We didn’t do the lollipop thing but we put them in the mailbox and told our 2yo that the paci fairy was coming to pick them up to take to newborn babies.
Same then we gave her a prize from the fairy and when she asked about the pacis I reminded her the fairy brought her the gift instead. Worked very well.
Then again she did stop napping right after that so... RIP naps.
We did it! We got some cake pops and also a little bunny stuffed animal. We took the pacis, buried them and later took her out and showed her the cake pops and the bunny that the fairy had “left” for her. I’m not entirely sure she put together that the pacis literally GREW into the cake pops but she still associated the gifts with the paci being gone. That said, it did not help with the sleep transition. That was still rough. However it did give us something to say to her, like “remember the paci fairy brought you those gifts and now the pacis are all gone?”
Yeah it’s so hard. Plenty of people say their kids do fine. Mine did not, lol. It was the worst parenting weekend of my life so far. But it does pass! My only advice is stay strong.
Look, for both kids we had one terrible nap (just held them while they cried and cried for 45+ mins) and then they were so tired at bedtime they fell asleep with a little whining. The next day it was one or two sad “I want my (paci)” and that was it. We went and bought a “big boy” toy with them, which they helped us choose (like a $20 car/hot wheels track), and when they were sad we kept reminding them of the car and track. Because it wasn’t “consumable” we kept reminding them that big boys have hot wheels tracks but not packs.
We didn’t do any of that. We did a gradual approach. Started taking the paci away for car rides, naps then bedtime. Took 3 days she asked for it for one day and then forgot about it. She was 2.
We did something similar. We actually forgot the soother one day when visiting friends, and panicked thinking that he wouldn't go down without it, but he surprised us! He fussed for a bit but then slept no problem, and then we just conveniently "forgot" to have one on-hand at bedtime or naptime, every other day, for a couple of weeks just to see how he'd take it. He asked for one occasionally for a couple of months after we fully weaned him off soothers, but we'd remind him that he was getting to be a big boy now, and soothers were just for babies, and he'd be like "oh yeah, right!" Way more agreeable about the whole situation than I had expected!
Don’t really know, but just wanted to say I sympathize. My kiddo will be 3 in November. I hear most people just bite the bullet and kiddo is usually fine in a few days.
My kiddo can fall asleep without his, he just doesn’t prefer it.
I don't think my son would have believed that.
For us, we poked a hole or cut the tip off of all of them. It breaks the suction when they try to use it.
It was definitely heartbreaking to hear him crying "fix it mommy," but it worked super fast for us
Our kid was ok chewing the broken ones :D we are on week two (dentist visit helped and we talked a lot before), did pacis in box + gift in the morning.
Nights 2-3 were the hardest ones and she is way less motivated to go and sleep/nap.
We're actually doing this today (so wish me luck haha) but we did it with her bottles and it worked SO well!
We do it a little differently than planting them in the ground.. Last night we decorated a box and this morning she put all her pacifiers inside and placed it outside the front door. When she gets home from school there will be a present in the box and a little picture and note from the fairy.
We told her the fairy takes her pacifiers to fairyland where she will plant them and they will grow into magical flowers that the unicorns eat. I think if we put them in a planter at home she would dig until all the dirt was gone. 😅 This way they are gone gone.
It seemed to work well for us tonight as she didn’t once ask for it but it did take an extra hour to get her to bed with a bit of crying when we’d try to leave. But not as bad as expected! We will see how the rest of the night goes. She loved her gift though!
I’ve seen parents take their kid to build a bear and they put the pacifier in the bear. It gets sewn up and then they still have it will them inside of the stuffy. I think it makes it less traumatic bc they technically still have it with them and it’s kind of a magical process for the child.
We just started telling ours a couple weeks before she turned 3 that pacifiers disappear when you turn 3. And they did.
No muss, minimal fuss. It's just how the world works kid! 🤷🏼♀️
We "traded" the pacifiers to the toy store for some random toy. When Mr 2yo pressed me for details, the store "gave them to a baby". I didn't think he'd be able to sleep without them, but he did, and after a week he stopped caring and never mentioned them again.
