How to Get Your Toddler to Stop Using a Pacifier

It took me forever to get my oldest daughter off of the pacifier. She would kick, scream, and cry when we tried to take it away from her. We would get embarrassed to take her anywhere because she had to have it with her and it was easier to just let her have her way.

As she started growing out of toddler hood, we noticed her speech became affected by using the pacifier and she had a small gap between her front teeth. It was time to get serious and get her off of it.

Getting her off the pacifier was easier than I thought. I kicked myself for not trying it earlier. Here is what I did and I hope that it works for you. It did for us!

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• scissors

1. Start telling your child that they have big kid teeth now and that anyday they will be too sharp for their pacifier. Big kids can't have pacifiers because their teeth are much too sharp.

2. That night when they fall asleep, take their pacifier and cut the very end of their pacifier off. When they wake up they will notice that it has been cut. Explain that their teeth are too sharp. They are big kids.

3. Do this with all of the pacifiers until they are all destroyed. Kids usually don't like the pacifiers when the tips are cut.

4. Another thing you can try that worked for my friend is to tell your child there is a Pacifier Fairy. Leave their pacifier under the pillow and when they wake up they get a prize from the fairy. The fairy brings the pacifier to poor little babies that don't have pacifiers and need one.