Need help getting rid of pacifier for 2 year old

[dvcfamily41801]

We gave ours to Mickey Mouse. It was May, 2002 and our son was 2 1/2.

We talked about it for quite sometime that we were going to give it to Mickey Mouse when we went to WDW. My DH did not think it would work at all, and honestly, I did not have that high of hopes either, but I made sure I had character meals with Mickey every day of our trip! We went to Chef Mickey's our first night for dinner and I told our server what we would be doing. She asked what was supposed to happen after he gave it to him. I said he could slide it under the table back to me, or throw it out or whatever. I have the perfect picture of Matt putting his binky in Mickey's big white glove and then he gave it back to me under the table. He hesitated giving it to him for a quick second, and then that was it. I still have it in a plastic bag in my dresser drawer. Was SO surprised that it worked and he did not ask for it ONCE after that. I was so worried about the flight home and his ears, but we had no problems.

We had tried so many times before that just trying cold turkey but it was a NIGHTMARE. We thought we would never get him to give it up, but this was the best idea and I proudly share it with anyone who asks for suggestions on how to break the binky habit....just gotta go to Walt Disney World!

 

[preshi]

I haven't done this, but I heard of people leaving the pacifers for the paci fairy.

They have the child tie the paci to a string and hang it in a tree for the paci fairy to give to the new babies. When they wake up in the morning, they go to the tree to find a small thank you gift from the fairy.

Awwww that made me tear up! I love it! I think I may have to do with with DS2's binkies.

 

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

I don't have kids, all I know is what my aunt and uncle did for my 3 cousins (now 3, 5, 6). When the appropriate year came, she had them leave them for the Easter Bunny or Santa (depending on which time of year best fit). None of them had problems giving it up to someone who gave them treats!

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

I just threw it away one day.

It was such a hassle everytime we went somewhere to have that stupid binkie. Then if we lost it or couldn't find it, the world was caving in.

Right before DD's 2nd birthday, we came back from a trip and DH couldn't find the pacifier, when putting her to bed. I wasn't home. He told DD I had it and she had to go to bed. She did but the next morning asked for it. I told her, we lost it and she suprisingly was OK with it.

She's asked for it a couple times since then especially when she seen kids her age with them. I tell her they are for babies and she's a big girl and she's OK with that.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

I don't have kids, all I know is what my aunt and uncle did for my 3 cousins (now 3, 5, 6). When the appropriate year came, she had them leave them for the Easter Bunny or Santa (depending on which time of year best fit). None of them had problems giving it up to someone who gave them treats!

That's what we did.
DD #1 -Santa Claus
DD #2- Easter Bunny

 

[Frantasmic]

When they are a little older and they can understand the concept of "broke," we cut a small hole in the end of them (they are sturdy and won't shred, etc.) and they didn't work anymore.

We kept it around for a bit to let them get the concept of it being "broke" and then threw it away.

Remember, it was broke.

they got it.

 

[NikiM20]

No advice just wanted to say my 18 month old loves his thumb and I can't take that away. He has blisters on his thumb from sucking it all the time. I hope he outgrows it by Prek!

DD is just now quitting sucking her thumb. It has been 2 weeks. She is 7

 

[MushyMushy]

I can't for the life of me remember what I did with DD and now it's going to bother me all day until I do remember!

For DS, I had gone to spend the night with a friend without him and my mother took the binky away and told DS that the Easter bunny took it because he needed it. At first I was appalled that she would tell him that, but it worked and he didn't fuss a bit.

I really love the binky fairy ideas, though. That's great!

 

[MushyMushy]

DD is just now quitting sucking her thumb. It has been 2 weeks. She is 7

I was almost 10 when I quit.

 

[aprilgail2]

My daughter was way old when she stopped using it at night time (never during the day), close to 3! She went for her yearly pediatric dental appt and he looked at her teeth compared to the year before and he said "she uses a pacifier doesn't she"...they measure how far they stick out and the angle was much more than the year before, he said she had to stop using it and they may fall back down to where they belonged if she didn't wait to long to stop using them. That night she knew the dentist said no more pacifier and she had to stop using it. Her teeth fell back to the angle they shole be at somewhat but she will still need braces.