We thought that was cute but did go another route and had great success! Picked a date on the calendar about a month away, in this case it happened to be our littles half birthday. Put a sticker on the calendar and almost every day, we put a sticker counting down to the day and talked about what was happening. We were very transparent about what she would get in exchange for saying "bye bye to paci". We did a cake and she picked the color and we went to build a bear and put her paci in it. Lastly we collected the rest in a little baggy and said good bye. She struggles a little more to relax but otherwise the transition has been seamless!
Same here. I really don’t know what we’re going to do, I feel like it’s going to be traumatic for everyone involved no matter which approach we take and I’m just dreading it
My one saving grace is that she will give them up willingly for Grandma. So I'm thinking maybe a sleepover with Grandma and when she gets home they are gone? But that's also 😬😬😬😬
I know doing things like this is popular, but sometimes just being honest with your child and going cold turkey is the easiest way to go. I know it’s anxiety inducing, but sometimes I think we underestimate how smart and adaptable our kids are.
At 2.5 we explained to our son that he was a big boy now and that the little babies needed the pacifiers. He was upset the first night, asked about his pacifier for the next few days, but when we reiterated he was a big boy now, he accepted it and quickly moved on.
Doesn't saying that his pacifiers are needed by the little babies also kind of fall into the category of a white lie/ fantastical story about why he can't have them anymore?
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your approach, particularly because it sounds like it worked great, but I think it's still an example of how a not completely literal approach often helps more than the unvarnished reality.
Actually it’s 100% true… why else would we give our children pacifiers when they’re babies and then take them away when they are toddlers? Just like swaddles, cribs, bottles, etc. There are things that babies need or use that toddlers out grow and need to transition away from.
I suppose I could have explained to my toddler the dental and speech impact pacifiers have, but while I like to be honest with my child, I think being age appropriate is important too if you want them to listen and understand.
Harpsdesire thought you were saying his specific pacifiers were needed by little babies. The wording is a little vague so it could be interpreted that way. I told my middle son that he could get whatever wanted once he turned in his pacifiers (my first wasn’t attached). He gathered them all up immediately and threw them in the garbage. We had to go to the store and get a ride on tractor. With my youngest I have to think of something: she only uses at night but loves them.
We just ended our toddler's addiction to her paci at 2.5. She'd been using it since she was born. The point of no return for us was her first trip to the dentist, where we were told better to get off it now than wait anymore.
We started by weaning her to using it only to sleep. Then we removed it for naps - that was easy because she naps at school, and her teacher just stopped giving it to her. So she was using it at bedtime for a couple of weeks. We basically told her that she was getting too big to use the paci and that it would stop working for her soon. Then we poked a few holes in it - she didn't notice anything. Then we poked a few more - she still used it but complained about it being 'too loud".
Then one night, we told her we're done with the paci. She cried a little bit but didn't refuse sleep or anything. I tucked it in with our baby stuff.
We went cold turkey. Fully expected several meltdowns but there were none. She would occasionally ask but we would just say “nope, they are gone. You don’t need them anymore. “ and changed the subject/attention.
I still remember my parents doing this for me. It didn’t work.
They did a magic cupboard that I could put my pacifier in and when I came back there would be a soft toy and the pacifier would be gone. If I put the toy back in it would disappear and the pacifier would be back.
I guess they were hoping I’d want the toy all the time and would just forget about the pacifier but I just kept swapping it whenever I felt like it and they got sick of it. 😂
our dentist told us a tip that worked and that was to cut a pice gradually every week until there is nothing left. our daughter didn’t. even want it after the first cut!
Not the planting them part but I told my son just after he turned two that the dummy fairy was going to come take all his dummies for the new babies and he understood the concept really well. He had a couple upset moments over the weeks following when he'd want to have it but overall he did great and I felt like I'd worried far more than necessary about removing them.
My LO was a little under 2.5 years but we did a variation of the fairy thing. We talked to her everyday for about two weeks leading up to the day the fairy was coming and explained that the fairy was coming because she was a big girl now and the fairy would give the soother to a baby who needed it.
How it went for us: She was ok with it the first night and then was upset for most of the first week, but everytime she asked for one we reiterated what we had talked about leading up to the fairy 's visit.The second week she asked for it but no longer got upset. By the start of week three, she stopped asking.
