Taking Away Pacifier Tips 2Yr Old Boy

Some kids need to suck longer than others. I am not so big on taking it if they are using it only for nap and bedtime if it is still a big deal to them. Some kids are 'babies' longer than others and I don't mean that in an unkind way. If you feel it has to go then let him suck on blankets and hope he won't go to the thumb which is much harder to break.

One thing you can do is poke a hole in it.... it looses the suction, and the kids don't like it then....

They give it up themselves that way. And yes, if kids have an oral sensory need, or some other sensory need, he may very well find something else to suck on instead!

Obviously he needs to suck. If you insist on taking his item he sucks he will find something more rewarding than a blanket. He will start sucking his fingers or thumb. Let the child have his binky until he doesn't need it anymore. He will stop using it on his own.

My guy stopped using his at 13 months cold turkey, his pediatrician said that is the fairest to children, no "teasing" by getting it sometimes but not others. He was done with it (and the bottle at the same time) in 3 days. And, yes, they sometimes will then suck on a lovie or blanket.

So great that you asked this question tonight! We bit the bullet and decided that tonight was the night to stop the binkie. We've been talking to her about it for a couple weeks though. We told her that soon we are going to have to give the binkies to the little babies and that she is a big girl now (I can't hardly stand calling her a big girl at 2 1/2 yo because she is my last and will ALWAYS be my little baby...but I digress) and she doesn't need it anymore. So bedtime comes and I've already gathered all the binkies and put them up and she starts looking for them (there were usually several sprinkled around her crib) and asking where they were. I simply told her that we gave them to the little babies and they were all gone. No more binkies. I expected an arguement but nothing! She just said OK and crawled up under her blankets and went to sleep. YAY! So glad that is done and over with!

Good luck with your little guy. Maybe you can talk to him about it for the next week and let it roll around in his head before you just go cold turkey on him.

We did it just before my son turned two. I cut the tip and gave him the pacifier. He couldnt even hold in his mouth becoz I cut it really short. I told him he can hold it in his hand and sleep. Next day I asked him to put it under his pillow and sleep. After two days I gave him a new toy to put under the pillow. Pacifier was forgotten!! I cannot belive I was able to do it in less than a week. Goodluck :)

Yes, he's close to giving it up for good. Just keep doing what you're doing. Use some sort of incentive to help him along. Good luck!

Our boys only used their nuks during nap and bed after a year old (unless they were sick, then the rules broke a bit). A few weeks before they turned 3 we told them they were too old and they would have to be big boys. My older son chewed through his and had to throw them out when they broke. When he got to the last one, my husband told him it was the last and he threw it out right then. Done.
We started the same way with the younger one. He told us he was going to stay a baby to be able to keep it. My sister-in-law was due to have a baby around Declan's 3rd birthday. We told him we could give them to the new baby. So for weeks he was told this. On his 3rd birthday we found a fancy baby bag and put all the nuks in it and put it on a shelf. Anytime we left him alone, he found the bag and sat with all the nuks, but he didnt have them when he slept. A week later the new baby was born. We took the boys to the hospital to meet their cousin and Declan took his nuks. He gave the bag to the baby and tried very hard to put them in her mouth. For awhile afterward he would make comments about not wanting to be a big boy and he would stare longingly at them, but he came around.
So I guess this is one time I warned and prepared my kids for something and it pretty much worked.
Good luck!

Thank goodness, my son gave his "sucker" up on his own at the age of 2.5 yrs. One of his split on the end, so we showed it to him, told him it was broken and had to be thrown away (which we let him do so he would remember it went into the trash). We simply hid the others in a drawer. I guess he thought if one was broken, all of them were broken. In your case, maybe one of your son's pacifiers could "mysteriously" get a split.
Good luck.