 

[minnieandmickeymouse]

I love the way my DH took away the pacifier. My DS was 3, and I was taking my 7 year old to disney, just me and him. So when DH took us to the airport, to see us off, he had our ds age 3 with him. He told him the his pacifier when bye, bye with us on the plane!!
I guess ds 3 did cry some that first night.

 

[travlnman1]

I know, I should have gotten rid of it long ago, but that opportunity has passed. Now I need to figure out how to help my 2 yo DD get rid of her pacifier. Any suggestions? She doesnt have it all the time, definitely when she sleeps, usually in the car, sometimes, just when shes tired or for comfort. She does have a blankie and a teddy as well, for other 'comfort' items. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Wow, OK..I guess I'm the only one from the other camp.
My initial thought is she's only 2!! She's still so young!! She won't suck her pacifier when she's 6, 7, or 8...or whatever. There will be a time when SHE is ready to give them up. I let my kids have their "passy" until they were ready to give them up which usually occured when they were ready for pre-school. My only rule was...the passy stays in your bed. If you want to suck your passy, you go to your room and suck your passy. They quickly learned that there was more fun happening outside of their room and seldom went in for a suck, but they had them for bedtime if needed.

No harm. No tears. No cold turkey. (which is torture for the parents as well as the kids)

I had 3 kids. All sucked pacifiers.

 

[SamIAm21]

I agree with the "why take it away so soon" camp. My dentist told me that DD should give it up by age four because that's when the permanent teeth are forming above the baby teeth. She only used it to sleep, but at her fourth year dental visit, the dentist said it was time. I'm not questioning you, just wondering if it's imperative to do so now? If the answer is yes, I'd use that binky fairy idea.

If I had to do it all over again, I would definitely use the binky fairy idea with the tree and the gift afterward. That's such a magical way to make a hard choice!

 

[DawnCt1]

The same way that my mother got rid of my bottle. She took me over to a neighbor to visit her new calf and pretended to feed the calf from my bottle. She then left the bottle in the pen. I would visit a petting zoo and do the same thing. You can pretend to hold it and then say the little goat took it and needed it more. I loved the story for years. It was easier to part with since a little baby calf needed it.

 

[BelleBoo&AmisMum]

DS spit his across the room at 3 months and called it done, but he nursed for a VERY long time.

DD we took away the binky at 3 years, on new years eve we told her she was a big girl now and it was time to start the new year binky free. She was ok with that and hasn't looked back. She will steal her sisters from time to time for a quick drive-by chomp on the binky and she gets this blissed out relaxed look on her face, cracks me up every time. She had binkies in hiding though - a lot of them. In the toy box, in the cupboards, under her bed, in the drawers in the bathroom! We have a huge cup full of them from her still. We tried the cutting the binky thing, she didn't care, as long as there was enough for her to grip with her teeth she was good. Her teeth are fine BTW.

DD #2 is 2 and still has a binky. I don't see it going away just yet. She has a major case of 2 year old OCD and I'm not about to mess with it!

 

[msdznyduck]

DD is just now quitting sucking her thumb. It has been 2 weeks. She is 7

I have a friend whose DD was 15, and still sucking her thumb when she slept, or even watching television at night.
She seemed like a really nice, well adjusted girl, just liked to suck her thumb. I think she finally did stop when she went off to college.

 

[Cindyluwho]

Well, here's our binky story. We did the old "hole in the binky" trick when our DD was around 14 months old. It was a rough week, but it worked. But then our world was turned upside down. She woke up in the middle of the night with a 105.7 fever and we rushed her to the hospital. They never did find out what was wrong, they think it may have been bacterimia (sp?) or cat scratch fever. She was in the hospital for 5 days and almost died. During that time, we brought her a binky to help ease her discomfort. (darnit, now I"m tearing up ). Anyway, she recovered. And she had the darned/blessed binky until she was probably 4 or so. The thing is IT DIDN'T MATTER ANYMORE!! There was no way I was going to get upset by that little thing. All I cared about was that my daughter was healthy and happy. She loved the binky, so what!?! She's now 12 and I am thankful every day for her. The binky was just a blip on the radar.