Before I became a mom, I swore to myself never to give pacifier to my children.
It was against my principles, I didn't want my baby to have that piece of plastic permanently in his mouth. Yes, but that was before!
Since then, the realities of motherhood have caught up with me and I've learned that you often have to come to terms with your beliefs when you're a parent.
Anyway, if, like me, you have given your child a pacifier and the toddler, who is now 3 years old or more, no longer wants to part with it, you will love what follows.
I have unearthed 5 effective tips for you to help your child stop using the pacifier.
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, take it easy.
The first step that I suggest is to let your child fall asleep with his pacifier, then 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 this.
Moreover, discussion is the basis of successful weaning. For your toddler to agree to leave his pacifier, you must help him realize that he has grown up and that he is no longer a baby .
He will eventually realize that the pacifier is a toddler object and will then give it up on his own (but this process can take a while!).
I don't know how it is with your children, but mine carries around with three pacifiers... It was the solution we 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 wears out, we won't buy a new one.
If you have a fertile imagination, you can try to invent a story in which your child plays the main role and ends up separating 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 him 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!
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 this type of story to your child regularly in the evening, at bedtime, and it may make him want to imitate the heroes of these books and, finally, stop taking his pacifier!
And you, do you have any other tips for removing the pacifier? Feel free to tell us about your experiences in the comments.
