Binky Trouble?

You take them in to Yellowstone Park for the winter and when they lose the binkies, there's no way to get anymore. So sad. But only for a day or so. He took it in stride. Good luck.

I told my son that I could not find any of his binkies. I had a friend that cut the nipple off the binkies and told her kids that they were broken.

My husband told my daughter that the ducks needed them because she loved ducks. One day he walked her to the park and told her to gather all her binkys because they needed to take them to the quack quacks. He said every time she heard a quack from a duck it meant they were crying for a binky. So brought all her binkys to the park and put them in a pile on the grass. I later picked them up and threw them in the trash at the park and she never asked for them again. It was cold turkey and she forgot about it. Good luck!

My son had his till he was 2 and what we did was we snipped the end enough to that sooner or later it would tear and it would be broken. And there were quite a few so we gave them to the binky fairy (just like teeth) and under his pillow the next morning was a little treat. May work never know. But its kinda fun to a point for them instead of going cold turkey

for both of my girls, we went cold turkey. I just told them that it was "all gone!" and they accepted it MUCH better than I could have ever expected! And when i say they were addicted, they were ADDICTED to it!

I agree completely with the cold turkey approach, In our case, the daycare didn't allow binkies, so he only had it at night at home for several months. The we picked a date and reminded him every day for a week that it was going away. when the date came, he helped us throw them all away and we made a big fuss over how big a boy he was. Like everyone else, he fussed for a couple of nights and then it was over. Good Luck!

My son was 2 years one month when I took his bink away. I just took it. It was really hard for the first week with naps and bedtime, but then he stopped asking for it. It may not have been the right way to do it, but it worked and he has been bink free for a year and 2 months. A huge achievement for him...now we are working on potty training! Good luck to you.

We did http://www.bye-bye-binky.com/ (completely free publication you download) with our son when he was just under 2 years old and it worked great - I love that you are not forcing him to give it up but letting him lose interest in it slowly. It's a gradual process but it really only took us 2 weeks and even though he would have a pacifier available (with a tiny hole on the top) at all times on the third week, he really didn't care for it and even threw some away himself!

Good luck :)

First of all gather all of them but one and throw them away..

Tell the child if they put it under their pillow the Binky fairy will give him/her a surprise.

Tell him/her you are going to mail it to a baby that needs it, then put it in an envelope and make it disappear..

Trim the tip of it off a little bit of the rubber every day till it is all gone, then break it and tell your child, broken, all gone..

We have two boys that were obsessed with their binkies. For both kids we took the binkies in a bag to toys r us and had them "pay" for their toy of choice with binkies. Of course they wanted them back that evening but we kept refering to their new toy. There were three or four rough days mostly nap and night time. As long as you are commited to not changing your mind when they give you a sad/hard time just go for it.

Wait until they are 3.

You have received quite a few good responses but I thought I would tell you what worked amazingly well for my son. He is 3 1/2 and we just recently did this so it might not work yet for your son but it could be worth a try. My son goes to his dentist every six months and he was due to go again in January. A few months prior my husband and I kept telling him that when he goes to see Dr. Bob again he will want him to give up the pacifier because he is getting too old to have them and Dr. Bob will give them to babies who need them instead. We kept bringing this up every so often and finally when the day came I had called the dentist's office the day before to have them work with me on this. So we bagged up all four of his pacifiers and we brought them in and Dr. Bob backed up what I said; that he is a big boy now and doesn't need them and he will give them away to babies that do need them. To my amazement my son handed all four over to him without any issue and then he and I went to pick out a new boy after his appt. as a reward. He did not cry one tear over giving them up, he asked about them every so often, but he did so well. The only caution I have is he didn't nap well the first few days after doing this and now is napping I'd say five to six days a week yet he is getting to the age where he will start to give up naps so that is to be expected. So do expect a bit of trouble at nap time or bed time but overall it worked so well for us. Good luck! P.S. His dentist did say it is ok for kids to have pacifiers until the age of 4 so you do have some time still to work with this.

try telling her that some other boys or girls who really need them could use them and that she should send them hers to them and then have her put them in an envelope and put them in the mail box to send to her and she might get something in return and put something special in the mail box for her and have her go check the mail box and find her special present. Good luck!

We had a friend who was having a baby. We told my daughter that the baby needed the binky and we needed to give it to him. We went to their house and she was the one to physically give it to the baby (I think she gave it to the mom who was holding him). She did fine giving it to him, but then when bed time came, melt down. It only took a night or 2 to get over it, and then she was fine. The hardest will be on you, being strong when you want to give it back to stop the crying! Good luck. You are doing the best thing for your child by taking it away at this age.

