I remember my parents trying to get me to stop sucking my thumb. I was 3-1/2, I think. Mom got a small dropper of some anti-thumb-sucking solution that tasted really bad, and painted it on my thumb. I remember getting angry and being determined not to stop, and after a few times, she gave up. But then, very shortly after that, I stopped on my own. I guess it just had to be on my terms.
To my knowledge, I was never given a pacifier as a baby. Only recently have I tried (and liked) them.
My parents often talk about how miserable I was when they took away my “Nuk” (pacifier). Apparently I raised quite a bit of stink over the whole thing. I also of course remember stealing diapers from others as a very young child and always being fascinated with them when I was taken out of them.
My brother was breast fed until he was at least 3, and my parents had a tough time weaning him off of being breast fed…apparently that wasn’t such as big deal for me…mainly just the diapers and paci.
The firs memory I have is me running around outside in normal clothes (that is - no diapers or training pants, no onsies, etc), just shorts, underwear, shirt and shoes. I don’t even know what age this was except it was at the house that we moved from when I was 8.
My parents have tried to get me to stop sucking my thumb but that was because I never stopped. I still do that.
I remember what it was like having to sleep by myself for the first time. I was so scared for years I couldn’t sleep unless the blanket covered me completely head to toe.
Biggest memory was when I finally was able to use a booster seat instead of my regular carseat in the car, for some reasons, I was scared of it at first. I remember this a lot because I was celebrating my 10th birthday when I reached that milestone (it was my parents idea, I was still tiny and I’m not sure if that booster seat would have offered adequate protection in a crash but hey, it was 1990), I was afraid of the normal safety belt just going on my hips at that time (it was before the 3 point belts where installed in most cars in the back) I didn’t like it at first cause that booster seat didn’t go as high as my carseat did and it was hard for me to see outside, my dad had the bright idea to place an old telephone book under it and the problem was solved, I’ve mentioned before in carseat topic that I was a premature and barely the size of a 5 yrs old at 9 yrs of age, I have all the details of my growth and weight in a small book my mother gave me a long time ago.
My mother also told several times to other members of the family how easy I was to break of the bottle habit, I have no memories of this, I just know that’s one of my aunt that did it to me, I was around 22months old and my mother was pregnant and had to stay calm, so my aunt and one of my father brother took care of me for part of that summer. I have some strange memories of this place that were confirmed by my aunt, it was a trailer house and the strange detail I remember is the room where I was sleeping had a shaggy orange carpet, I was also able to describe the kitchen and it was a shock because I was nearly blind at that time cause they discovered cataracts in my eyes when I was 3 yrs old but its another story. Note here that I didn’t ever see that place again, they moved to a proper house a year after.
I remember going from crib to single bed. My mom made a big deal out of how wonderful this was and that the bed had a Hollywood headboard as she described it. I can remember my first bedroom very well. We moved from that house when I was 8 years old so that’s probably why I can still remember it. I also remember that about the same time as getting my first bed, my dad painted my bedroom robin egg blue, my mom explaining that to me as well.
Same here, I remember getting my thumb painted with stuff, I also stopped on my own to, I also remember seeing a kid in school (1st or 2nd grade) that sucked his thumb here and there, I remember being kind of repulsed by it.
I don’t know if this counts but I remember going from booster seat at the adult table during the holidays to the kids table in the other room off the dinning room
I remember when we got rid of my purple fuzzy car seat aaand from sleeping in a pack n play to a bed and then losimg my bob the builder sheets for boring adult ones and i never needed to worry about giving up my paci cos i sucked on everything i had a sully stuffy from 2001 i used for a while I could go on considering I remember everything from 9 months on but I dont want to ramble
I remeber the transition to sleeping alone, I slept with my bio mom until I was say 9 (even tho she was abusive but didnt really think that at the time was 9) .
And the transition to sippy cup to normal cups never happened LOL, I always remember having a sippy before night time, it stopped for a couple of years but when I was 13 I bought my own I believe
I remember going from the car seats to regular seats. I remember my car seat had the hard harness that goes across your front and it moves up and down like the roller coasters safety bars.