A while ago I thought it would be impossible for my twenty-six-month-old daughter I will leave the pacifier someday.
But since everything arrives sooner or later, the day also arrived when the pacifier stopped being something fundamental for her, although to tell the truth it was later than I would have liked.
The solution was somewhat drastic but it worked. Do not be scared! We have not put a cactus in his pacifier. But almost.
One day we decided to cut off the nipple of the pacifier, after warning that this would happen if I did not leave it for good, since it was impossible to make it happen.
Although the surprise to find his "mutilated" pacifier was somewhat traumatic, every time he asked for it we gave him his pacifier. But of course, it was not the same. And so the days passed and his half pacifier ceased to interest him, although he asked to sleep. Little by little he got used to going to bed without him and several days ago he was abandoned in some corner of the house with his head cut off.
Another good idea, something more pedagogical, is to give the pacifier to a loved one who must keep it at home as a treasure. So, every time the child visits you, know that your dear pacifier is in custody in good hands.
Another, if you see that your child is prepared, is to make him understand that he is older to use a pacifier, that it is a small baby thing and that it was time to throw it away. And so, that he says goodbye to his pacifier and leave it in the garbage can.
If none of these options go to you, you can go to a community site where you can leave it forever, a kind of pacifier cemetery as happens in Sweden with “the pacifier tree” where children have hung for over thirty years 12,000 pacifiers
Maybe, you can do the same thing but in a tree or in the place of your home that the child chooses.
Photos via | Daddytypes.com On Babies and more | When a pacifier is removed
