How To Do Just About Everything
By Amanda Smith
Get Rid of Your Child's Pacifier
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Breaking you kid's addiction to their pacifier can be challenging. I have a few tips for helping your child let go.
Ever heard of the pacifier fairy? Have your toddler put their pacifiers under their pillow at bed-time. At night, as they sleep, the pacifier fairy will take the pacifiers and put a special gift under their pillow. After she collects the pacifiers, she can't give them back.
Take your toddler to a fountain and have them toss the pacifier in it! The idea is to throw it away. Make sure your toddler is throwing it away for the right reasons and not because it's fun to throw stuff in the water!
Pick a date and have a burial ceremony. Have your toddler say their final goodbye and bury the pacifier in the dirt. Just remember to go back and dig it up as they are not biodegradable.
Do you know someone who is having a new baby? Teach your toddler the importance of sharing by explaining that babies need pacifiers. Talk your toddler in to wrapping their binky up and giving it as a gift. Just don't actually do it!
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CraigFehr said
on 12/21/2007 We had our son, 2 years old - send his pacifier on a vacation. It worked very well, we kept it out of site and when asked about it "It is still on vacation" was our reply. This worked very well.
CraigFehr said
on 12/21/2007 We had our son send his pacifier on a vacation. it worked amazingly.
rebeccamommyof4 said
on 12/10/2007 We cut off half of the silicone part of the pacifiers so there was not enough left to suck on and told our son, age 2, that they were broken and we had to get rid of them. So we had him say "Bye bye nukies" and he threw them away in the garbage. Of course at night time and nap time he wanted them, so we kept one "broken" one to show him that they no longer worked anymore. He was okay with that.
amandals20 said
on 12/9/2007 Bitter Yuck, huh? Very interesting! So I'm making a note of this for future personal use and possible article's sake ;)
Thanks!
BarryWaite said
on 12/9/2007 Okay, different subject. But we had a problem with our daughter sucking her thumb (4 yrs old). We tried the over the counter remedies and then by accident came across something...Bitter Yuck which is a dog chew spray. No harmful ingredients just tastes yucky. So not sure if you are going to write on sucking thumbs, but it worked for us. Keep those young people's articles coming I enjoy reading them.