Max will be 3 years next month and it's taken us all this time to finally get rid of his pacifier.
I used to judge those little kids that where to big for a pacifier and I NEVER though my kid would be one of those. Now that I've gone through this whole procedure, I judge who judges. hahaha. JK!
(I really don't judge but it does get annoying when you hear from every source that your child is too old for a pacifier).
Anyway, Markus discovered this new series from Elmo to get rid of the pacifier. Max LOVES Elmo (why, I can not understand) and he loved looking at those little clips.
His progress started by singing "Bye bye zuzi, zuzi, bye bye". (Zuzi instead of pinkie, since that's the word he uses for his pinkie).
Next thing he did is, he was willing to put it underneath his pillow (he would take it out once we left the room though).
Theeen, he started to chew on it until it was broken. So i cut off a third of the pacifier, thinking he would not want it anymore. He still wanted it for another two days, but only used it to chew on.
One morning, it was so very nasty and chewed up, he willingly threw it in the trash. And we never replaced it.
Now, just a few days after, he does not even ask for it anymore!
The whole process took about 10 days, so it's been fairly fast once he decided to become a big boy...
Sorry I've written half a book on how Max lost his pacifier... but it's only because to us this is a BIG DEAL! ;)
Sebi gave his up a few months ago (well, we forced him and he was fine with cold turkey), now our big boy is freed from this addiction too. What a great progress!
And now, the world can finally see his super cute smiling face without a pacifier covering it!
That's so awesome Lydia
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