RE: OT

[Guest guest]

Margaret, my daughter was about 2 years and 5 months when we talked her into giving up her pacifier. She had them hidden all over the place. We had been talking to her about how big girls didn't need pacifiers anymore, and on Mother's Day while I was cooking dinner, she kept coming into the kitchen and dropped one after another in the trash. I bet she had 15 or so. It was entirely her decision. If I had taken the pacifier away from her, I woul d have never found all her hiding places! Maybe you can try the "big boy" angle. Rewards work better than telling Santa is going to take it.

HTH,

Donna N

Colorado

OT

Does anyone have any tried and true ways to break a 3 year old of a pacifier???????????????????? We told him santa is going to take it but I don't want the kid to hate santa!

Margaret,mom to the monsters

[Guest guest]

That worked for my cousin's baby, she thought Santa thought she was

too big for it. She likes thinking she's a big girl!!

> BlankDoes anyone have any tried and true ways to break a 3 year old

of a pacifier???????????????????? We told him santa is going to take

it but I don't want the kid to hate santa!

> Margaret,

> mom to the monsters

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have any tried and true ways to break a 3 year old of a pacifier???????????????????? We told him santa is going to take it but I don't want the kid to hate santa!

Margaret,mom to the monsters

LOL I couldn't help but laugh at that. I have a few suggestions worked with bottles with mine. One you can see if you can talk him into throwing it in the garbage and then him watch you take the garbage out so he KNOWS it's gone. OR have him throw it out the window of the moving car. Then he knows it went bye bye. If that doesn't work put something on it that will make it taste bad. Like Alum, vinegar, if worse comes to worse a tiny dot of cyanne pepper. Mine loved the cyanne so that backfired on me. But it's worth a try. Soak it in Jalopino juice. They have some stuff to paint on a child thumb to stop thumb sucking you can paint it onto the paci..

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[Guest guest]

Hi there,

Oh yes, yes, yes, I've done it many a time. All 3 of my kids were very attached to "binky" It was about 3 years old that we started the weaning process. I don't know about your child, but my kids had many "binky's". As we lost them we did not replace them. We finally got down to one binky and we had been talking about when that binky got lost we couldn't get any more. A child only gets so many binky's. Well, they all came thru the ordeal without any permanent handicaps. Only one needed braces because she has a mouth just like me. Too many teeth!

By the way, Mommy kind of lost most of those binky's. I'm so forgetful!

Even if it does take some time to break the binky habbit, I've never seen a kid go off to college with their blanky's and binky's. And I really thought my last child would!!

Kathleen in NC