Help!! Getting Rid of Binkies This Weekend- Looking for Advise

Hi J.,
When your girls get up in the morning just pitch them and never look back! Please make sure you throw all of them away so you don't have that moment of weakness and then have to start over. We did it that way when my daughter was a little under 2 and when she ask for it we just said they were all gone (no lieing they were gone, she didn't need to be mad at us for throwing them out!) It really did talk just a couple days!
Best Wishes!
PS. You might get a special teddy bear for them to sleep with now, that might make things easier.

Pacifier fairy, have them put ALL pacifiers in a bag (one for each girl) and replace the bags with something special (make sure they are all thrown away, no strays). I bet it won't be as bad as you think it will be, your doc is right a couple of days and they should be fine. I have heard pacifiers are really really bad for their mouths and lead to dental problems so the sooner the better! Maybe make sure there is something else that soothes them in their beds, a blanket, a stuffed toy, whatever. Good luck! I think these sort of things are harder on us than on them!

My daughter was 2 when we finally got rid of the bed time binkie. She does much better if she knows what's happening so I started telling her that she was getting to be a big girl and big girls don't have binkies. Pretty soon you're going to have to give it up. Drop several reminders. One night I was telling her again that big girls don't have binkies, she took 2 sucks and handed it to me, "Cecelia big girl". That was it. No drama. I do know that I'm really lucky for it to be that easy.

My contingent approach was going to be that we have to send them to the new babies at the hospital that need them more than you and fake mail them away.

Good Luck!
Jenny

If they only use them for comfort, what's the hurry? My kids didn't use pacifiers, but I would have been happy if they had. I didn't have a problem with them having blankies, which is sort of the same thing, I think.

Anyway, whenever any toy or other item gets "disappeared" at our house I usually say that I don't know where it is, or it must be lost, or we'll look for it tomorrow until they forget about it. (that sounds kind of bad now that I write it out! but I haven't gotten rid of anything they really love or anything - they seem to forget pretty quickly.)

Check out this recent request - lots of good ideas!

http://www.mamasource.com/request/recent/60655/1238712849/16

When we ditched my 2 year olds pacifiers, I had basically just had enough of them! I cut the nibs off of them, and then showed them to her. I said they were broken; she looked a bit crestfallen but I let her check them out and really see how broken they were. Then we threw them in the trash together. I think it helped for her to see they were broken and therefore needed to be thrown out. We had a few rough naps and bedtimes for maybe 4-5 days, but after that she was fine. I'd lay her down and she'd just say, Broken! and I knew what she was thinking. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but like your kids, she only used them at naps and bedtimes.
You can do it!