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Getting rid of dummy

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mum19821985 · 11/12/2016 11:40

Hiya! Any tips on getting my son off the dummy when his baby brother also has one? There seems to be dummies everywhere I look in the house and they have started to share them! Lol. It doesn't help that mil buys older son dummies every time she sees him (he now has about 40!). I've tried to stop him having them but she keeps buying them! I've thought about doing a reward chart and he can save stickers for every dummy free day he has.

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Ellieboolou27 · 11/12/2016 20:13

I thought I'd never get my dd off the dummy, she's was obsessed with it and I had a baby too, dd1 is 4.5 and dd2 is 15 months. Like you I thought she'd never give up her bedtime dummy.
Seriously my dd has iron will and I never thought it would be so easy.
I write a letter with her to the dummy fairy for big girls, let her decorate the envelope with stickers / glitter all the crap messy stuff kids love, we put her dummies in the envelope and took it to the postbox and posted it, God knows what the postman thought Grin
We then told her the dummy fairy would bring her a present and we got her a barbie which was wrapped and left on her pillow for the morning.
She never asked for it again and seeing the baby with one didn't bother her as she was a "big girl"
I had nightmares thinking she's be starting reception with a funny but it really was easy! If only I could do the same with nighttime pull up Smile
Good luck

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