how to get rid of a pacifier?

Question

i want to use a game of some sort to do it

Answer 1

It depends on how old your child is, how mature and how often they use it whether a game is going to work. Working in a daycare, I have heard of burying them in the backyard, tying them to balloons and setting them free, "giving" it to the easter bunny or santa in exchange for presents or candy, passing it along to a younger child who doesnt have much. If you do something like this, you need to make sure that your child is into it, and understands that they are doing something good by giving it away...and if you are pacie dependent like so many parents are, then youre just going to have to wean them before you do anything fun. Start by limiting it to certain times of the day, like in the car, during nap, and at night. Take one time away every couple weeks and then do the big give away or send off...you dont want to cause yourself a huge headache and your child major anxiety just because you wanted to make it fun and do it your way . Good luck!!

Answer 2

We decided it was time for our son to give up his pacifier when he was about 1 1/2.
For about 3 weeks we told our son that his pacifier was the last one he was going to get and that when it broke, we would be throwing it in the garbage.

Then, one night, while he was sleeping, I cut the tip off, put it back together and left it where he would find it.
Well he found it and was upset but because we'd talked about it he knew he had to throw it out. He put it in the garbage and was "rewarded" with a new cup - a big boy cup!!
(He practiced drinking from it in the bath tub!).

He asked for it over the next few weeks but it got to be less and less. And he knew exactly what had happened, where it was and why. Sometimes games help kids learn and understand but sometimes we have to be straight forward with them.

Good luck.

Answer 3

A game isnt such a good idea with this sort of a thing... kids are most of the time very emotionaly attached to their pacifier... find something they like alot, such as a blankie, a favorite snack or a stuffed animal, then when you take their pacifier away, substitute it with a "reward".

Answer 4

I am now 14, but when I was younger my mom had a really hard time getting me to get rid of my pacifier. I had a really soft heart for things, so my mom told me that there were little kids, littler than me who needed a paci and couldn't get one. It was almost easter so she told me the easter bunny would take it to the other little kids, I totally fell for it. Good Luck!

Answer 5

Same way you do a bottle. Let the kid buy a toy with it at the department store (talk to the saleswomen first!). Just have your child pick out their own toy and hand their pacifier (s) over to the clerk to pay for it, before you pay for your own stuff of course. Worked on my husband when he was little and my kids.

Answer 6

how old is the child that can depend a lot on how your child reacts. all 3 of my children had pacifiers and it eventually just got to the point where I had to take them away out of sight out of mind. When they ask for it i just say i can't find them...

Answer 7

Unfortunally the only way is to just take it. There will be crying but they will get over it. Well, I guess there's another way. Put that thumb sucking liquid from wal-mart on it. Kids are supposed to hate the taste. Good luck

Answer 8

no games, tie it to ballons and "send them" to babies. Put them underneath her crib or bed and tell her that the pacifier fairy is going to take them to little babies that need them. Or just snip that pacifier gradually

Answer 9

My little one was 3, we simply cut the end off her soother! She looked at it, popped it in her mouth and said I don't like that, and that was the end of it. If that failed we were going to try the "soother fairy" she comes in the night(much like the tooth fairy) and takes the soother, but leaves a toy! We didn't need to, but it's always good to have a plan b!

Answer 10

I threw my daughter's pacifier away. She doesnt even notice it is gone.