my toddler is 2 1/2 and has a pacifier how do make fun way to get rid of with out using the pacifier fairy or cuting it
let me know
2007-09-02 03:14:12 · 10 answers · asked by josh z 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Take the toddler to a toy store and let him pick out a new toy to sleep with, like a teddy bear. Ask the woman at the cash register if he can "pay" with his pacifire and then you can pay after while he is not looking. ( its easier if you take someone else with you to entertain him/her while you do all this.) Toys R Us lets parents do this. The child has to give up his pacifire but he sees that he has a new toy to sleep with and comfort him. Keep one pacifire on hand just in case the night is truly miserable and you have to give it to him, but I would try really hard not to because then he has a new toy and his pacifier which totaly defeats the purpose of him giving it up. Use it as a last resort kind of a thing.
Another Idea I've heard of. Tell your toddler that babies need binkies. If you know someone who has a baby, let your toddler "give" the pacifier to the baby. (not put it in their mouth though) This way he feels like he did a nice thing for the baby, while he learns about caring for others. Because of his age, he might have a harder time with this way though because sharing is still difficult. get him excited about it by making a big deal about it the day before, and act really excited youself. Give him lots of encouragement and then lots of praise when he gives it up.
Good Luck! Hope this helps!
2007-09-02 03:34:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have two daughter who both had a pacifier, there is no fun way to get rid of it. We tried different methods, and honestly you just have to take it cold turkey and not cave. I ended up putting mine in the outside trash with no bag so I would not cave, my husband and I had both caved before that and it is unfair to the child. You will have a very cranky child for a week or 2 who will relentlessly ask for it but within two weeks it will be fine. Just keep telling them it is OK and giving them their favorite blanket or whatever.
Good luck and the longer you let them have it the harder it is to take it away. I took my oldest at 1 and my youngest at 3 and my youngest put up 10x the fight. But then again she fights me 10x more on everything LOL
2007-09-02 11:26:45 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Coffee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awww, why you hatin' on the binkie fairy??? LOL
Tell her that babies use pacifiers. Big girls play with (insert something she'd like to get here). Trade out the baby binkie for the big girl toy.
Tell her that babies use pacifiers, and get her to put hers in a box, bag or big envelope to donate to "the babies". Of course, you don't actually give it to "the babies", but a lot of toddlers like babies enough to be willing to do something like this. They praise her for being such a big girl.
love2jump makes a good point, about taking her to Toys R Us to "buy" a new big-girl toy with the pacifier, but I totally disagree with the suggestion of keeping one on hand "just in case." If you have it for "just in case", you'll most likely use it. Which COMPLETELY goes against what you're going for. Of course there will be particularly miserable times, but that doesn't mean you take a step backwards.
2007-09-02 10:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Talk to him and tell him that today is the last day. I did that with bottles and told my son that he would be on sippy cups and we put them in the ice box and the next day he knew where to get them. You might trade out the pacifier for a new stuff toy or blanket
2007-09-02 10:45:55 · answer #4 · answered by Done 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter would never let go of the pacifier. We tried everything but she would cry and beg for it back. I finally got the idea to cut the tips of the ends of the nipples of and gave them back to her. She did not like sucking on them anymore and would just carry it around. This lasted a couple of weeks and she finally just left them alone.
2007-09-02 11:59:15 · answer #5 · answered by alp807 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son lost his and i told him we couldn't find it. He cried a bit for 3 days but after that he didn't mention it again! I think you should "accidentally" lose it and tell your child that you aren't able to get another one because all the babies have taken them.
2007-09-02 10:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it away, but give her something special in place of the binki. Throw them ALL away at this point.
2007-09-02 11:38:53 · answer #7 · answered by treecesherry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
start limiting his time with his passy, like today, take 30 min. off of what he noramlly gets, and tomorrow, let him use it for 45 min. less, and so on and so on.
2007-09-02 10:24:14 · answer #8 · answered by julie v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a fun way???
how about putting tabasco or worchestershire sauce on it..
(the fun part is watching their reaction)
now this sounds cruel but its a common way of stopping...
2007-09-02 10:39:06 · answer #9 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
just collect them up and trash them this is why it should have been gone at age one same with the bottle
2007-09-02 10:21:33 · answer #10 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