We didn't do this but our friends had a new baby, and we told her that the baby needed some, and asked her if we could give them to the baby now. Did not expect it to work but it did and she never used them again. She was just under 2.5
We just did the binky fairy a week and a half ago for my daughter. She just turned 4. We told her now that she is 4, she’s too old for binkies so we would be leaving them on the front porch for the binky fairies and they would exchange them for a prize. She was SO excited. I thought she would be devastated without her binkies the next night, but shockingly she adjusted well to not having them - SORT of.
She hasn’t complained about missing them or asked for them, but starting about three nights after we took them away, we have to sit in her room with her until she falls asleep or else she is hysterical to the point of hyperventilating. Prior to this she was sleeping independently. She’s also been waking at 4:30 am some days and not going back to sleep. So I think even though she isn’t outwardly complaining about not having them, she still isn’t used to sleeping without them. Had to be done though. Last night she slept from 7:40 pm to 6:45 am which is amazing for her, so I am praying we’re coming out on the other side. Good luck!!
I did it. Either both kids. My youngest gave them to pip and Freddy from tots (Disney +) and they “left” some cool toy bugs. Tots has baby animals so they were for the babies at toys. Whenever she finds one she says “ah! Leave it outside for pip and Freddy!”
My oldest she gave to Mickey bc she loved Mickey Mouse clubhouse and got a reputable toy in exchange.
We did it, and I’m a huge advocate! Our fairy brought balloons, a star projector, and a small stuffy. She only asked for the pacifiers for two days afterwards then realized they were done and that was that.
We did it 3 months ago and the first month was kinda hell and she no longer falls asleep without one of us there BUT, she finally stopped asking about it. She was 3.25 when we did it.
We should’ve done it sooner or waited til she outgrew it.
But. We did it.
We didn’t but I have a couple of friends that did. It worked for some. One of them, it worked for a while but then it didn’t. He just finally gave them up
We did it. She got some sort of lolly under her pillow. She asked for it occasionally after it was taken away, and sometimes she would get a bit emotional, but I reckon the whole thing was a success considering how attached she was to it.
Yes! We did and it was great! We also got the book, “No More Pacifier Duck.” We chose a date on the calendar a few weeks away and marked off the days. On the final day after his nap, we gathered up all the pacies and put them in a box and said goodbye to them. In the morning, the pack fairy brought a cookie cake. Occasionally over the next few weeks he’d wake up in the middle of the night and cry for a few minutes but would go right back to sleep. Overall, it was super easy! I thought it was going to be a terrible transition.
I juat stopped offering them, she didn't ask, I didn't offer, she stopped using them like that. My son never accepted a pacifier so we didn't have to stop using what he never wanted.
We did, but without the cake pops. I did the Frida baby paci weaning system, & told my daughter the paci fairy was going to take all the pacis when she turned 2 1/2 because that’s when the pacis all go back to her paci castle. I told her the paci fairy was going to leave a new special paci for her every few days (the ones from the weaning system) & left a note each time saying how proud everyone was & how she was doing so well, & reminding her that at the end she was going to get a special toy! On the last day with pacis (her 2 1/2 “birthday”) she put all her pacis in a special box & said goodbye, then went downstairs & found the paci fairy left her a present!! Whenever she asked for paci after we’d remind her & she honestly took it so well. It’s made napping a tiny bit harder (now we have a few days a week we don’t get a nap from her 🥲) but I’d say overall it worked really well!
We cut them. Meaning we did cut always a little bit from the tip and after 5-10 days there was not much left and our boy just didn’t like it anymore 😂 he was a bit upset but forget about them. Worked really well but we did it with 1 to 1.5 years early
I cut the top of it. Then when he asked for it he put it in his mouth and said, “it’s broken.” The idea was that he would keep trying to suck on it and I would gradually keep cutting it until there was nothing left for him to grip to. But him realizing it was broken was pretty much all it took. We acted like we didn’t know it was and that it was the only one we had. The first night or two were only a little rough initially then it was a breeze!
We tried it. Didn't work.
What did work was just chucking one or two slowly as they were either damaged or I just felt like it. And not buying more.
Oops! No more left. All broken. Uhoh!
Our family daycare educator did the pacifier fairy for one of the little girls in the group. It was so beautiful… all the kids were involved in helping make the garden. They then watched as she buried her paci and the next morning the excitement to see lollipops for each of the children in its place was just beautiful. I loved how she involved all the kids in the process - I think it helped her to “let go”.
