5 Effective Tips to Help Your Child Stop the Pacifier.
Before becoming a mother, I swore to myself never to give my children a pacifier.
It was against my principles, I didn't want my baby to have this piece of plastic all the time in his mouth. Yes but that was before!
Since then, the realities of motherhood have caught up with me and I have learned that you often have to come to terms with your convictions when you are a parent.
Anyway, if, like me, you gave your child a pacifier and the toddler, who is now 3 years or older, does not want to part with it, you will love the following.
I have indeed found 5 effective tips to help your child stop the pacifier.
1. Remove the pacifier at night
We agree, you are not going to tear the pacifier out of your child's mouth and throw it in the trash. Too brutal as a method. No, you have to take it step by step, do things smoothly.
The first step that I suggest is to let your child fall asleep with his pacifier, then to come and remove it from his bed when you go to bed.
Of course, don't put him in front of a fait accompli and explain to him before you are going to do so.
2. Chat with your child
Moreover, discussion is the basis for successful weaning. In order for your toddler to accept leaving his pacifier, you must help him realize that he has grown up and thathe is no longer a baby.
He will eventually realize that the pacifier is something for toddlers and then abandon it on his own (but this process can take a while!).
3. No more spare pacifiers!
I don't know how it goes with your children, but mine is carried around with three pacifiers ... It was the solution we had found at the time to avoid getting up ten times a night!
So certainly, it was an ingenious solution, but it always ends up turning against the parents: instead of being addicted to a single pacifier, the child can no longer sleep if he does not have three around. him.
From now on, explain to your child that there will only be 1 pacifier in the bed. And that when a pacifier is worn out, we will not buy a new one.
4. Make up a story to give up the pacifier
If you have a fertile imagination, you can try to make up a story in which your child takes the lead and ends up parting from his pacifier like a grown-up.
For example, tell him that you are walking in the forest and a bird comes to perch on his shoulder to ask for his pacifier, which he would like to give to his baby bird.
No doubt your child will be delighted to have contributed to the happiness of a little bird!
5. Read him books on the subject
Publishing houses support parents in this fight against the pacifier, because books on the subject are legion.
I myself bought a few weeks ago, several books to encourage my loulou to let go of his pacifier, like this one "The pacifier, it's over" (Amazon link).
Read your child such a story regularly at night, at bedtime, and it might make them want to emulate the heroes in these books and finally stop taking their pacifier!
And you, do you have any other tips for removing the pacifier? Do not hesitate to tell us about your experiences in the comments.
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