No More 'Nook-y'

We used the "bottle fairy" trick to get rid of the bottle. Maybe it would work for the pacifier? We packed up all of the bottles in a shoebox and left them out overnight. The next day the box was gone and in its place the "bottle fairy" had left a new engine for my son's Thomas the Train wooden train set. It might help to decrease/limit her use before you get to that point though. Maybe try to get her down to just using it at bedtime? When we did the bottle fairy thing he was down to just a bottle at bedtime.

I wouldn't recommend having the child throw it out the car window as apparently some people do. It's doesn't sound like a good thing to teach children (that it's o.k. to throw things out of car windows), and on the remote chance you get caught it could be a very large fine for littering.

We never used one either, but I have known people who suggest to the child to throw it out the car window- and then it's done and gone- it worked. Others have allowed the child to keep it WAY beyond what I think is normal. Good luck

We just went through this over New Year's weekend! We are expecting baby #2 in April, so we asked our oldest to give a nook each night to his baby brother. When they were all piled up for his baby brother, we wrapped them up and put them by his Christmas stocking for Santa to take. In return, he got a little treat the next morning :) He cried the 1st night and it took him several hours to fall asleep, no crying or asking for it the second night and it took about an hour to fall asleep, no crying or asking for it the third night and it took about 1/2 hour to fall asleep. Very successful! My sis-in-law used the Santa ploy as well, but just said that Santa needed them to give to babies around the world whose parents can't buy nooks. You could ease into it and try the Easter bunny or something :)

When my daughter switched from the infant room to a toddler room at her daycare, we quit letting her have the paci at daycare. She didn't have a problem with it. She had it in the car & at home. Then, around her 2nd birthday, we went on a family snow ski trip. We were always pretty good about keeping up with 1 paci at a time, so I only took 1. Well the first night there, she lost it! We all searched & searched the whole trip (4 days) and never found it! She already knew what "all gone" meant, so when she asked for it I kept telling her she lost it, and it was "all gone". She did fine. Once we got home I threw out the rest of the paci's in the house. I think she quit asking about it after maybe a week.

We started with just limiting it to bed time and then it just magically disappeared (into our son's top drawer and he couldnt' see it). It took maybe a week but then it was gone.

thats a tough one because every kid is different. I do daycare and have seen many ways to tackle this one. :)
I think most important is she won't go to kindergarten with it, so dont get too stressed out. try having it JUST for in her bed, she can only have it once she is in her jammies, just plain take it away and tell her its broken, as they get sticky and gross have her throw them away, cut off the tip, tell her that once she turns 2 1/2 she is just too old....have a goodbye party for it!

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IANAD (i am not a doctor), so make sure you consult with one before using "Thum" on the passah http://www.medshopexpress.com/502742.html
but I think it's harmless.

My girls were just the same-first one never took to it, and the second one wouldn't give it up. She was two when we put them all in a special "nukkie" bag and took them to our local animal sanctuary, giving them to the lady behind the counter for all of the sick baby animals. When we walked in an I explained to my daughter what we were doing, the lady caught on right away and was more than happy to help! My daughter was so happy to help all of the baby animals, and she received a little stuffed animal for being such a good girl. She did ask for her nukkie a couple times and I reminded her that we gave them to the baby animals and offered her "Stuffie" (her new stuffed animal) instead.

Super Nannie did something like this, the child made a special envelope and mailed all of the nukkies to the Nukkie Fairy. The child actually placed the envelope in the mailbox and was left a special book or something in return. I think the important thing is to make it a very special event, a celebration of becoming a big kid. Good luck!!

You could try what we did. Although, with our son, he needed it for security and self-soothing, so maybe your situation is different.

We established a rule that the nookies (yep, that's what he called them!) could only be in his bedroom. If he wanted one, he had to go sit in his bed. That helped him cut down, so we didn't bring them with us when we left the house.

When he turned four, the nookie fairy came and took his nookies for little kids who needed them, and left a gift in their place.

Good luck!

Limit it to bed. I went through a long weekend of H*ll to get rid of it....bit it did the trick. A friend of mine recently had a baby. What they did was told their daughter (big sister)that her baby brother will now need it . She gave it up without a wimper. Any friends or relatives having kids soon??

I have three kids and for all three, we cut them off cold-turkey. There were plenty of times that I wanted to cave in and give it to them but within a week or less, they no longer needed it.

