needing a little motherly advice here...

lately i have been thinking a lot about tucker and his binkie.  that's right folks, he still has his binkie at 17 months.  i have no idea if it is a good or a bad thing, but it is what it is.  i need some advice.  maybe i just have my own issues with it.  i hate the binkie.  i hate when kids try to talk with one in their mouth.  ergh.  i have no idea why i have let tucker have his as long as i have.  i think it is because it has magical powers. 

of you who are mom's reading this, when and how did you get rid of your child's pacifier?  i know people who get their child off them before the age of one, but i also know people who still let their two-year-old's have them.  is it different for everyone?  i've read article's like this a lot, trying to figure out what the best way and when the best time would be to take it away.  oh, maybe i shouldn't worry about it so much. 

i lost my binkie in mexico.  i wasn't even a year old and my parents drove to mexico in the ol' firebird.  while we were there, i lost it and never looked back.  they didn't think so at the time, but how lucky were they?  :)

Comments

[Jaime Cox]

Some days I envy the parent who's kid will take a pacifier. My kids wouldn't and when they cry and whine, there's no binkie to give them. I have no story of weening the binkie. But, I've had to ween a few other things. All I know through the whole experience, is that after 3 CONSISTANT days, the storm breaks. So if cold turkey ends up being your plan, hold out and you may see that day 3 has magical powers:)Good luck to ya sista....

[Tucker's Gram]

honey i have to comment here. while in mexico and you were in your little handy dandy unbrella stroller as we called them, shopping the shops where we swore we seen a laid out dog in a meat store window, issshhhh, but anyway in one of the stores you dropped your best friend the binky and it is the one and only binky you had. it was the one and only, well we shopped and noticied you LOST IT,,, oh my god we pannicked and searched all the stores till we found it. and we did find it on a dirty store floor in mexico. we disinfected it and it was once again your best friend. shortly after that trip the sucky end of your binky rotted and fell off, i laugh as i write this. yes it rotted and fell off. you would not take to another binky of any kind and that was the end of the binky forever.................i wish we would have left it on that dirty floor in mexico.
my suggestion for tucker is to start to give it only at naps and bed time. then only at bed time, then take it away forever. good luck. i guess you could always take him to mexico and loose it there, he,he,he. love you.......good luck!

[jessica]

i have to comment on this one too. james had his til he was juuuuuust about 2. maybe i was lazy, maybe i didn't really care. i don't remember as it was nearly 7 years ago *gasp*. but i do remember that my cousin had a baby and james was old enough to "give" the paci to the baby because he "needed" it. end of story. cold turkey. i guess he was just ready.

[Leah]

I hear ya! Colton still sucks his thumb at night and he's 5!! Brett is a pacifier kid and only has it at night, but we're thinking of cutting him off. Fortunately, I don't think he'll care except for the fact that he likes to chuck it across the room for excitement. My opinion - start working on it now - a little each day to the point he forgets about it. Nothing like watching a 3 year old with a pacifier. That's just weird. Again - totally my opinion.

[Mel]

I never had one, see how much I was loved?