How Do I Take Pappy Away from My 15 Month Old

ive just got a 6 mnth old, so i dont really know from experience, but i read somewhere, sometime, that if you slowly cut a tiny hole in the end of the passy that the child will eventually lose interest because they arent getting the sucking sensation they are used to getting. Each week let the hole get bigger and bigger until they cant suck on it at all. Like I said, no personal experience here, just wanted to pass it along. Please let me know if it works though, because i will be needing the help soon.

I know exactly how you feel! My oldest took himself off of the binky when he was about a year old. I was rocking him to sleep and he just took it out of his mouth and tossed it on the floor and never asked for it again. My youngest...totally different story! He was about 2 1/2 years old before I got him off of the binky!
We did it slowly.
First we wouldn't let him have it during the day. Only at nap time and bed time.
Then only at bed time.
The first week of that was pretty rough. He would whine and ask for his "bink bink." I would lay next to him and soothe him until he finally went to sleep, but after about a week, he finally stopped asking for it and just went to sleep on his own.
The key is to be consistant...you can't give in even though it's tempting.
Good luck!

Hi! My little girl is now 7, but when she was 24 months old I had to take the pappy totally altogether away from her. I just told her pappy gone. Yes, she cried and cried and cried and cried, but soon she forgot, at least to the next night. I just had to stick to my guns as much as I hated hearing her cry and told her pappy was gone. Good thing to. The dentist recently told me that if she had been on it any longer her teeth, which are coming in adult and crooked now, would have been much worse.
I guess the only thing I can say is, you have to physic yourself for the crying and just stick to her guns.

We tried several times to take it away and make our little one go cold turkey. She was miserable and so were we. Then we just let her have it at naptime and nighttime. She wasn't allowed to walk around with it or play while it was in her mouth. That was partly a success, but only because I didn't enforce it as I should have. Recently, we couldn't find any and I wouldn't buy any new ones. She went without for a couple of weeks and you could tell she was having pacie withdrawals. She was cranky all the time and restless. We found a pacie in her toy basket one day and she took it and sucked on it for a few minutes and then gave it back to me and said she didn't want it anymore. Did I mention she was THREE when that happened? I always said I would never let any of my children have a pacie that long! But I did. I think that their sucking reflex needs to be met and then they will give it up. My other two didn't take pacies. My oldest sucked his thumb and my middle didn't need anything. It's hard! Good luck!

I was one of the ones who did it gradually, at 13 months I started taking it away at naptime and then within a month I took it away at bedtime too. It worked well for us! Good luck!

It all depends on the child, my 13 year old girl and 18 month boy never took one. My 3 year old boy was chewing on his and putting holes in them by the time he was a year old and we took it from him just after his first birthday. It took a few days to get used to the fact that he didn't have it anymore but he did. My 8 year old on the other hand, there was no getting rid of it. No matter what I did, if she didn't have it, I wouldn't buy it, someone else would (like her granddad). She didn't get rid of it until she was 4 and ready to start Pre-K. That's how long it took us to potty train her too! She was told that if she wanted to start school that she needed to learn to wear big girl panties without having accidents and she could not have a binky at school. The bribe of pullups and binky versus school did the trick but it was really frustrating because she had both for so long. Now the trick we are having to face is potty training two boys. The 3 year old knows how to go but refuses to tell me he does and the 18 month old, I'm hoping he'll just kind of follow Daddy and the 3 year old (once we get him trained). Daddy has been working with them too by letting them come in while he's going so that they will get the picture that they will need to learn to pee standing up anyway, but the 3 year old is so frustrating at times. lol

Hey I have a 19 month old boy with a pacifier he calls a "bonnie". No idea. He will cry all afternoon for it and to the one that will give in, me. I think the only think you can do is to jsut not give it to her or cut a whole in it so it does not work anymore.

I am going to do that when the time comes to take it from my little one.

Hey S., well to be honest I think she is still young enough that it won't hurt her to have her binky at bedtime! If she will take a nap without it then don't give it to her but if she wants it at night well let her have it! I have raised 6 and all of them around 2 (the ones that sucked a binky, some didn't) were ready then to give it up and it was alot easier also! I would just give her some more time with it!! Good Luck, D.

Hello...only had that problem with one of my children around that age!... I am 38 and my youngest is now 9.... the thing we found that worked was disrtaction!....funny huh? well, buy a fish tank, nothing big, ten gal(better if anything to buy the tank the day before ya buy the fish)Setting the tank up will take a day because of the getting the chemicals to settle so the fish don't die...........have a soft light in it...Pet Smart can help you.... take the sweet child to pick out three fish! be sure they are fish that can be in the same tank. Then explain to the child that this is now pappy! I know it sounds corny...When the fish are ready to go in the tank and it's bed time , tell the child " Let's watch the fishies swim and talk about silly things that the fish maybe thinking.... Children listen to everything we say when they are at that age, even though we don't thinks so.

Hello, When my daughter turned 2 we told her that she was going to only have her passy at nap and bed...went fine without it during the day (playing ect..) then after a few weeks of ajusting to that..I started telling her about all the new baby that God is giving our firends and they need a passy when they go to sleep at night and nap time (Because, She is a BIG GIRL)...after telling her this a when I put her down to nap and bed..she started telling us the new little baby's need my passy. Because, I'm a BIG GIRL! We still had our moments of wanting it. That is going to happen! One night she cried for about 24 min. but, stay strong!!

You got to think that's all they know for comfort (since birth) to help them sleep. My daughter also, was give a bunny during all this and now she has to have that to nap and bed time. Good luck!