Tips For Giving Up the Pacifier For Good
Breaking up with binky is hard to do. There are infinite ways to quit the pacifier, and everybody has an opinion. While some doctors urge parents to get rid of the suckers by a certain age for dental and language reasons, others are more lenient. Regardless of how you decide to wean your tot from the paci, there will be good days and bad. Here are some techniques mamas have used.
A visit from the pacifier fairy. Have the pacifier fairy visit your home to collect the suckers for lil boys and girls who need them. Like the tooth fairy, this one leaves a gift as a thank you.
Make it unusable. Cut the silicone nipple vertically in half. Your tot's tongue won't like the feeling as much as the original.
Give it to the baby animals. At Stockholm's Skansen Zoo, wee ones donate their old pacifiers to the new baby animals and the binkies are hung from trees in the children's zoo.
Change the rules. Start curtailing the places the pacifier can be used until it becomes inconvenient for your lil one to use it.
Trade up. Offer for your child to trade in his paci for a coveted new toy or video.
Go cold turkey. Simply take away the pacifier one night and toss it.
Lose it. Next time you are searching frantically for the pacifier, simply give up and say that it is lost and can't be replaced.
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