How do we get rid of the evil... soother?

I wouldnt worry about it too much, but one idea I have heard of is setting a date, getting all her soothers today and burying them in the garden (the idea being that a soother tree will grow). As a reward you could then take her on a shopping trip and buy her a special present for being a big girl. It's hard isnt it when everyone has an opinon about every aspect of your parenting, I'm not very good at doing this, but think the is is good to have a wise store of answers for people who get your goat up by making comments.

My son took his soother till he was 23 months old. He ended up sick with the flu and he got mad when he'd put the soother in his mouth and couldn't breath out his nose. He went and threw it in the garbage and that was the end of that. I was just going to take it away from him cold turkey and suffer the sleepless nights and whatnot if he hadn't of done what he did. I was giving him till his 2nd birthday and that was it.

It isn't uncommon for a two-year-old to still have a soother. My younger daughter seemed to take forever to let hers go. There has to be something they want more in order to give it up. I think my daughter wanted to go to kindergarten and we told her that they wouldn't let her go if she still used her soother/pacifier. My granddaughter sucked her thumb until she was six and a half! She wanted her ears pierced and her mom said she could have them pierced when she no longer sucked her thumb. So she stopped!

for me i took mine away about a year old. i worry about here teeth more then anything else.each child is different though. i would just slowly remove it more and more and tell them how big they are now.

My daughter just up and decided one day that she did not want it anymore. She was only 7 months. My son on the other hand was hard to get off it. He was 2 when he got rid of his. We went to go visit my sister and he lost it. It was late at night and I was not about to get up and go to the store to get him a new one. It was a rough night, but he never had one again after that night. When we got home I threw them all away. He was fine without one after that first night.

my daughter is 14 months and we took away her soother. here is how we did it. they like the suction of the soother so if you snip a little of the end each day then pretty soon they lose all interest in the soother and will find something else to get attached to. once my daughter lost her soother she attached to a stuff bear that she takes with her everywhere. or you can try to get her to pay for something in the store that she wants with her soother. i hope that this helps out. have a great day

Hi Emma, I know exactly how you feel. The same thing happened to me, people use to make comments all the time about my daughter having a soother. Anyway I decided to get rid of the soother when she was about 2 and half years old. It was very hard, but the only way I could do it was to show her the broken soother. While she was not looking I cut the soother. She was devestated. When she wanted the soother I gave it to her, but of course she did not want a broken one. So she cried for a few days, but after that she forgot about it. It was the best thing I ever did. I kept the broken soother and gave it to her everytime she wanted it, but she kept rejecting it. Hope this helps, good luck.