How do i take my sons dummy away?

Question

My son is three and its about time he stopped using hiis dummy, whats the best way?

Answer 1

make a fun issue out of it, i.e. put it under his pillow or hang it on a tree in the garden for the dummy fairys to find. replace dummy with a treat such as a book or something more grown up. then at bedtime read the book to baby before bed, the magical idea of fairy's works a treat with little imaginations x

Answer 2

The way I did it was to tell mine that from now we only have dummies at in bed, when they get up in the morning they leave them in bed, and gave lots of praise for doing without. Once they got used to that, I said that not to have them at night in bed, by saying Mummy will have your dummies tonight and see if you go without them, I then tried to make them really tired to make it easier, if they found it too hard, I said ok lets try tomorrow night. I also said if they could go without for a week they would get a treat.

I did this with both of mine and it did work. Other people say give them to the fairy dummy, dog ate them, throw them away, give them to Father Christmas etc but every child its different. Some even say that if other children found out they still have dummies they would laugh. You know your child best. Good luck

Answer 3

Yep all the advice so far
I know a little boy who left his out for Santa Claus on the fireplace
next day santa had left him a letter saying how grateful he was for the dummy and how grown up he would be now
the child had no problem going to sleep without it
if you do have problems just change sometihing before his normal bedtime routine an extra story "Just because he gave up the dummy" or something. Good luck.

Answer 4

My son was about the same age when I tried to take his dummy away. Christmas is coming up, so tell him that he can swap his dummy with father xmas for all his presents, and his dummy will be given to a new baby.

Answer 5

We told our son Antony when he was around 3½ that dummy's wasn't allowed when you're 4. And thought nothing more of it, he was only using it of a night when he was tired.

Then on his 4th birthday he came to me first thing in the morning and gave me his dummy/pacifier.

I felt guilty as it was his birthday, but he never asked for it back or seemed bothered about it. I guess the pressies helped.

You could try something similiar at christmas.

Answer 6

My daughter gave me hers one day and said - "don't like this anymore, for babies" She was 18 months old at the time, never had one since. We were lucky though - we'd been wondering when to get rid of it and she solved the problem herself. I think the suggestions above are good (apart from the smacking one!) but we had settled on just letting her go to sleep with one in, then as soon as it fell out taking it away - never to be seen again. Explaining to her that the dummy fairy had taken it for the poor children in Africa.

Answer 7

Throw them all away - don't put them somewhere different in the house or you will give in and give them to him. I told my daughter than the "dummy fairy" was coming to take them away to give them to the new babies who needed them more then she did. She took it so well and I thought it was going to be a nightmare. She now hugs her teddy as her comforter and he has to come everywhere instead which is preferable to the dummy as the dentist said it could affect her teeth.

Answer 8

What i have done with my 19 month old is slowly take it away in the day and then only give it to her when she is ready for a sleep. This seems to be working because she doesn't have it in the day any more and if she asks for it i change the subject and get her doing some thing else

Answer 9

My son has been off his pasci because of the fact that he replaced into 11 months previous. you in all probability ought to have weaned him off of it until now the different infant replaced into born so as that he does no longer % one anymore. yet no time for regrets now could be there. Hm. the final element you're able to do is cut back him off chilly turkey because of the fact that he can comprehend issues and communicate, tell him he lost it interior the save. it relatively is gonna be a coarse first few days in spite of the undeniable fact that it desires to be finished in case you % it to be finished. If he knows he lost it and its no longer coming lower back he gets over it in some days. in basic terms remind him that his brothers dummy isn't for him , & he lost his so he can no longer get yet another one..

Answer 10

i found that if you snip the end off the dummy when your son looks at it say that he is a big boy etc and get him to throw them in the bin it worked for my two children