Binkys and Build a Bear

[MaidMarian]

Just had to share something I heard at Build a Bear today. A Grandmother had brought her little grandson into the store to stuff a dog and they were going to put his binky in it. That way he could still carry it around with him and find comfort. I thought it was a brilliant idea.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Just had to share something I heard at Build a Bear today. A Grandmother had brought her little grandson into the store to stuff a dog and they were going to put his binky in it. That way he could still carry it around with him and find comfort. I thought it was a brilliant idea.

We had my DD "pay" for her Build A Bear with her Binky when she was 2. Never asked for it again.

 

[Jenny-momof3]

Very sweet idea...until said child tries to cut open that bear to get binky out in the wee hours of the morning.... not that we have any experience with that.

 

[poohfriend77]

Cute idea! My friend talked her DD2 into bringing all her "nuk-nuks" to give to my second daughter when she was born, since they are for babies, not big girls. I knew she was doing it, but I guess I didn't explain it to my husband. When she left, he looked at the pile of used, chewed-up pacifiers and said, "We're not really going to use those, are we?"

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Very sweet idea...until said child tries to cut open that bear to get binky out in the wee hours of the morning.... not that we have any experience with that.

This is exactly why we did the payment method!!!

 

[tublady]

We did this with our DD when she was almost 3. She was a binky fiend - she slept with one in her month and one in each hand The binky went with us and into her bear and she never used another one. She still sleeps with her bear from time to time and she is now 8, it is the bear she takes to sleepovers. Thank goodness she never thought about cutting it out!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Cute idea! My friend talked her DD2 into bringing all her "nuk-nuks" to give to my second daughter when she was born, since they are for babies, not big girls. I knew she was doing it, but I guess I didn't explain it to my husband. When she left, he looked at the pile of used, chewed-up pacifiers and said, "We're not really going to use those, are we?"

Oh that is just too funny!!!

We had no issue with binkies, all our kids just stopped using them all at under a year. But bottles... our oldest was horrible. I tried so many times to break her of them. Well we moved and I told her I had accidently left them all at the old apartment, but we could do OK without them. And she did, she was fine. I was so thrilled until a few days later we went back to scrub the apartment and she went room to room opening doors and crying out "ba-ba!!! BA-BA!!!" Broke my heart. Not enough to give them back to her, but still it did break my heart.

Any idea that works is a good idea andI think the BAB idea is a great one.

 

[dsneybride]

That is a very cute idea! Too bad my dd sucks her thumb!! Dont think I could pull that one off!!

 

[bookgirl]

When my nephews were turning 3 (or was it four yikes may have been four) I told them they could send all thier binkies to binky land and that they would send them back a toy.

We put them in a envelope, there were only three left between the two of them and mailed them. A few days later I left two stuffed animals on thier porch. LOL

One of them really had all but given up the binky, the other one would still have it today at 10 1/2 and tells me that he should have been allowed to keep it. He was the one who was the cutest about it, talked about, loved it, but holy moley the child talked around the thing (and he's the one with staight teeth LOL). We really had them down to sleeping and car rides and the occasional comfort after getting hurt. They (mostly the one) would get out of the car come up to me put the binky in my pocket do whatever and as soon as we were back in the car he wanted it back. Then when we got home he'd give it back to me to put in the cabinet till bedtime.

By the time I concinced his parents that they really were too old for them, the one nephew was so addicted that for the next three years every shirt he owned had holes around the neck from him pulling up the collar and chewing on it.

I never thought about the build a bear but DN really was the type of child who would have torn the thing apart in the middle of the night to get to it.

 

[Channyn]

Very sweet idea...until said child tries to cut open that bear to get binky out in the wee hours of the morning.... not that we have any experience with that.

I can totally seeing US having to cut the bear open to get the soother out at 4am because our daughter is still screaming for her soother!

 

[mamaLori05]

We did that when dd was 2. We had her "buy" her bear with her nookies, and then she got to put her favorite one inside the bear. She thought it was the COOLEST thing ever.....until we got home and it was time for nap. Then she wanted NOTHING to do with that bear!!! We dealt with many tears, but didn't give it back or buy any more nookies. Now (at 4) she loves her "Nookie" bear. (she named her bear Nookie).

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I can totally seeing US having to cut the bear open to get the soother out at 4am because our daughter is still screaming for her soother!

That's why we did the "pay" method. (They sneak them back to you if it goes horribly wrong!)