We too started limiting the usage of the pacifier ie: only at bedtime. We would explain that they are only used when they would go to sleep. They (we have twins) would need to give it to us and together we would put it in a shoe box tote on their dresser. After that step, we gave ALL of their nuks to a friend who had a newborn baby. We talked about it with them for a month on what we were going to do. When the day came they each got to put their nuks (I made sure to find them all) in their own gift bags and were able to hand the gift bags over to the new baby. The ride home from the friends house didn't very well as we decided to give one last reminder that we gave the new baby our nuks BUT the naps and bedtime thereafter did not result in the hysterical screaming that I had envisioned. The first night they wimpered a little during our bedtime routine and the 2 days/nights after they only asked for it and again we reiterated what we did with their nuks and that they were big boys and girls, etc.
I too asked for advice here on Mamasource with help giving up the pacifiers. I tried to copy and paste my initial inquiry from March 26, 2009 titled Help! How to Quit the Nuk? as you may find some other helpful suggestions. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to link my request. I received 32 great responses and I loved reading them all and chose one that fit well for us. Good Luck on whatever method you decide to do!

With my oldest we started limiting it to nap and bedtimes or when she was sickly and then we built up anticipation for the "nuk fairy" to come...she had to put the nuk under her pillow herself and then the nuk fairy would take it away while she slept and leave her a surprise for being such a big girl.
It really worked because we talked to her about it for a week or so first and got her excited and the fairy got her something cute and fun and little to show how proud of her she was.
Hope this helps!!

We only let our daughter have it for naps and bedtime, never for just walking around. I'd start with that, and then in a month or two just take it away when she's not looking (we "lost" hers- and after 3 days she didn't even miss it or look for it). She'll probably never get to the point where she wants to give it up, but when you think it's time, just get rid of it- she'll probably do better than you think. I didn't want our daughter to have it after she turned 2, so I weaned her then.

We just got rid of our sons nook about three weeks ago. He lost it somewhere in the house and we were not able to find it. The first couple of nights were hard to deal with but by the third night he didnt ask for it at all. You can try it that way or you can tell her that she needs to leave it under her pillow and that the only time that she can have it is at nap time or bed time. Do that for a while and then tell her that she can only have it at bed time. It may take some time but it has worked with my children. Best of luck to you.

I had read that cutting off the tip of the pacifier worked but wasn't really sure I was ready to do that. But one day I noticed her pacifier had a rip in the tip and I couldn't let her use it like that so I cut off the end. She didn't like it like that and gave it up. I also told her that we had to send all the other pacifiers around the house to a baby that needed them. And I got rid of them.
Another trick that I heard but didn't do, was to take the pacifier to build a bear and have them put it in a bear, so the child can still have it but not be able to use it anymore!

First, I'd restrict it to only allowing her to have it in her bed. (Even if she wants to have a little "passah break" during the day at first) Do not let her have it all the time, walking round and playing with it in her mouth. Try to get it to the point where she only has it at bedtime and naptime.

Then, do you know someone expecting a new baby? We packed my daughter's up and "mailed" them to her new baby cousin, who needed them more than her. I had a friend who snipped the end off of her son's and then a little more each week and that seemed to work for them.

We have a three year old. We told our daughter that there are not enough passies for all the babies in the world so since she is getting to be a big girl she needs to give her passies to the babies. We narrowed it down to her just having it at night & naps first. Then once in awhile we would let her take a passie and put it away in a box for the babies. Finally there were no passies left. It took about a week or two with no passie at night for her to adjust.

My daughter is 3 and I still let her have it at night. I took it away for naps and other times. I just explained to her that it was time she only used it at night and we gave it to Santa last year and she got a present for it. never a peep. But let her have it at night if it comforts her, what does it hurt?

My daughter turned four in November and we got rid of her's sometime in 2009. It wasn't really something that bothered me, it was an easy way to get her to calm down (still if she's hysterical about something or really hurt or sick)and at that point she wasn't really taking one out of the house. One night I could only have one, so I gave it to her baby sister and announced that the binky fairy must have come and taken them. I've always been of the mind that you never see a kid graduate with a binky...and as long as you are making her take it out of her mouth to talk to you and it isn't causing any dental issues I would leave well enough alone. Now if you really would like to rid her of it - make sure she has another security option, blanky, bear etc..and talk to her about the binky fairy who comes to take binkies from big girls to give them to new babies. This works well if there is a new baby somewhere in the extended family. I am going to work on potty training my 29 month old though before I worry about her bink. Good luck!