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how to wean from pacifier

How To Wean Your 4 Year Old From Her Paci
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How To Wean Your 4 Year Old From Her Paci

by Jill May 19, 2015
written by Jill

After years trapped in a love/hate relationship with, selling my soul to the pacifier, we are done!

Like, just in the last week.

Not for the last year like I originally planned.

Yes, she is 4+. No, I honestly didn’t care. Once I embraced the sweet taste of sanity and gave up trying to pry the precious away from her last year, I just didn’t have it in me to worry if she sucked on it until college.

But then! Breakthrough. THIS is the secret you’ve  all been waiting for!

We went on a cruise last week.

(Oh, did you not see that all over my Instagram account? #BRCarnivalCruise if you’re interested, but I’ll also be blogging about it all here soon, too. So equal opportunity for everyone to hate me!)

I had this brilliantly stupid idea to pretend we forgot her paci at home after we embarked on 7 days at sea.

OF COURSE I ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT WITH ME, YOU GUYS. OMGOFCOURSE. But we hid it.

The thing about cruising is it sucked the life out of our children by 8 pm every night. And also us. It definitely wiped all of us out.

So on the first night, she cried a little bit for it, but we explained that we accidentally left it at home, and that we were so very sorry. She passed out about 5 minutes later.

She didn’t ask for it once the rest of the trip. NOT ONCE.

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On the drive back home, she mentioned she was excited to sleep with paci again that night. I froze in fear, terrified she’d put up a fight now that she knows Target, the Paci village, is 3 miles away.

She cried for a few minutes when I hastily made the Paci Fairy out to be the bad guy- “But Leyna! You did so well without your paci on the ship that the Paci Fairy decided you didn’t need them anymore!”

She truly hates the Paci Fairy. I don’t blame her. Who DOES that? Not me. Definitely not her loving mother.

Anyway, the point here is this:

To get your child to stop begging for their pacifier, book a 7 night cruise, and hide the pacifier in a life jacket in your cabin.

Oh sure, it may cost you thousands, but won’t dental work or whatever down the road… possibly? You’re just… investing up front.

I am so professional at this parenting thing. Expert level unlocked.

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