Getting Rid of the Pacifier!! - Grand Forks,ND

When my daugher was about the same age, we just misplaced it. It never found it's way out of the garbage can. My sister-in-law tried several different ways with her first and the only thing that finally worked was making it dissappear. When I finally had kids of my own I tried to do what worked best for her.

Well I have 2 ideas that might work for you...
1. Play up the big boy thing! Big boys don't have these and after about 7 days of that have a BIG BOY party and have him throw them away. Get a bucket and get them all together, because you know that he is the only one that knows where they all are. That way he does the action and he can't be mad at you!!

2. With Easter coming have the Easter bunny take them all in exchange for a gift. Still have the big bucket and round them all up and in the morning he will see that there is a gift instead of the pacifier.

I won't lie it will be rought for a few nights, but in the end it will be so worth it!
Good luck

I would not make him go cold turkey. He is still little, I feel like the "big boy" technique is best left for older kids. Try dipping the paci in something icky- like they do with thumb suckers. I used a medicine dropper paci with my son, and it only took once. He never wanted another paci. Good luck and enjoy him while he is still little.
K.

I would just take it way. doing it half way, or "only at certain" times, still allows them to buy into the idea that they get it. Kids tend to see things in Black and white.

they get it or they don't get it. And to me, giving a partial paci is teaching them about grey areas and "even though we don't want you to have it, we'll still give you the idea of it" approach still keeps it in their mindset.

sure, going cold turkey might make them be rather vocal about it at first, but after a few days of not even having the visual piece available to think about they'll move on, find something else to take it's place. Besides, what does snipping the ends off really do? they can't even suck on it, so it's just going to make them mad, because now they have this thing they want and it won't work. And it still visually reminding them of what they want.

well what worked for my family was take it away completely, they don't like it much but it has proven itself effective. My two children were completely rid of theirs in a matter of 5 days. Just something to consider.

No easy way... You just take it away. You can explain that he is a "Big boy" now... but it is not going to be easy. It really only takes a few days of battling it out. All but one of my kids broke themselves at about 4 months, but my daughter didn't want to. I just stopped giving it to her, and though she cried for it a few times, ultimately, she gave up. She was about 7 months old I think. The older he gets the harder it will be. Good luck!

J.-

Hey!

I would just not give him anything. Just get rid of the pacifier all together. This worked for my son and I am trying to make it work for my daughter too, who is 20 months old and still on it. She uses it for sleeping mostly and when she wants to relax herself. I need to get her off of it soon too! Would be nice to get her off of it before she turns 2. I am going to use the cold turkey approach, by just not giving it to her. Wish us luck! :) It is a hard time to go through, but it will get better! Take care,

C.

i too am trying to get the pacifier away from my son who is 18 months old. it's like his best friend and it's heartbreaking just trying to slowly get it away from him. i'm slowly taking it away by only ltting him have it at bedtime and here in the next couple days i'm just going to take it away cold turkey. i'm thinking about having him throw them away or something like that. cold turkey seemed to work with the bottle so i am praying that it works with the paci too. so good luck to you!!

My daughter also only took the paci at nap time and at bed. We started telling her in the mornings that it had to stay in the bed for bedtime and then when she turned 18 months, we made it dissappear. A couple of nights later, she didn't even ask for it anymore.

I just want to say that all 3 of my kids used the pacifier and when the time came to get tehm off of it we just took them away (threw in the trash is more like it) so that they would not be found. All 3 of my kids were angry for about 2 days but after that, they were fine without it. As another mother put it, if you give it to them and then try to take it away it only makes them think if they cry long enough or loud enough you will give in and give it to them. As a mother we do not want to see our kids in pain or hear them cry, but if you are serious about getting rid of the pacifier then I would just go cold turkey on it. If you can't deal with them crying then maybe it isin't time to get rid of it.

Thankfully my daughter never took one but I have heard:

(1) If you know someone having a baby, you can have your son wrap the pacifiers up in a pretty package and "give them to the new baby because only babies need pacifiers" And please do warn the new mom in advance as my SIL did this for my niece and didn't warn me and I was like "huh, why are you giving us all her old pacifiers LOL". Incidentally, that DID work for my niece. After she gave the pacifies to my daughter, she never asked for one again.

(2) You could have them "fly" away. Get some balloons and tie them to the end of the balloons and then let your son release them outside and have him tell the pacifiers bye-bye.

(3) I have also heard snipping off a small bit of the end of the pacifier each day too - but it sounds like your son really doesn't like this method so maybe something else will work.

Good luck!!