Hi N.,
You can cut the ends of them off. Then just wait for her to say "Uh-oh, it's broken" The end!! Good luck!!

I haven't read the other responses, but what I did was cut the end of his binkey off and when he tried to suck on it, I made a big deal about it saying, "Oh no! It's broken! We gotta throw it away now." And LET YOUR CHILD throw the binkey away! If YOU do it, YOU are the bad guy, even if it's broken. When my son would ask where his binkey was afterwards I would ask him, "Where did *you* put it?" and I'd remind him that HE threw it away cuz it was broken. He was not mad at ME because He threw it away. :) (Also if you have multiple binkey's I'd suggest hiding the rest and say they all got lost but the 1 you plan on cutting.)
Good luck! My son reacted pretty well to that approach. :)

Our two kids were total binky addicts. We snipped the end off the binky and it worked like a charm--no tears. My son (18 months) kept pulling it out and looking at it and declared it broken. He didn't want a broken binky and there weren't any others, so after a couple days of seeing that it couldn't be fixed, he decided he didn't want it. It made him feel like it was his own decision.

My daughter was 2 and even more attached than my son (if that's even possible). She would have rather had a broken binky than none at all. So we just kept snipping the end a little shorter and a little shorter until she finally decided it was not worth the bother of using it, and she gave it up too.
So much easier than I had expected really!

hi htere- my personal motto for things like a binkey and a bottle-- just take it away!!! you may have a mad fussy child for a day or two but it will end- or you can try finding a friend who has a small samll child and tell your child that he's too old for it now but that your new friends baby really needs a binky and have your child give it to their child (they will of course throw it away after your child hands it over) good luck

As a childcare provider, I've gotten many children off their binkies. I first start by only letting them have it at naptime/bedtime. The binky stays in the crib and that is the only time they get it. I start that once they are mobile (crawling, scooting, rolling) and stay firm with it. Then, as they get bigger, I start telling them that they are almost too big for a binky and we talk a lot about how big kids don't use binkies, just tiny babies, and how they're not a tiny baby anymore, that they are big. I never belittle a child and say it in a derrogatory way, just as a fact that babies use binkies and big kids don't. Talking about being almost too big for a binky is the first stage. Next, we talk constantly before nap, after nap, anytime the word binky is brought up that they're almost too big for a binky and it's almost time for the binky to go bye-bye. Later, we talk about how, pretty soon, it will be time for the binky to go bye-bye in the garbage and how, when they're too big for a binky, they can throw them in the garbage and they'll be bye-bye forever. Kids get a real kick out of throwing things away. I just make sure they understand that once it goes in the garbage, it's gone forever, but that it's okay because they're a big kid and don't need a binky anymore. After talking about it so much, they really get into it and, sure enough, ask to throw their binky away. I tell them how proud I am and that they're so big they don't need a binky like babies do and make sure they understand that once it's in the garbage it's gone forever. I make a huge deal about how big they are and make a big production about throwing the binky away. Then, it's gone. If they ask for it at naptime the next day, I just remind them that they're so big they don't need it anymore, that they're "too big for a binky" and that the binky is in the garbage. I've had a few tears that 1st day, but nothing major and I've had some real binky addicts. As long as it's a final thing, with no going back or hanging on to one "just in case," you'll succeed. Good luck!

With a humungous amount of patience and perserverance.

my first was a binky-lover too. My second wouldnt touch one - even as a newborn. Go figure.

When my son turned 2, we just stopped buying binkies. We told him that when his binky's were all gone, they were going to be "all" gone. He came to his last one and boy did he ever keep track of that thing! It finally got lost somewhere along the line (I think my hubby had something to do with that) and we told him binky's were "all gone". He was a little upset but he had been prepared for it. Nap/bedtime was hardest because he wanted his binky and blanky. He cried for about 20-30 minutes the first day and with some gentle reassurance and comforting, it got better each day after that.

The funny thing is that we found one under a dresser or someplace like that. My son was over 3 by then - he saw it and his eyes got really big. He said "ooh! a binky! can I have that?" We said no, you're too big for binky's now. He was like a smoker aching for a cigarette. He pursed his lips in a little sucking motion and said "oh please? just one little suck?"

I really didnt realize how addictive they were until that day.