Dummy,How to get rid/reduce?

liney

One night just before Christmas we 'lost' it. Couldnt find it anywhere ! Well he cryed for abit then went to sleep. The next night he was asleep within half an hour and the third night straight away.

Occassionally, when i make comment about him being a big boy and using the loo or potty he will say something like, 'but if i was a baby again i could have a dummy'. Bless.

To be honest through at 5 years old i really think he is old enough to understand that dummys are for babies and he shouldn't have one anymore.

Does he go to the dentist ? Perhaps the dentist could tell him he shouldnt have it anymore, and how it will make his teeth poorly.

Sharra

My son had his till he was 5. We tried waiting for him to make the decision to give it up but it wasn't going to happen. In the end we swapped it for a Nintendo 64 (was a few years ago). He'd been on and on for ages about having one and we been telling him he wasn't old enough. When it came to biting the bullet and getting rid of the dummy we said that if he was old enough to give up his dummy, we would know he was old enough to have a N64. So I went home with the console and we swapped it for his dummies.
Expensive but we didn't even have a single tear!

inkie

We did cold turkey - when Christmas presents came the dummy went. Didn't have any problems though.

absolutebounder

inkie wrote: »

We did cold turkey - when Christmas presents came the dummy went. Didn't have any problems though.

I suppose cold turkey is rather easy at christmas or at least boxing day

trish06

TAG wrote: »

I had this with DD2. She was 4 at Christmas and was still having a bottle :eek: plus a dummy. :eek:

Anyway, we told her that Father Christmas was going to swap her bottle for presents. Which, with all the excitment over Christmas she accepted and we had no problems. :T

So we decided to do the same at Easter with the dummies. Had to do a massive 'dummy hunt' as we had aquired quite a few.

Because she knew that the Easter Bunny was going to swap them for Easter Eggs she more or less had one welded to her mouth permanatley for the week before Easter.

The Easter Bunny duly swapped them for LOTS of eggs. She did ask a day or two later when was the Easter Bunny going to give them back. But I told her that he'd given them to all the poor child that didn't have enough dummies. Which thankfully she accepted and has never asked again.

Now I know that Christmas and Easter are ages away yet but maybe you could coincide it with a birthday or going on holiday?

Hope that helps a bit!

i did the same with my 2 daughters
one was 3yrs old and the other was 2 year old
because i was taking the dummy from my 3year old,i also had to do it with the 2 year old,as this would never off worked,they are 12yrs and 13yrs old now
it was xmas time and santa was due,i told the girls about the dummys and
that santa would swop them for lots of lovely toys
i could not believe how it worked,we had a few tears at bedtime,so i just reminded them,if they had there dummys back santa would come back for all the lovely toys it worked

crockpot

DS was not happy when he came home from school, but seemed to accept it!

Hubbie thought I was being mean! But did admit that his dad made him spit his into the fire on his forst day of school!!!

There has been some moaning, and I have offered him treats/presents in exchange for each dummy- but a no go.

He does go to the dentist and is infact due a visit at half term, so will have a quite word with the dentist first.

When Ds came home from school tonight he rang upstairs to his bedroom for a quick suck and said I was mean for not letting him have it downstairs, don`t know what he would think if he saw this thread.

Thanks for all your hints and tips

Nicki

Don't know if this helps but my friend's little girl had her dummy until she was about 4. My friend gave each dummy a value, and told her child that she could use them to buy a toy. It took a few trips to the toy shop before the child spotted something she had to have, but when she did, she happily trotted off the cash desk and paid the teller in her dummies and walked out with her new toy. (dad had primed the teller that this was what was happening, and doubled back to pay for the toy in cash when the child wasn't paying attention!) Worked both as a maths lesson and in getting child to give up voluntarily (the key I think was not pushing until the child saw what she wanted more than the dummy, then seizing the chance)

Rachie_B

crockpot wrote: »

DS was not happy when he came home from school, but seemed to accept it!

Hubbie thought I was being mean! But did admit that his dad made him spit his into the fire on his forst day of school!!!

There has been some moaning, and I have offered him treats/presents in exchange for each dummy- but a no go.

He does go to the dentist and is infact due a visit at half term, so will have a quite word with the dentist first.

When Ds came home from school tonight he rang upstairs to his bedroom for a quick suck and said I was mean for not letting him have it downstairs, don`t know what he would think if he saw this thread.

Thanks for all your hints and tips

:eek: i find that very weird in a school age child TBH !

and your hubby isnt helping by not backing you up :rolleyes:

nats3006

i dont find it weird every child is different mine still has one at 3 yes i want him off it but he will only have it for bed and if he asks during the day i manage to say things like oh look at that car or anything just to take his mind off it! please bear in mind we are talking about a child here not an animal saying he is weird not weird just likes his dummy, yes op wants advice but not for someone to tell her that her son is weird he is a child !!!!!!!!!

Unknown1234_2

nats3006 wrote: »

saying he is weird not weird just likes his dummy, yes op wants advice but not for someone to tell her that her son is weird he is a child !!!!!!!!!

The op did not say the child was weird!

The behaviour she said was weird she even said that she found it weird, not everyone.

I do think you animal remarks and !!!!!!!!! it totally over the top.