MY son is 16 months how do you take the pacifier away?

Question

Should I just cold turkey it or is there an easier way.

Answer 1

Yes..If you want him not to have it take it away ( cold turkey ) with-in only a few days he wont even remember!! I did that with my 4th child who liked it way to much!! She is 6 now I know she still would have it if I had waited for her to get rid of it on her own!!!

Answer 2

I took my son's pacifier away cold turkey. He was throwing a fit one night (he was 1 yrs old) and took the pacifier out and was ready to throw it at me, so I told him that if he threw it he would never see it again. Well he threw it, and while he wasn't looking I snatched it up and threw it in the trash. The next morning when I took him out of the crib he searched for it..lol. Tried crawling under the crib and just looked everywhere. He cried for it for a day and that was that.

Answer 3

Here's one that I used with my niece. I told here that if she gave up the pacifier I would take her out and get her a some new clothes. She responded to the idea by spitting the pacifier in my hand that very second. Give him an alternative growing up behavior and then follow through with some kind of compensation for learning that behavior.

Answer 4

With our son we eventually threw them away one at a time. He got down to his last pacifier and lost it. He looked for it and asked for it a couple of days but that was it. After that he was done with the pacifiers.
he was around 2 1/2 at that time.

Answer 5

take it away now cold turkey. It will only get harder if you wait. My daughter is 4 and I just got it away from her about a month ago. I was sick of it and it was so hard. It will only be rough for a week or so.

Answer 6

I tried everything with my daughter! I cut the tip off (which made her not want it, but it made for long nights!), I tried to bribe her with "big girl" things. None of it worked until one day she threw it in the toilet and I flushed it. I think that watching it actually go away made her think it was actually gone. Throwing it away she knew she could just get it out of the trash. After watching it go down (we lucked out, it did go down), she just whimpered a few minutes, but never asked for it again. I wouldn't recommend flushing without a plunger nearby!

There's also a book I think is called "binky land" that you can play with kids and it tells them that in the end all binky's go to binky land. It's probably best with older kids though.

Answer 7

The child does not "need" the pacifier. Buy a "graduation" gift like a comfy blanket or book, throw the pacifier away or allow him to do it and in a week he will forget it ever existed as long as you don't mention it.

Answer 8

We told my niece that we had to give it to a new baby (my friend was having a baby). That because she was getting older, she should let the baby have the pacifier so it wouldn't cry, etc.
And then we trew it out. She wasn't quite 2 years old when we did that, but she did have a strong grasp of language.

Answer 9

My son is 22 months. We have him down to nap time and bed time only. I have a little Tupperware type container that we keep it in. After he wakes up we ceremoniously let him put it in the container and put it up until bedtime again. We will take away bedtime next then naptime last. (he has a harder time falling asleep at naptime)

Answer 10

Let him keep it untill he is ready to throw it out. I didn't make a big deal about it and my daughters bit off the end and threw it out of the crib at 17 months and never wanted it again. Why pressure the kid ?