I went through a hard time with my youngest son just last week. He is 2 1/2 years old, and has always been addicted to his paci. Our doctor told us that we should take it away, plus we knew he was getting to old for it, but the problem is we did not want to hurt him because he loved it so, but last Monday, we just took it away. He cried off and on the whole day for it. The next day, he asked for it once, but we never gave in. On day 3, he did not even mention it, and he has been paci free for about 5 or 6 days now. Good luck to you.

My daughter was 18 months when I took her off the pacifier completely. She only wanted it for night time, so at first I only gave it to her at bed time and then in the morning I would take it away from her, well that went on for a week, and then I told her that she is a big girl and she didn't need it anymore. The first night w/o it was horrible getting her to sleep, but, she was fine after that. So my suggestion is, just tell her she is a big girl and take it from her. She will get used to not having it.

wow i wish i could give advice but my 13 month old son is attached to the thing if i take one away he goes and finds anotha its like he has serect stashes around the house if you find something that works please let me know

We let my daughter use her two pacys to "buy" something. She always had to have two of them, one pink and one orange, to go to bed at night. What we did was we told her that she could pick out any toy at wal mart, but she had to leave her pacys there in it's place. When she picked out her toy, she put them on the shelf and never looked back. (Of course I grabbed them and stashed them in my purse) She asked for them that night, but when I reminded her that we bought her toy with them, she never mentioned it again. However, she got very sick about 3 months after that, which was about 2 weeks ago, and we brought them back out... big mistake I know. But now she says she is going to leave them for Santa to give to a brand new baby for Christmas. So maybe that could be something you could try since it is so close to Chrismas, if not, maybe the toy/pacy exchange would work. Good Luck!

i have 3 young children my son never took one that god!!! My girls lived for theirs. My 2 1/2 year old and my 20 month old fought ever step of the way I was so afriad they were going to have to take it to school. But a friend of mine (who also has a 2 year old) called me so upset one day because she couldn't get her daughters from her either. So we decided to have a bye-bye Ginki(paci) party. The thought of a party excited all 3 girls. We took them to the store let them pick out the balloons and decorations. No they did not match at all but it didn't matter the girls were having a ball. We had cake and ice cream and everything. The day was going great not one time did they ask for it. After we got everything cleaned up and then gave all 3 a bath. We took the ballons outside and tied all their ginki's (paci) to it and handed each girl the ballon they picked out with there ginki's on it and then let them go.They sent them to the Ginki Fairy. They were so excited they walked around the next 20 mintues talking about being big girls. Bedtime came they asked for it, then we reminded them they sent them to the ginki fairy in the sky. After about 30 minutes of crying and asking the ginki fairy to send them back all 3 girls were asleep and asked for it once the next night we again reminded them what they did with their ginkis and they fell asleep with no problem. But yes the first night is the worse then it will get better. I hope this helps it was the best advice anyone every gave me.

Yeah, my youngest son was way "sucky"obsessed, I was told by his dentist that his pacifier was beggninng to effect the bones in his jaw(very common in kid's who use pacifiers)I'm sure he tells all his parents that but it kinda worried me so I just stopped offering it to him, he eventually only used it for naps and bed, I kept telling him that his pacifier was yucky and played a game with him, he'd try to give it to me and I'd act disgusted,he has an older brother that helped to, I told him we needed to give it to the trash man, I kept it from him for one night when he was going to sleep, it was a fight to get him to go to sleep and he finally did and he hasn't had it since! I had to go through the entire house and get rid of any pacifier anywhere, I mean I had to go through everywhere, kids do stash them, they still occasionally pop up and I tell him "eww yucky throw that away"when he finds one, he thinks it's a game now. I'm waiting to see whether it wa sa positive move because I am having another baby, and I'm sure that my son will be trying to throw away her pacifiers, we'll see

I was fortunate because my 22 month old son just lost interest in it. He hasn't had one for about 3 weeks now. I have heard of people tying them to balloons and letting them go, explaining that they are going to help little babies who need them. My sister simply told her daughter that they are yucky and that's all it took for her. At 15 months I'm not sure how well she would understand the balloon thing, but it just might work. Good luck!

I'm pretty surprised how important this many people seem to believe it is to completely eliminate the pacifier. If a child were to use it nonstop all day long, I could see how it would interfere with speech development and physical development of the teeth and mouth.

Only using it to fall asleep is a pretty small amount of the time compared to the rest of the day (and night after it falls out of their mouths). My 26-month-old son has used a pacifier only for "sleepytime" since he was a year and has no problems whatsoever in his development. He's beginning to lose interest without a battle, and I think he'll quit using it on his own.

Young toddlers often need comfort objects to feel secure. Please ask yourself why it's so important to take that away from a child who is still quite young.

Thanks for this post! My daughter is 22 months and she ONLY gets her paci at nap time and bed time only! But I've been worried also thinking, when do I take it away? I also need to think about stopping her bottle I guess...? She gets one at nap time and bed time also! :-0

u and her put all her pacifiers in a stocking and tell her santa will take her dumies n leave presents, thats what were doing at christmas with alfie, it is hard 4 a cuple of days apparently but its worked great for all my friends, just keep distracting her with the toys from santa