to have collected all the dummies and thrown in full view of dd2 in the rubbish bin outside?

[flowerandrandd]

my dd2 is 4. she is extremely strong willed, at times very difficult to deal with. We have tried to get rid of the dummy on numerous occassion, we go on holiday on sunday and i am sick to death with her constant anxiousness over where her dummy is, turning the house over to bloody find it etc.
we have tried only giving it her at night but she is the kind of child who will continually ask on and on and on and she breaks you!

anyway i am desperate for some tips because she is hysterical and is screaming that she is still little and needs it but we have to go cold turkey.... she is also shouting that she is never sleeping again and that her daddy will get them out the bin... please help me!

Father Christmas took DS1's dummies,when he was 4 for the baby reindeer!!!! He's 21 in 3 weeks! He and I rounded them all up so they went at the same time.

Can't remember with DD...she wasn't so attached to them,and just stopped using them.

DS2 was VERY attached to his dummies, one in the mouth and one in each hand!! When he started in Foundation I told him that he could only have one at night,because children never go to school with dummies. Then I made a big show of buying one last dummy. I told him when this is worn out, there are no more. He had it for ages! Then as he came up to his 5th birthday, I told him that this was ridiculous and that on his 5th birthday (yes I know,don't judge)the dummy would go in the bin because he would be a big boy then. We did this with great ceremony, and although bedtime was hard for a couple of nights,he never looked back after that.

jamdonut great minds think alike eh

theodorakiss not quite sure what you are on about to be honest, i am a sahm and my children couldnt be more socialised, as i said my daughter in question has an iron will anyway whatever...

well not a peep last night, she sometimes woke in the night for me to find her dummy, didnt happen last night and she is like a different child today, there is no stress on either of our parts, wish i had done it sooner but i think she was ready yesterday probably not before :)

just want to say thank you to everyone who helped me through yesterday, we do have a tendency of loosing our way sometimes with this parenting minefield so to have the support and even negative comments about how nasty i have been goes a long way in helping me rectify situations! xxx

to anyone who is going through the same, this was an absolute life saver we have watched it near on 25 times, i think it helped my dd2 understand that it happened to all children that had dummies, must nicer approach than my intial loosing of my rag!