what is a good age for a boy to seperate from his pacifier and blankie?

Answer 1

There is no correct answer to this. You will know when the right time is. What you can do is wean your child off during the day, and gradually go to naps, and finally night time.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

I have been told definately by age 3 no pacifier. as for a blankie if he keeps it in his bed and doesn't carry it around, then as long as he likes.


however, my son is only 2 and half and he is suffering from an open bite as a result of a pacifier. he needed to quit a long time ago but it is harder now that he has an emotional attachment to it.

Answer 3

I think that a pacifier should go at 2 years of age. Blankie is not going to hurt them. I would not let him take the blankie out of the house. My boys had their blankies along time. Of course only at bedtime. They grew out of wanting them.

Answer 4

My kids gave their binkys up between 5 and 7 months. They only took while they needed the sucking action. Then figured out they weren't getting anything out of it.
With some it's security. As with the blankie. one of my granddaughters has her favorite "night, night" (blankie) she's 3. I've noticed she doesn't require it as much, and has been letting her baby brother use it!
One of my granddaughters was difficult to bottle break. She was 3.5 yrs. We finally put some golden seal root extract on the nipple. (I happened to have some, the stuff is really bitter tasting) It worked! And I'm sure it would work with the binky.
You can get the golden seal root extract from an herbalist, and I have seen it on the shelf at Wal-mart. It only takes a few drops and rub it all over the nipple. It worked and she never asked for it again!

Answer 5

let him keep the blankie, nothing wrong with that, but I would break him from the pacifier otherwise you will have a 4 year old who throws fits in public for a binky. I never gave my daughter a pacifier when she was a baby and she never needed it, my mother never gave my sisters and I a pacifier and all 3 of us never needed it either. I am 38 weeks pregnant and I will not be giving this baby one either.

Answer 6

I would follow the recomended age of 12-18 months on the pacifier so his teeth don't get messed up, but the blankie doesn't hurt anything. If it bothers you, make him leave it in his bed when you leave the house but personally, I wouldn't.

Answer 7

I took mine off of the pacifier at 11 mons. I started by only letting him have it at naps and bed time and then I took it away completely. He still has his blankie but only at home.

Answer 8

I'm a grandmother of 5..Doc told me there was no real need a child should have a pacifer after the age of one. The need and instinct to suck has reduced greatly if not completely. Let him hang on to "blankie" for awhile unless he's startin' school.

Answer 9

I don't think children need a pacifier after 12 months old. The longer you wait, the harder it is. I never took my kids blankets away. Its a security thing, why make them feel insecure. Mine all gave up the blankets at different ages. My only rule was that it stayed in their beds. They were not allowed to walk around with it. They were okay with that.

Answer 10

No later than age two. I hate to see a child that can walk and talk that has a pacifier in the mouth. That is just wrong.