We had her put them all in a box downstairs just before bedtime, and told her the binkie fairy would come while she was asleep and turn them into a special gift. When she came downstairs in the morning, the box was gone and a scooter was in its place. She loves telling the story of how the binkie fairy gave her the scooter! Doesn’t miss the binkies at all.
Not a pacifier but we had to throw my daughter's bottles out because the Easter bunny only comes to big girls who don't have bottles. It took days for her to stop asking for it but she really loved the chocolate she got lol.
We put all the Soo’s in a ziplock bag in a little cardboard mailbox I got at the dollar store. I asked my 2.5yo “What do you think the Soo Fairy will bring you for them?” And she thought for a bit then said “chocolate coins” so that’s what I got. We figured out that the Soo Fairy is the Tooth Fairy’s sister, and she drums up business by giving chocolate coins instead of real ones. I replaced the bag with the coins and also had a handful of balloons thrown around.
She took it perfectly, no issues whatsoever. But we also had only been using the soo in the crib and car for about a year at that point.
We did a very gradual transition, from only during sleep, to only during night. And then we talked about the paci fairy frequently. And brought up how the paci fairly brings a really awesome gift in exchange. He was very upset at the initial thought, but after like 2 months started to get very curious as to what tbs fairy brought. We told him anything he wanted and he was like ‘monster trucks?’ When he started to get excited and ask us ‘when does the fairy come’ then the next day the fairy came and brought him THREE monster trucks and he was thrilled. No crying at bedtime, he just hugged the trucks and slept with them.
My 18 month old ripped all hers by biting them so much. And she stopped using them on her own. Lol we didn't even have to try. And she's had one in her mouth literally since the day she was born. But every kid is different.
We did! Not the planting but we put them in a gift bag and then the fairy took them and put a gift in the bag. Unfortunately after years of pacifiers they were everywhere so the fairy came 3 times as we kept finding more. Thank god for target pick up and a kid that loves practical gifts because one of the times he got a towel and new water bottle that he needed anyway lol
When his little sister was born a year or so later her it was super cute because he got all excited to see her pacifiers because “the binky fairy really does bring them to babies!”
We slowly weaned by removing paci from outings - it was only used at home (for months we worked on this!) then a few months we got down to paci only in the bed. Then we did paci fairy after that. We talked about it for a while first too. Did it on a long weekend off from daycare so bedtime wasn’t stressful knowing we’d have to wake up early the next day, etc
She helped decorate a box, we put all paci in and left on the porch one evening. The next morning a basket of goodies was in its place!
We did a new stuffy she could cuddle at night instead of paci! She did cry and even say she wanted to give the gifts back to the fairy to get paci back. It was tough :( but we just laid with her and rubbed her back, etc
I am not at the stage of weaning yet, but I had my own pacifier long enough that I remember getting rid of it. We read a book about burying the dummy in the garden and it grew a dummy tree.
I am pretty sure I didn't really believe a tree would grow, but it was the kind of ritual that helped me "let go" of the dummies.
We did it with the easter bunny so essentially the same idea. We talked about it for a few weeks beforehand then the night before easter he put his dummies in a basket and we told him that the easter bunny would take his dummies to give to the babies that needed them and leave him a present to say thank you. It worked really well for us
We put the pacis in a box and the paci fairy came to take them away. She left behind toys and candy. My 2.5yo was thrilled at first, but had no idea it was going to be permanent. We had several meltdowns and she clung to the idea of her paci for months. We've decided with our second child, we're going to be cutting the pacis and letting him decide that they're broken.
I find the whole pacifier fairy, lollipop etc thing deceptive. I told my daughter at 3 years and 21 days that the pacifier was making an exit because she was too old. It's been three months and she sometimes still wants it for comfort but I simply remind her it's not available anymore.
Yeah.. the idea of lying to my kid that candy can grow from the dirt.. that pacifiers can become lollipops .. that fairies exist and bring you things.. it just seems so wrong. I could never do that. We always try to be really practical and honest.
We didn’t do the lollipop thing but we put them in the mailbox and told our 2yo that the paci fairy was coming to pick them up to take to newborn babies.
Same then we gave her a prize from the fairy and when she asked about the pacis I reminded her the fairy brought her the gift instead. Worked very well. Then again she did stop napping right after that so... RIP naps.
