Child-Led Weaning

"Chookie" wrote in message
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LOL! DS does this (but he isn't as old as Brigitte of course)!

What is it with this Monkey-See-Monkey-Do thing?

Do they ever outgrow it??

Charlotte

Patty asked about my incentives for weaning a preschooler.

With Will, he had been obsessed with drums for over a year already--if obsessed
is a strong enough word. So I took him to the local music store and showed him
a half-size drumset which of course he fell in love with. I then informed him
that the drums were for "big boys" and big boys did not have nummies. When he
was ready to be a "big boy," he could have the drums but that meant that he
would be all through with nummies. I repeated this to him often over the
course of the next few weeks. One afternoon, Will got up from nursing and as
he walked away said, "I'm a big boy now." He never asked again. We got the
drums the next day.

Matthew was and is our sports fanatic. So we showed him a pretty good-sized
child's basketball hoop on a stand and went through the same routine. He had a
much harder time deciding to be a "big boy," but did so eventually with much
encouragement and we brought the hoop home. Afterwards he still wanted to
nurse, and I told him that we would have to take the hoop back to the store if
he had nummies because it was only for big boys--this was usually persuasive.
The one time he was most insistent, I offered him some expressed breastmilk in
a cup. He tasted it, made a face, informed me it was "yucky" and never asked
again.

Mary Ellen
William (8)
Matthew (6)
Margaret (nearly 2!)

"Charlotte M." wrote in message
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"Chookie" wrote in message
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LOL! DS does this (but he isn't as old as Brigitte of course)!

What is it with this Monkey-See-Monkey-Do thing?

Do they ever outgrow it??

Charlotte


my dh hasn't yet... all his friends had pickup trucks... we now have a
pickup truck...
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Edith
oht nak