centre coz he climbed out of the cot. He found comfort in his "cuggie".

 He still has it, although it is not the same one, he now has 2 of my sarongs for his "cuggie". He only has them at sleep. As a toddler he knew when I got "cuggie" it was sleep time.

Some of my family have said " dont you think he is alittle old for that now?'

I look at it this way, my son now sleeps throu the night and if we go anywhere to stay he feels safe and secure with his "cuggie". He takes it to school for rest time and many other children have teddys or blankies for rest time too.

I dont see the problem with having a comfort at sleep time or when they are upset. I take comfort in knowing that Noah is feeling safe, secure and happy when he stays away from me ( not that it happens often).

no at 2  i think she not  to old at  all  , alot of kids have  they specail toy or blank, pillow up to the age of 5   that they take everywhere with them .I be telling the family member to leave her alone as she is just upsetting  your little girl.

there are poeple out  that take there teddy with them traveling when they get older and still have the teddy from child hood sitting on there beds its reminds of the good times  in child hood

I don't think she is to old for a teddy.. My mother has so many and she is 50... But she does not carry hers every where she goes.

I think this is fine for a two year old...  It is her comfot toy...

I personally think that if my son had a toy that he carried every where with him there would come a time when he did not want it any more. I am sure your daughter is not the first and won't be the last person to be dragging a teddy or even a blanket every where they go.  I say let her take her teddy bear where ever she wants, she still a child. And when the time comes and she does not need it any more then she'll let you know. That teddy bear will be a memory for years to come. And in time it may just become plesent memories for your grandchildren.

I don't think there is an age when to stop. I'll admit I still have a little comfort bear for when I get homesick... I'll sit with him. He has an Australian flag on the front of his shirt, and a very dear friend gave it to me. 

Your daughter  turns to her teddy when the world seems hard. I turn to my pillow and give it a big squeeze and cry into that.  I am sure she does not love the teddy more then you though.  :)   It is a different kind of love...

Basically what I am trying to say is, if the bear keeps her happy then I see no problem in letting a child of 2 and even older cuddling up to a favorite toy. And for those that say she does not need it, how do they know? Did she tell them? If she did not need it she would not still be holding onto it...

Let kiddies be kiddies while they still can be.  ANd by the way that is a very cute little girl you have...

Yes it is "the teddy" in the picture!  

 Pito