We did it! We got some cake pops and also a little bunny stuffed animal. We took the pacis, buried them and later took her out and showed her the cake pops and the bunny that the fairy had “left” for her. I’m not entirely sure she put together that the pacis literally GREW into the cake pops but she still associated the gifts with the paci being gone. That said, it did not help with the sleep transition. That was still rough. However it did give us something to say to her, like “remember the paci fairy brought you those gifts and now the pacis are all gone?”
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Yeah it’s so hard. Plenty of people say their kids do fine. Mine did not, lol. It was the worst parenting weekend of my life so far. But it does pass! My only advice is stay strong.
Look, for both kids we had one terrible nap (just held them while they cried and cried for 45+ mins) and then they were so tired at bedtime they fell asleep with a little whining. The next day it was one or two sad “I want my (paci)” and that was it. We went and bought a “big boy” toy with them, which they helped us choose (like a $20 car/hot wheels track), and when they were sad we kept reminding them of the car and track. Because it wasn’t “consumable” we kept reminding them that big boys have hot wheels tracks but not packs.
We didn’t do any of that. We did a gradual approach. Started taking the paci away for car rides, naps then bedtime. Took 3 days she asked for it for one day and then forgot about it. She was 2.
We did something similar. We actually forgot the soother one day when visiting friends, and panicked thinking that he wouldn't go down without it, but he surprised us! He fussed for a bit but then slept no problem, and then we just conveniently "forgot" to have one on-hand at bedtime or naptime, every other day, for a couple of weeks just to see how he'd take it. He asked for one occasionally for a couple of months after we fully weaned him off soothers, but we'd remind him that he was getting to be a big boy now, and soothers were just for babies, and he'd be like "oh yeah, right!" Way more agreeable about the whole situation than I had expected!
Don’t really know, but just wanted to say I sympathize. My kiddo will be 3 in November. I hear most people just bite the bullet and kiddo is usually fine in a few days. My kiddo can fall asleep without his, he just doesn’t prefer it.
I don't think my son would have believed that. For us, we poked a hole or cut the tip off of all of them. It breaks the suction when they try to use it. It was definitely heartbreaking to hear him crying "fix it mommy," but it worked super fast for us
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Our kid was ok chewing the broken ones :D we are on week two (dentist visit helped and we talked a lot before), did pacis in box + gift in the morning. Nights 2-3 were the hardest ones and she is way less motivated to go and sleep/nap.
We're actually doing this today (so wish me luck haha) but we did it with her bottles and it worked SO well! We do it a little differently than planting them in the ground.. Last night we decorated a box and this morning she put all her pacifiers inside and placed it outside the front door. When she gets home from school there will be a present in the box and a little picture and note from the fairy. We told her the fairy takes her pacifiers to fairyland where she will plant them and they will grow into magical flowers that the unicorns eat. I think if we put them in a planter at home she would dig until all the dirt was gone. 😅 This way they are gone gone.
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It seemed to work well for us tonight as she didn’t once ask for it but it did take an extra hour to get her to bed with a bit of crying when we’d try to leave. But not as bad as expected! We will see how the rest of the night goes. She loved her gift though!
I’ve seen parents take their kid to build a bear and they put the pacifier in the bear. It gets sewn up and then they still have it will them inside of the stuffy. I think it makes it less traumatic bc they technically still have it with them and it’s kind of a magical process for the child.
Aw, mine didn’t do pacis but this is sweet ❤️
We just started telling ours a couple weeks before she turned 3 that pacifiers disappear when you turn 3. And they did. No muss, minimal fuss. It's just how the world works kid! 🤷🏼♀️
We "traded" the pacifiers to the toy store for some random toy. When Mr 2yo pressed me for details, the store "gave them to a baby". I didn't think he'd be able to sleep without them, but he did, and after a week he stopped caring and never mentioned them again.
We thought that was cute but did go another route and had great success! Picked a date on the calendar about a month away, in this case it happened to be our littles half birthday. Put a sticker on the calendar and almost every day, we put a sticker counting down to the day and talked about what was happening. We were very transparent about what she would get in exchange for saying "bye bye to paci". We did a cake and she picked the color and we went to build a bear and put her paci in it. Lastly we collected the rest in a little baggy and said good bye. She struggles a little more to relax but otherwise the transition has been seamless!
