break the binky habit
By ktmay1
@ktmay1 (22)
United States
May 17, 2007 1:49pm CST
so, i have a nearly-three-year-old and we're trying to break the binky habit. you'd think i was taking a limb away the way he screams about it.
he won't nap. which is making me crazy because it's my only time to myself to get things done (or nap myself--i'm 5 mos. pregnant).
did you go through this?? got any sage advice to pass on? i've heard about the binky fairy and cutting the tops off, but we're trying the approach of phasing it out. he only ever had it in the car and at sleep and "rest" times. (he sometimes "rests" in his room with music and a binky and books.)
so, first we took it out of the car, then he stopped using at rest time and now we're trying to phase it out of naps.
it's way hard.
so, pass the wisdom if you have it!
thanks!
2 responses
@MrsWickham1 (464)
• United States
17 May 07
My daughter never liked the binky, but as soon as she got teeth we pretty much got rid of her bottle. But what I would have done is just throw them away and never speak of it. But you do need your rest, see if tehre is something else that he can use as comfort. That is what the binky is for him comforting. Sorry it is not much, but maybe you will get some kind of idea.
@6in12years (305)
• United States
17 May 07
Is it a huge deal that he stop using it now? It's his comfort object, and 3yos often still need a comfort object (my 3rd son had a horrid blanket, and at 3 he still had to have it to sleep). I think I might let him have it at night and naptime, but let him know that he's getting big enough not to need his binky all the time, so he needs to keep it at home. Especially with your pregnancy-you have less energy to deal with the fight, and he may be more stressed about the little one to come.
