Any suggestions on how to break my 2yr old son from his binki?

My daughter had her pacifier until she was 2 years old. I told her that she is a big girl now and does not need it. Then she handed it to me. It was hard at first because she wanted it at bedtime. When you take it away do it on a weekend or when you have a couple days that you don't have to work the next morning because you might have to get up in the middle of the night to soothe him. Try to see if he will hold a blanket or stuffed animal to cuddle with when sleeping.

Then wait till he's 3. Kids often grow out of the sucking for comfort thing 2 1/2-3 1/2. If you get rid of it too early he could end up sucking fingers or a thumb and that you can't take away from him.

Start to prepare him in advance. Don't make it a big deal when he uses it, but tell him big boys throw their Binky's away when they turn 3. Then slowly take it out of sight when he's not using it. Let him have it if he asks, but remind him when he becomes a real big boy he'll get to throw it away himself. See if you can challenge him to go to sleep without it later. My son initiated this idea himself. On his 3rd birthday get all the Binky's together and have him throw them away and say buh-bye. Then praise him and tell him how big he is and get him something big-boyish for his birthday, like new underwear or a little bike or something.

This is what I did for my son and it worked like a charm. My pedi was an expert in child development and was adamant that you not take away the Binky too early if they're otherwise having normal tooth and speech development. It's the bottle you have to worry about them having for too long. That's really bad for their teeth and some parents put things like soda in there. Very, very bad for their overall health.

On America's Funniest Home Videos, a mom and dad tied a little boy's Binky to a cluster of balloons and released it, telling him his Binky is going to Binky heaven. It got caught in a tree so the fire fighters had to come remove it from the tree and give it back! The parents took the boy and the balloons with the Binky still on it, in an open field and finally released it to Binky heaven! I think it worked, it was so cute too!

My son had a major binkie addiction. We waited until WE were really ready to spend one or two hard days, and then the binkies just disappeared. When he asked, we just said, "no, no binkie," and soothed him the way we would if anything else upset him, like distracting him with toys, songs, games, milk, etc. It only lasted a few days around his second birthday. 4 months later, I can tell you I am SO glad he doesn't use them anymore. He's becoming a big boy!

This sounds silly, but try it...

I had a friend once that's child was the same way with a binkie, and she told her child that there is a "binkie fairy", and that she comes around at night collecting binkies from the big kids and giving them to the little babies that need them.

Or, slightly meaner but possibly workable, put a little lemon juice or something yucky on the nipple so he won't want to put it in his mouth.

Seriously....do not do an thing mean to your son as far as putting lemon juice on his Binky or throwing a bug on it...You will get a lifetime full of traumatic problems

just simply take it away...in a nice way and say...(buddy...or whatever your nick name is for him) and tell him we are done with the Binky and you are sooo good to give it to the babies that need it...Thank You and you are such a Big Boy!!!

Period the End!!!

Please don't' do anything mean to your child like irritants such as bugs or bitter juice!!

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Set rules about when he is allowed to have it and slowly cut back. Like with my daughter she always demanded it in the car, so I said no more pacifier in the car. Now we are only having it at nap and bedtime, soon I'm gonna stop it altogether. I can tell she doesn't really need it anymore, she's just too used to having it available at all times. She is almost 2 yrs.

Tell him that he can only have it for 10 or 15 minutes after breakfast, after lunch and after dinner. Then set a timer. The timer (not you) will tell him when he has to put it away until after the next meal. After a few weeks just set the timer for 8-10 minutes and then 5-8 minutes, etc. It's important that he understand that the timer (not you) is telling him when to put it away.

How about just taking the thing away from him? Wow, what a radical idea. No wonder so many American children grow up to be such rotten little twits - they already rule over their parents before they've even started nursery school.