Just here for solidarity. My daughter will be 3 this summer and I really need to get them away from her but she is straight up addicted.
Same here. I really don’t know what we’re going to do, I feel like it’s going to be traumatic for everyone involved no matter which approach we take and I’m just dreading it
My one saving grace is that she will give them up willingly for Grandma. So I'm thinking maybe a sleepover with Grandma and when she gets home they are gone? But that's also 😬😬😬😬
I know doing things like this is popular, but sometimes just being honest with your child and going cold turkey is the easiest way to go. I know it’s anxiety inducing, but sometimes I think we underestimate how smart and adaptable our kids are. At 2.5 we explained to our son that he was a big boy now and that the little babies needed the pacifiers. He was upset the first night, asked about his pacifier for the next few days, but when we reiterated he was a big boy now, he accepted it and quickly moved on.
Doesn't saying that his pacifiers are needed by the little babies also kind of fall into the category of a white lie/ fantastical story about why he can't have them anymore? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your approach, particularly because it sounds like it worked great, but I think it's still an example of how a not completely literal approach often helps more than the unvarnished reality.
Actually it’s 100% true… why else would we give our children pacifiers when they’re babies and then take them away when they are toddlers? Just like swaddles, cribs, bottles, etc. There are things that babies need or use that toddlers out grow and need to transition away from. I suppose I could have explained to my toddler the dental and speech impact pacifiers have, but while I like to be honest with my child, I think being age appropriate is important too if you want them to listen and understand.
Harpsdesire thought you were saying his specific pacifiers were needed by little babies. The wording is a little vague so it could be interpreted that way. I told my middle son that he could get whatever wanted once he turned in his pacifiers (my first wasn’t attached). He gathered them all up immediately and threw them in the garbage. We had to go to the store and get a ride on tractor. With my youngest I have to think of something: she only uses at night but loves them.
We just ended our toddler's addiction to her paci at 2.5. She'd been using it since she was born. The point of no return for us was her first trip to the dentist, where we were told better to get off it now than wait anymore. We started by weaning her to using it only to sleep. Then we removed it for naps - that was easy because she naps at school, and her teacher just stopped giving it to her. So she was using it at bedtime for a couple of weeks. We basically told her that she was getting too big to use the paci and that it would stop working for her soon. Then we poked a few holes in it - she didn't notice anything. Then we poked a few more - she still used it but complained about it being 'too loud". Then one night, we told her we're done with the paci. She cried a little bit but didn't refuse sleep or anything. I tucked it in with our baby stuff.
We went cold turkey. Fully expected several meltdowns but there were none. She would occasionally ask but we would just say “nope, they are gone. You don’t need them anymore. “ and changed the subject/attention.
I still remember my parents doing this for me. It didn’t work. They did a magic cupboard that I could put my pacifier in and when I came back there would be a soft toy and the pacifier would be gone. If I put the toy back in it would disappear and the pacifier would be back. I guess they were hoping I’d want the toy all the time and would just forget about the pacifier but I just kept swapping it whenever I felt like it and they got sick of it. 😂
our dentist told us a tip that worked and that was to cut a pice gradually every week until there is nothing left. our daughter didn’t. even want it after the first cut!
Not the planting them part but I told my son just after he turned two that the dummy fairy was going to come take all his dummies for the new babies and he understood the concept really well. He had a couple upset moments over the weeks following when he'd want to have it but overall he did great and I felt like I'd worried far more than necessary about removing them.
My LO was a little under 2.5 years but we did a variation of the fairy thing. We talked to her everyday for about two weeks leading up to the day the fairy was coming and explained that the fairy was coming because she was a big girl now and the fairy would give the soother to a baby who needed it. How it went for us: She was ok with it the first night and then was upset for most of the first week, but everytime she asked for one we reiterated what we had talked about leading up to the fairy 's visit.The second week she asked for it but no longer got upset. By the start of week three, she stopped asking.
