Hi my son is almost 2 and iam trying to get him to brake his pacifer addictiondoes anyone have any good tips?

Answer 1

In my attempt to break my daughter (when she was small, about 2 years old) from her pacifier (aka, binkie) I opted for the cold turkey treatment. I hid her pacifier in a secure location.

By the afternoon hours I went to check on sweety pie to see how she was doing. She was laid up on her bed, wearing sunglasses, listening to some blues on the radio, puffing on straw, grunting out something that vaguely sounded like.., "whoa.., dis sucks, maaan".

I gave her back her binkie and all was right again.
Okay - that never happened, not in my wildest nightmares (thank God).., just thought you could use a smile. You seemed to be getting all the good tips anyone could give from many nice folks, so I opted for some humor - forgive me my moment of weakness.

Answer 2

I saw this really cute thing on America's Funniest Home videos:

They got a bunch of helium balloons (about 12) and tied the pacifier to them. The mom treated it like a tooth that had fallen out and said that it was time to send the pacifier to the Pacifier Fairy. I'm guessing that the little guy who sent his pacifier off to the clouds was rewarded with SOMETHING when he woke up the next day.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Here are a few possible solutions (I have done them all)

Snip the end of the pacifier...it isn't appealing that way.

My daughter gave hers up on easter. We put out a basket full of all her bottles and pacis for the easter bunnies babies and in turn the easter bunny brought her new sippy cups.

Cold turkey. This solution sucks (no pun intended) but if all else fails it works. You might suffer for a week or so but like I said, it works.

Answer 4

it sounds like my advice is the same as quite a few others. my son and daughter had binkies, probably longer than i should have let them, but i really dreaded the weaning process. with both i cut down to just bedtime and naptime and then made a promise to myself that when the last of them were either lost or worn out, i would not buy anymore. both of my kids knew where they were kept so when they would ask for one i would show them that they were gone and reassure them they would be okay without it. it didn't seem too long before they realized they were too big for binkies.

Answer 5

If you know someone who is having a baby, tell your son that he is big boy and the new baby will need soothers. Tell him it would be so nice of him to give the baby his soother. Give him awhile to warm up to the idea. But don't force him if he doesn't want to do it, or he could end up resenting the baby.

Or, you could leave it outside you door at night for the "Soother Fairy". Leave a little toy or something for hi in it's place.

But whatever you do, I would suggest actually removing all soothers from your house. If there are soothers in the house after you take them away, it will be easy for you to give in and give them back if he puts up a fuss.

Good luck and be tough!!

Answer 6

You can try to wean him down. First tell him it can only be used in the house. Then only at bedtime and naptime. Then only for bedtime. Then you might have the binky fairy come take the binkies and leave a present.

Just make sure to distract him so he doesn't think too much about the binky during the weaning.

Answer 7

I gave my son the choice of the paci. or a lollipop he got from the bank. He wanted the lollipop so I told him he had to throw the pac away. He did and come that night he wanted it. I reminded him that he threw it away for the lollipop. He cried for about a week but then he didn't ask anymore!

Answer 8

Good luck, My daughter had hers for 18 months and we snipped a small hole in the end as well. It took almost 24-36 hours and she never asked for it again!!! Every time she put it in her mouth she looked at it with disgust and threw it across the room. It worked wonders!!!

Answer 9

Them other methods sound nice, but honestly they probley wont work, With my children, I just took the bottles and pacifiers and threw them out. They cried for a couple days, but quicky forgot about them, I also had my sister and a friend do this and they said it really works. Out of sight, out of mind, children are easy to munipulate after a couple of days they wont even remember that they needed them.

Answer 10

Put restrictions on it. Remember this pacifier has become a habit and habits are hard to break.

I would only allow my kids to use it only when they were going to sleep. And slowly begin to ween him off. Be strong most likely he will cry for it resist the temptation to give in.