[Life Back West] March 2011 – “Flatopup”

Our 8 1/2 year old son Traylor seems finally settled on a transitional object.

The Peanuts’ cartoon character Linus has his omnipresent blanket; my little big guy has Flatopup.

Flatopup took hold after a number of other alternatives were considered and then discarded. When Traylor was in preschool my spouse and I were convinced that his friend Emma – another child of a non traditional (single mom) and adoptive family – was his transitional object, the enduring item in his preschool life that enabled him to go through any number of other changes with the sense of a constant at this side.… Read the rest