If your toddler becomes attached to an item, make sure you have at least two of them. (10 would be better)
It sounds silly. Or at least if you don't have a kid, it sounds pretty silly. However, toddlers can't communicate very effectively yet and this is the age where they develop preferences. It's not a happy combination.
Big deal, I remember myself thinking before I was parent. How hard can it be?
plenty.
Everything is incalculably harder with a crying/whining/screaming toddler. You can't even walk away for minute! They've learned to walk. They follow now. *frowny face*
So, imagine your twisty red-faced screaming bundle of love refusing to cooperate unless he or she has item X. Trust me, in that situation, with a surprisingly strong and viciously flailing toddler, you look for item X. You look under couches, in cars, beneath furniture, and under beds despite being dressed for work in a skirt and knowing your ass is up in the air as you check under the bed one more time. Trust me on this, you look for it.
Bad news: item X could be anywhere including the trash, day care, or stolen by closet gnomes.
Good news: most things toddlers like are cheap. They really like brightly colored plastic. So if they have something that they really love and pitch tantrums over, do yourself a favor and get more than one.
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