One stressful moment in our child's life is breaking them of the binkie (well, at least it has been for us). We have had 3 binkie babies (which I prefer rather than the thumb.) The first one was so absolutely hard to break, the second one was pretty easy (except for the fact that she stopped taking naps), and my little A. has not been too bad so far.
Everyone varies as to when they think the binkie should go bye-bye. My thought is usually around age 2. We weren't very anxious with A. since she is our last baby. It's been nice to hold onto the baby stage for a little longer. But usually an opportunity arises that you must take hold of and just run with it. For two of our girls it was loosing all of the binkies somewhere in the house.
This opportunity arose and I ran with it (hubby was not totally excited about it, but oh well.) So far, so good. I am a stand firm, don't give in and A. is doing pretty good. Bed time and naps times are still a bit of a struggle, but they are getting better. (I use the super nanny trick of putting them back in their bed over and over and it has been working.)
Here are a few tips to help you break your little one from the binkie:
*Put the binkie inside of a Build-A-Bear. That way they still have the binkie to hold but not put in their mouth. (My hubby came up with this idea and that's what worked with our #1.)
*Loose all of the binkies and just tough it out with crying and so forth - DON'T GIVE IN!!!!
*Put a small hole/cut the tip off in the binkies so that is affects the sucking and they don't want them anymore, you will still probably have to deal with some crying, etc., but DON'T GIVE IN!!!
*Start limiting the binkie to bed time and car time only. Make them leave it at home or in the car when you are out in public or with friends.
*If they are old enough, have your dentist have a talk with them and then have then turn over the binkies to the dentist.
Worst case you have some whining and crying for a day or two, but eventually they will forget all about them. What have you tried?
*Put a small hole/cut the tip off in the binkies so that is affects the sucking and they don't want them anymore, you will still probably have to deal with some crying, etc., but DON'T GIVE IN!!!
*Start limiting the binkie to bed time and car time only. Make them leave it at home or in the car when you are out in public or with friends.
*If they are old enough, have your dentist have a talk with them and then have then turn over the binkies to the dentist.
Worst case you have some whining and crying for a day or two, but eventually they will forget all about them. What have you tried?
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