The Science Behind Our Dream Blankets™

Frankie Dean's Dream Blankets are designed with your baby's development in mind. As healthcare professionals, we realized the impact a lovey can have on a child's well-being and development. Not only does a lovey help give security to a child, but it can also help foster independence and security. Security blankets can help ease your child's anxiety in new situations and create self-worth and awareness while overall inviting emotional wellness.

With this in mind, we wanted to add more to the development of their blankets. Black and white patterns help with the development of a baby's brain through adequate stimulation. Babies love to look at high-contrast patterns that attract their attention and focus. Black and white patterns can also support the development of sight and cognitive skills. This is why Frankie Dean's Dream Blankets have these specific designs, so your child can be stimulated by the highly contrasted shapes to attract attention and focus.

All Frankie Dean's blankets come with a children's board book to encourage reading to your children as often as possible. When babies are as young as 4 months old, reading together increases the chances that parents continue reading to babies as they get older. Beginning early is essential because the roots of language develop in a baby's brain even before they can talk! The more words your baby hears over time, the more words he learns. Reading gives kids time for physical closeness with parents, which serves as a sort of emotional security check-in. Bedtime reading also provides a point of focus and distraction, away from the day's activities and frustrations. It allows the body's fatigue to take over and bring the child closer to sleep. Even in young babies, this point of focus helps them filter out the stimulating world around them and help them relax.