Ideal age for the dummy fairy?

[LittleLL]

Also keen to hear hints/tips/strategies/successes/failures etc.

My toddler is obsessed with her dummies. We were doing really well at having them only for sleep, but since lockdown (DH and I WFH, things have been stressful for us all at times) we've regressed to the point that she now sleeps with one in her mouth and at least 2 in each hand, plus she asks for it A LOT during the day.

Dummy fairy worked a treat for both our boys. Late 3 I would say. May be too late for some but was good for us. From my experience and that of friends, I'd say they usually surprise you by getting over it pretty fast. Just make sure the dummy fairy brings something they really want and talk about it for a while beforehand. I kept telling them that the fairy would only come and bring their present when she thought they were ready. I left them hanging for long enough that they were begging for her to come and bring the toy eventually!

How old is she?
My Ds 20 months has one only when sleeping but has a comforter ( a little teddy with a blanket) could you transfer her affections to a teddy? Re the dummy fairy no idea but i feel like not yet for us.

The dummy fairy visited me when I was 3. I posted my dummy through the letter box from inside the house and the fairy popped my wish through for me

My son was 3 too. They seem to understand it more and enjoy the dummy fairy story.

DD stoped using hers around 3 1/2. She had been managing just to use it at bed time for about a year before we stopped. We all decided she could keep it until we got home from her first Holliday abroad. It worked well and the first week home she happily gave it up to the dodo fairy. We did it similar to the tooth fairy & she got some pennies to buy a toy. We just kinda went with flow but dropped hints about being a big girl and they don't use them.

We got rid of dd's dummies at 3. She loved her dummies, one in her mouth and one to rub her cheek with.
She did ask occasionally we just reminded her about her present from the dummy fairy.
Nearly a year later she found one at the bottom of the toy box it was a bloody nightmare to get off her.

Ours were three when we got rid of the dummies, they were both only having good them for sleeping by then. With ds we did it gradually, so as the dummies were lost or broken they were never replaced, then when he was down to one we encouraged him to leave it by his bed and when he went a week without it we took it away and he got a toy. With dd we did the dummy fairy and got rid in one go. I'm not sure a child under 3 would really understand about a dummy fairy?