What age were your children when you took the dummy away?

I was really lucky with my two boys. My first one didnt really take and by the time he was 3 weeks old, he never had it any more. He would just spit it out. My youngest only had it for about 3 days and showed no interest in it at all. He would gag on it.

I am thinking that we are talking about pacifiers, right? I have never heard the term dummy before. My 1st child had one for only about 2 months. He didn't take it too well, so we stopped using it. My second child loved it. He was 2 1/2 and it was his security. He took it everywhere. I would not let him take it in public, but he did use it in the car. One day he decided to make a game of throwing it at me when i was driving, so I told him I would throw it out the window if he did it again. He threw it again, and I pretended to throw it out the window. He went threw a huge crying fit for hours. I figured I had already taken it away, so might as well not give it back. For 2 weeks he asked for another one. I didn't give in. My 3rd and 4th never had them past 6 months because of the hard time my 2nd had giving his up.

Luckily I never had the problem of taking them off a dummy/pacifier because none of them were ever really interested and while I used them very briefly in the beginning, I quit offering it to them. Now... if you asked what age they were when I took their bottles away... that's a whole different story... :(

My son never really sucked on the right end of them. He would practice putting them in his mouth when he was really young. But he always bit on the handle instead. He also thought they were good objects to practice throwing at the dogs. I think we finally found the last ones that he had thrown around when he was about 9-10 months old and put them away. He never noticed, though.

I'm hoping to take it away from him before he turns three. He just turned two and now he has rules about when he can have it. If he wants his soother he has to be in his bed. This has kept him from getting it during the day because he thinks he's too old for a nap. Now I have to figure out how to get him to stop wanting it. When we try to put him to bed without it he cries. Fortunately, my daughter wants nothing to do with a pacifier.

my son is 18 months old and he loves his dummy. i dont know how im going to get it off him he has it most of the time and i think its affecting his talking because he doesnt really try to talk much when hes got the dummy in.

I really didn't take it away but at 6 months he just stopped wanting it. He had just cut 4 teeth and was finally happy not to chew on something all the time. So I threw them all out and was thankful that was all done and over with!

I think all of my kids were around the same age, I think they were about 8 months old. We were the same as you, if we knew how easy it was going to be, we would have done it earlier too.