Weaning from pacifier by having your child "give" to Mickey?

[mousetravel]

I would try to wean him before your trip. Maybe you could build him up everyday by saying something like:
"Let's show Mickey you're a big boy!"
"Mickey will be very proud to see you don't have paci anymore."

Or make him a "no paci" chart. Make a calendar with some stickers-disney themed-and each day he goes without it, reward him with letting him place a sticker on the calendar. And let this be your countdown calendar also.

 

[okeydokey]

We cut off the tip of the paci a tiny bit so it didn't feel the same to ds. Every few days we cut off a bit more until it was a nub. We told him it was broken. Worked like a charm. He only used it at night anyway.

 

[jnzimm]

While the Doc meant well, I can't believe that is such a great idea. Does Doc have any kids? We relieved our daughter of hers a little at a time, cutting the end off a little at a time until she figured out it was worthless and quit wanting it.

 

[jeepgirl30]

I did not read through all but after the first page I'm in my own camp here and say go for it!!!

My DS was a major addict to the "binky". I cut the ends off them, poked holes in them, everything. As a lil baby he had 3 in his crib at all times. As he grew I tried to have it only in his bed but that was a huge fight. My DD thought he looked so cute with it in she'd go find more for him!

One 4th of July we were watching fireworks. When we pulled out he freaked because he could not find the binky. I think he was around 2.5. Yea bad mom!

Well I told him the fireworks blew it up because he was a big boy now. Guess what? Totally worked!!! Still to this day (he'll be 6 soon) he says "remember when the fireworks blew up my binkies?" but very matter of factly. He loves fireworks to this day and has never been upset about it.

With DD we did sort of the same thing with giving her bottles to the Easter Bunny.

Good luck!!!

 

[happymommy]

I would never do that. Your child will associate Disney with "sad" feelings.

Here's what we did:

Take a pair of scissors & cut a big slit in each paci. My DS put them in his mouth, went "blech!", realized they were no good anymore, & threw them on the carpet. Honestly! That was the end of them.

When my DS was one (maybe a little older) I did that - cut the tip off all of them. Then they just don't work anymore!

Worked like a charm!

DD never took one (nursed until she weaned herself, I was sad when she did that, at about 14 months).

Try that!

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I'm with those thinking it's a bad idea to bring an unsuspecting mouse into the equation, lol. Esp if you're DIsney lovers and expect your child to associate Mickey with happy things.

My friend came up with this plan whereby she told her son that the squirrel took his last paci. He's nearly 12 now and still hates squirrels, lol.

 

[ilovemyjj]

hey..anything is possible, my sis gave her bottles to the reindeer at santa's workshop!! She never asked for one after that day! So, to me i see it as a good idea..but if you do do it..dont give it back..stick with it!!! It usually takes a good 2 or 3 days till they stop asking for it back. So, they may scream for a while, especially at bed time. Try giving the child something else to soothe them. Cause ya gotta remmeber, its like an addiction. Imagine you just cut off from something cold turkey! SO, replace it with something , like a stuffed toy or a nice sippy cup or straw cup, or something!
I have 3 kids..and it wasn't fun, but they are all alive and well!!

 

[christa112]

I actually was going to do this too. But I chickened out when we were down there. It was not that I was worried we were going make DD scared or dislike Mickey because honestly, that thought never crossed my mind, but we were worried she would scream and cry all night without it and figured well better to get sleep and our neighbors get sleep that not.

I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. But that is just me.

We ended up taking our dd binks away and my MIL told her that the spiders took them LOL. We had just watched Charlotte's Web and we ran with it, we told her Charlotte's babies needed the binkys. LOL (I know, it sounds so stupid, but it worked!!!!)

 

[dis2cruise]

this worked for us:

it was spring time
and we saw a bird nest. so I had an idea

my dd was looking for her "NUK" and couldn't find them i told her "look up in the tree
there is a bird nest and the baby birdies need them because they are making too much noise" she bought it and was fine without them because she was happy to give the baby birds her nuks. the funny part about the whole story is we kept finding lost pacifiers all over the house and my dd wanted to throw them up into the tree

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Has anyone done this? Has it worked?

What are your thoughts?


I was planning on trying to wean our 2 yr old son from it while we were there because he'll be so busy and distracted and then I came up with the idea of when he meets Mickey if I tell him that it is time to give it to Mickey and see what he does. And then if he does hand it over and then asks for it later I can just keep reminding him that he gave it to Mickey and he is a big boy now.

My questions are: Can the characters hear well? Can I sneak up to Mickey first and tell him my plan so he knows to take the pacifier and then I can just slip it out of his hand when my son isn't looking? If my son does it ok but then freaks out later about it, do you think he'll have hard feelings towards Mickey? (I know that seems silly but it's the last thing I want!)

What do you think??

sorry first, I'm at work and can't read thru all 4 pages but when ds8 was 2 I tried to ask him to give his binkies to Santa so he can give them to babies all over who need one. He started to hate Santa and everything Christmas. At first I couldn't understand why til he finally broke down crying that Santa was going to take his binky. We finally did it cold turkey when I took about 3 days off from work and could spend extra time with him, help console him more at night and not worry as much if we all didn't get a good night's sleep.

I would def. not do this over vacation or in any strange place (even a Disney hotel is strange place to a 2 y.o.) Binkies are comfort which is especially helpful when kids aren't in their own bed.

We had a rough few nights but gradually got better.
good luck!!