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Old April 27th 04, 09:04 PM
Robyn Kozierok
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Default Indestructable Bite-Proof Pacifiers?? Desperate request!

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Beth Kevles wrote:

Rather than fnding new pacifiers, have you considered having the
"pacifier fairy" come to take them all away? One came to our house (the
kids were slightly older, 3 1/2) and gave all the pacifiers to "new
babies who didn't have any". The fairy left a gift for each of my kids
in place of the pacifiers.


I did this for my older son who used pacifiers (one did, one didn't).
But after introducing the story, it took several weeks before he was
ready to leave all his pacifiers for the fairy to come take away.
I think we need his buy-in in order for this to work, and we don't
have it yet.

THe point is, at the age of three you should be able to come up with a
rationale that your child will accept for the removal of the pacifier.
(DON'T make your child feel as though it's his FAULT, of course. Just
make it a part of growing up, like throwing away outgrown shoes.) ANd
chewing up pacifiers IS dangerous, so you've got incentive to force this
particular issue.


He's really resisting "growing up" these days. So, I don't want to link
growing up with losing his comforts. But "they're all broken" is a start
on a more acceptable rationale. We are working on it. But I'd love to
buy a few pacifiers that will last a few weeks in the interim... The
brand we were using no longer exists, and like I said, the replacements
I tried this week were really weak.

Mam's website says that latex is more bite-resistant than silicone. So
that will be my next purchase, I guess...

Thanks,

Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)
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