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I know it's hard but seriously take it off him and dont cave in. With my daughter I was sick and tired of her biting holes in the dummy.. so i just stopped buying them and she went without. It's going to be tough.. but seriously it will be worth it.
~ Bell
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When my son was about 2 I decided to try and get him off the dummy. It was around Christmas time when I had decided this, and I spoke to him and said how about we give Santa your dummy and then you have no dummy anymore and he agreed. So we got his dummy put it in a snap lock bag and went and saw Santa at the shopping centre and he walked up to him and gave him his dummy, and surpisingly he never asked for it again. So my trick in weening him out of things was to give Santa, Easter Bunny etc his things and he thought they would give his dummy, bottle etc to other little babies who needed them more than he did.
~ Nae
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I have a 2 1/2 year old son and we have just started not giving him the dummy as i also did not want him having one when he was 4 lol. I was the one who always gave in and gave it to him to stop him winging, but my partner is tougher and stuck to it. I started by only giving it to him when he was going to bed but for the past week he has not had one at all. We have been saying to him "no yucky". you just have to be patient and persistent & it will work my son has been without a dummy now for 1 week and hasnt even been asking for it. Also if he askes for one just try and change the subject and talk about something else or draw his attention to something else.
I know it is hard you think they will have it forever, but it does work & they do forget about it.
My son was a full on dummy kid he had to have it 24/7!!
~ Tara |
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Hey Zanabelle. I seen a story on super nanny where a little girl wouldnt get rid of her dummy.. They told her that they were going to give all of her dummys to the dummy fairy so she/he could take them to all of the little babys that needed them most. they then collected up all of the dummys & put them in a bag & hung them on a tree outside. later they went to look & the dummys were gone & there was a special gift inside..
Maybe you could try something like that??
~ Emma |
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I watched a very similar show and they gave the parents 2 options... One was to offer a gift if after a month there was no dummy, the child gets to choose the gift the 2nd was to bury them in the garden and get your child involved in doing that!!!
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It depends how old your child is in able to understand!!!
I know my daughter wouldnt completly understand she is almost 21 months old... I only ever give Kyla her Dummy when she is going to bed or if we are out somewhere like a restraunt or a bbq and she starts getting grumpy!!! Goodluck!
~ Aimz
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Yeah you're suggestions are really good, except he's only 12 months old! :P
~ Zanabelle |
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My mum swapped our bottles for something of our choice so it may work with the Dummy. She took us to a store and told us we could have what ever we wanted within reason in exchange for the bottle. We were only little so we just picked the first thing we saw and at child height they tend to be cheap, it worked from that day on we were bottle free. Make sure you make the rules very clear and see what happends. My little one still has a dummy and she is nearly 2, only at bed time though. I am not worried just yet but this time next year I will try the dummy swap with her. Good luck with finding a solution :0)
~ Jodie
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