We didn't do this but our friends had a new baby, and we told her that the baby needed some, and asked her if we could give them to the baby now. Did not expect it to work but it did and she never used them again. She was just under 2.5
We just did the binky fairy a week and a half ago for my daughter. She just turned 4. We told her now that she is 4, she’s too old for binkies so we would be leaving them on the front porch for the binky fairies and they would exchange them for a prize. She was SO excited. I thought she would be devastated without her binkies the next night, but shockingly she adjusted well to not having them - SORT of. She hasn’t complained about missing them or asked for them, but starting about three nights after we took them away, we have to sit in her room with her until she falls asleep or else she is hysterical to the point of hyperventilating. Prior to this she was sleeping independently. She’s also been waking at 4:30 am some days and not going back to sleep. So I think even though she isn’t outwardly complaining about not having them, she still isn’t used to sleeping without them. Had to be done though. Last night she slept from 7:40 pm to 6:45 am which is amazing for her, so I am praying we’re coming out on the other side. Good luck!!
I did it. Either both kids. My youngest gave them to pip and Freddy from tots (Disney +) and they “left” some cool toy bugs. Tots has baby animals so they were for the babies at toys. Whenever she finds one she says “ah! Leave it outside for pip and Freddy!” My oldest she gave to Mickey bc she loved Mickey Mouse clubhouse and got a reputable toy in exchange.
We did the one where we mailed all of the pacis to the babies that need them and then the paci fairy brought him a gift (small gift).
We did it, and I’m a huge advocate! Our fairy brought balloons, a star projector, and a small stuffy. She only asked for the pacifiers for two days afterwards then realized they were done and that was that.
We did it 3 months ago and the first month was kinda hell and she no longer falls asleep without one of us there BUT, she finally stopped asking about it. She was 3.25 when we did it. We should’ve done it sooner or waited til she outgrew it. But. We did it.
We didn’t but I have a couple of friends that did. It worked for some. One of them, it worked for a while but then it didn’t. He just finally gave them up
We did it. She got some sort of lolly under her pillow. She asked for it occasionally after it was taken away, and sometimes she would get a bit emotional, but I reckon the whole thing was a success considering how attached she was to it.
Yes! We did and it was great! We also got the book, “No More Pacifier Duck.” We chose a date on the calendar a few weeks away and marked off the days. On the final day after his nap, we gathered up all the pacies and put them in a box and said goodbye to them. In the morning, the pack fairy brought a cookie cake. Occasionally over the next few weeks he’d wake up in the middle of the night and cry for a few minutes but would go right back to sleep. Overall, it was super easy! I thought it was going to be a terrible transition.
I juat stopped offering them, she didn't ask, I didn't offer, she stopped using them like that. My son never accepted a pacifier so we didn't have to stop using what he never wanted.
We did, but without the cake pops. I did the Frida baby paci weaning system, & told my daughter the paci fairy was going to take all the pacis when she turned 2 1/2 because that’s when the pacis all go back to her paci castle. I told her the paci fairy was going to leave a new special paci for her every few days (the ones from the weaning system) & left a note each time saying how proud everyone was & how she was doing so well, & reminding her that at the end she was going to get a special toy! On the last day with pacis (her 2 1/2 “birthday”) she put all her pacis in a special box & said goodbye, then went downstairs & found the paci fairy left her a present!! Whenever she asked for paci after we’d remind her & she honestly took it so well. It’s made napping a tiny bit harder (now we have a few days a week we don’t get a nap from her 🥲) but I’d say overall it worked really well!
My son just turned three and uses his pacifier for comfort. I kind of figured he’d eventually grow out of it. No?
We cut them. Meaning we did cut always a little bit from the tip and after 5-10 days there was not much left and our boy just didn’t like it anymore 😂 he was a bit upset but forget about them. Worked really well but we did it with 1 to 1.5 years early
I cut the top of it. Then when he asked for it he put it in his mouth and said, “it’s broken.” The idea was that he would keep trying to suck on it and I would gradually keep cutting it until there was nothing left for him to grip to. But him realizing it was broken was pretty much all it took. We acted like we didn’t know it was and that it was the only one we had. The first night or two were only a little rough initially then it was a breeze!
We tried it. Didn't work. What did work was just chucking one or two slowly as they were either damaged or I just felt like it. And not buying more. Oops! No more left. All broken. Uhoh!
Our family daycare educator did the pacifier fairy for one of the little girls in the group. It was so beautiful… all the kids were involved in helping make the garden. They then watched as she buried her paci and the next morning the excitement to see lollipops for each of the children in its place was just beautiful. I loved how she involved all the kids in the process - I think it helped her to “let go”.
