Blanket Train Your Baby

Every mother want’s their babies to sit still, maybe take a nap and not cry, especially when they are in public places, like church, on a plane or bus. Well, guess what? You can train them to do that. Using their baby blankets. In this post, we want to show you a method on how to blanket train you baby that worked for a lot of mommies.

Baby blanket training steps

What you have to do first is choosing a comfortable blanket. Try using the same blanket for all the training sessions until your child grows a little bit older. That way, he will develop a reflex and he will know when he sees that particular blanket that it’s time for him to sit still.

Now you have to choose some toys that your baby loves. Make sure that they don’t make any disturbing sounds. Have a bag full of them, because children love diversity. Also, use those toys only when you blanket training him.

The training process should begin at an early age. When he is old enough to check out his surroundings, you can put him on the baby blanket, where he should spend a good amount of time. But when he grows older, don’t over react, or he will get easily bored and start crying. More important is for him to take walks and learn new stuff then sitting still on a blanket, isn’t it?

Every day, you should put him on the blanket and give him the quiet toys that he likes. You can also try putting him to sleep (sing to him or simply talk). That way he will later associate the blanket with sleeping time.

You will have to repeat these steps for a long period of time. Remember that he is not able to understand what you want from him at a very early age, but if you have patience, results will show up in the end. Of course, he will want to get off from the baby blanket when he will be able to crawl, but you can always put him back on it and tell him “no“. In time, he will figure out that the blanket is the place where he has to stay:).

Here are some extra tips about blanket training

• Results only come if you are consistent. It is not something that happens over night, so be patient. Do not force your baby, do not get angry so he will do things because he is frightened and do not ask him for things that he can’t accomplish just yet.
• Is is a lot more difficult to blanket train a one year old baby. So, start the training when he is a only a couple of months old.
• If you want your baby to sit still at church, create a similar environment.  Play a CD with religious music and set up some chairs next to the blanket.
• Remember that baby blankets training also depends on the baby’s personality, so results may vary.

We wish you all the best of luck and feel free to tell us if these methods worked for you. If not, what did?

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