How to get a toddler to stop eating blanket fibers
Toddlers chew and swallow threads or fabric from comfort items like blankets and sleeves, leaving fibers stuck in their teeth and causing unusual breath odors. Taking the blanket away completely is often the only way to stop the behavior when redirection fails.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Providing alternative blankets or stuffed animals that are less likely to break down
- 2Continuously telling the child no
- 3Offering alternative chew toys with different textures
- 4Taking the comfort blanket away entirely and hiding it
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“recently it seems like he is literally eating parts of it.”source ↗
“He has threads stuck in his teeth often after a nap or bed and recently his breath has smelled consistently of paint thinner”source ↗
“Has anyone managed to get their child to stop chewing on a blanket successfully, or do I need to just take it away?”source ↗
“my son was doing the same, but with the threads from the socks for some odd reason.”source ↗
“My daughter had the same issues for a while with her sleeves/blanket.”source ↗
Where this came up
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