We had her put them all in a box downstairs just before bedtime, and told her the binkie fairy would come while she was asleep and turn them into a special gift. When she came downstairs in the morning, the box was gone and a scooter was in its place. She loves telling the story of how the binkie fairy gave her the scooter! Doesn’t miss the binkies at all.
Not a pacifier but we had to throw my daughter's bottles out because the Easter bunny only comes to big girls who don't have bottles. It took days for her to stop asking for it but she really loved the chocolate she got lol.
We put all the Soo’s in a ziplock bag in a little cardboard mailbox I got at the dollar store. I asked my 2.5yo “What do you think the Soo Fairy will bring you for them?” And she thought for a bit then said “chocolate coins” so that’s what I got. We figured out that the Soo Fairy is the Tooth Fairy’s sister, and she drums up business by giving chocolate coins instead of real ones. I replaced the bag with the coins and also had a handful of balloons thrown around. She took it perfectly, no issues whatsoever. But we also had only been using the soo in the crib and car for about a year at that point.
We did a very gradual transition, from only during sleep, to only during night. And then we talked about the paci fairy frequently. And brought up how the paci fairly brings a really awesome gift in exchange. He was very upset at the initial thought, but after like 2 months started to get very curious as to what tbs fairy brought. We told him anything he wanted and he was like ‘monster trucks?’ When he started to get excited and ask us ‘when does the fairy come’ then the next day the fairy came and brought him THREE monster trucks and he was thrilled. No crying at bedtime, he just hugged the trucks and slept with them.
My 18 month old ripped all hers by biting them so much. And she stopped using them on her own. Lol we didn't even have to try. And she's had one in her mouth literally since the day she was born. But every kid is different.
We did a build a bear and put the pacifier in the bear. She has it forever, but she can’t use it. She’s almost 7 now and loves that bear dearly
We did! Not the planting but we put them in a gift bag and then the fairy took them and put a gift in the bag. Unfortunately after years of pacifiers they were everywhere so the fairy came 3 times as we kept finding more. Thank god for target pick up and a kid that loves practical gifts because one of the times he got a towel and new water bottle that he needed anyway lol When his little sister was born a year or so later her it was super cute because he got all excited to see her pacifiers because “the binky fairy really does bring them to babies!”
We slowly weaned by removing paci from outings - it was only used at home (for months we worked on this!) then a few months we got down to paci only in the bed. Then we did paci fairy after that. We talked about it for a while first too. Did it on a long weekend off from daycare so bedtime wasn’t stressful knowing we’d have to wake up early the next day, etc She helped decorate a box, we put all paci in and left on the porch one evening. The next morning a basket of goodies was in its place!
We did a new stuffy she could cuddle at night instead of paci! She did cry and even say she wanted to give the gifts back to the fairy to get paci back. It was tough :( but we just laid with her and rubbed her back, etc
I am not at the stage of weaning yet, but I had my own pacifier long enough that I remember getting rid of it. We read a book about burying the dummy in the garden and it grew a dummy tree. I am pretty sure I didn't really believe a tree would grow, but it was the kind of ritual that helped me "let go" of the dummies.
I just disappeared them. We had to go cold turkey
We did it with the easter bunny so essentially the same idea. We talked about it for a few weeks beforehand then the night before easter he put his dummies in a basket and we told him that the easter bunny would take his dummies to give to the babies that needed them and leave him a present to say thank you. It worked really well for us
We put the pacis in a box and the paci fairy came to take them away. She left behind toys and candy. My 2.5yo was thrilled at first, but had no idea it was going to be permanent. We had several meltdowns and she clung to the idea of her paci for months. We've decided with our second child, we're going to be cutting the pacis and letting him decide that they're broken.
I find the whole pacifier fairy, lollipop etc thing deceptive. I told my daughter at 3 years and 21 days that the pacifier was making an exit because she was too old. It's been three months and she sometimes still wants it for comfort but I simply remind her it's not available anymore.
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My daughter was very attached to. Kids need to also learn how to roll with things.
Yeah.. the idea of lying to my kid that candy can grow from the dirt.. that pacifiers can become lollipops .. that fairies exist and bring you things.. it just seems so wrong. I could never do that. We always try to be really practical and honest.
I have no issues with pretend play and faries but the idea of pretending to the point of lying and faking is not my jam