Quitting the Binky
Pacifiers are a wonderful invention, they save lives and calm down babies. Yet, there comes a time that a child will have to give it up.
While there are many children using pacifiers, and some of them simply grow out of it, how can you get your child to give up the binky if they don’t want to let it go so easily?
A Parenting.com advice column has some fantastic tips to help during this time:
1. Months before you take the pacifier away, enforce the rule that it’s just for naps and nighttime, preferably only in bed. Upright, wide-awake pacifier use becomes something that’s simply not done. Other times, put it where your child can’t get to it or even see it. There will be crying, so divert attention with a story or favorite game.
2. After a few weeks of this, withdraw the pacifier during naptime. He’ll cry, but if he’s tired enough and still needs his nap, he’ll fall asleep anyway.
I’m going through these steps myself right now. We have now limited pacifier use to only sleep time, and I try not to give it to my daughter until she asks for it (there are already a very high amount of times she simply forgets about it).
There’s a few more tips over at the linked website, and it’s a great article with very useful and do-able suggestions.
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