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Security Blankets
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Security Blankets
安全毯

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Date: May 24 2013

Grammar: Simple Past Tense

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Did you have a security blanket when you were little? Something that you took everywhere and needed to fall asleep? Security blankets are comforting to children, especially if they’re scared of the dark. Some kids believe their blankets will keep nightmares away. Other kids become attached to a favorite teddy bear or pacifier. Do you remember yours?

Adults seem to keep security blankets for mostly sentimental reasons. Maybe people like remembering a time when all of their problems could be solved by hugging a blanket or bear. It’s fun to look for childhood mementos in old boxes and experience the nostalgia.

在你小的时候,你是否有条安全毯?或者,是否有你随身携带并且在睡觉时需要的东西?安全毯会让孩子们感到踏实,特别是当他们害怕黑暗时。一些孩子相信,他们的安全毯会赶走噩梦。另一些孩子会依赖他们最爱的泰迪熊或奶嘴。你还记得你依恋的东西吗?

成年人保留安全毯,似乎更多是出于感情需要。或许人们喜欢回忆抱一抱毯子或是泰迪熊,就可以解决所有问题的年代。在老旧的盒子里寻找儿时的纪念品,然后感怀一下逝去的岁月,也是件很有趣的事。

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Lily

Lily

Greta

Greta

Lily:   Greta?

Greta:  Yes?

Lily:  Do you still have a security blanket?

Greta:  Yes, I do.

Lily:   Really?

Greta:   Well, I have the second generation security blanket.

Lily:   What’s that?

Greta:   My mom made a quilt when she was pregnant with me. It was homemade, and it was this beautiful quilt of a bunny. I slept with it every night and I carried it with me everywhere and it disintegrated. This was, like, five years ago. She had a new quilt made that was identical to the first quilt. So now as an adult, I have my original security blanket back.

Lily:  That’s so cool!

Greta:  It’s on my couch and I don’t think I’ll ever outgrow it. I am under it every time I watch TV. I have my security blanket around me.

Lily:   That’s so great! I have mine, too, but mine is completely still torn to shreds. It’s basically only got sentimental value now. It’s kind of like a tattered rag at this point that used to have a duck on it. You know?

Greta:   It’s so funny. It seems like kids just have this compulsion to have one thing that they attach all of this sentiment and connection to. I don’t know if I’ve ever known a kid who didn’t have something… either a stuffed animal or a blanket or something that they just carried around with them.

Lily:   Pacifier!

 

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Lily and Greta are remembering what it was like to have a security blanket. Greta’s was a quilt that she used so much that it disintegrated, so her mom made a new one for Greta five years ago.

Lily thinks it’s pretty cool that Greta still has a security blanket after all these years, especially since Greta uses it every day. Lily has hers, too, but it’s not in great condition.

What kind of security blanket did you have when you were a kid? Do you still have it? Why do you think children need security blankets?

 

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ryusia98

South Korea

I don’t have security blanket. 


In addition, I think children need their security blackets because when they have it they feel comfortable.

12:56 PM May 24 2013 |

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julito

Argentina

I am posting an article that I have extracted from  LiveScience- Even grown-ups need security blankets.


For me,  my object was a “grandpa” doll I cherished and slept with throughout childhood.It  remainded me of my gran dads ( “both of them,actually). At some point, it found its way into the attic and I lost the emotional connection with the doll.When it resurfaced a few years ago, I looked at it fondly,but not with the same strong attachment I knew I once shared for it.

11:30 AM May 24 2013 |

elizabethzarchi

Myanmar

I  didn’t   have   security  blanket. As   far   as   I   know,  the  security  blanket  is  warm  and  safe  for  babies.

10:45 AM May 24 2013 |

naira71

naira71

Azerbaijan

I have never had a security blanket .may be I had but dont remember ,but My little daughter has a little bear and she sleeps with it  every day .I think kids need such security blankets to feel themselves  protected when mom is not near.

10:24 AM May 24 2013 |

houstonboo

Hong Kong

I didn’t have a security blanket in my childhood. And I think its not a neccessity to children, who would still fall asleep if they were tired anyway. However, I am considering making a security blanket to my little daughter who are now 3 months old, which could strengthening her childhood memory with me, ha .

10:10 AM May 24 2013 |

yamapshan

China

When I was a child,I didn’t own a security blanket.That’s why when I see some children cann’t fall asleep without the security blanket which shocked me.

08:45 AM May 24 2013 |

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kenlin16

Taiwan

As I can remember, I don’t particullay have a security blanket with which  I grew .Life is too busy to have  so mcuh  sentimental moment.

04:35 AM May 24 2013 |

kathy8013

kathy8013

China

In my memory,it seems that i have no security blanket when i was a child.But nowdays,most of the children have the Security Blankets,such us bear doll,barbie doll,dog doll,even one child has more than these kinds of security blankets.it seems like that ,the security baankets play a friends role in their life.

03:20 AM May 24 2013 |

DAMAVAND

DAMAVAND

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

My little brother had a pillow as security blanket, but not for his secutity, it was very safe for his stuff:D he hid every valuable things he found under it! and when we lost something, for sure the first place to search was there :D I had  a security blanket and pillow too, which i’ve always liked very much to fall asleep more easily and soon, even then i got married, wanted to have them in my home, but it wasn’t possible :D :D 

01:46 AM May 24 2013 |

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