I've been procrastinating this day for months. I could only think of the mangled bedtime routines and sleepless nights ahead of me. However, today was the day. I convinced Hazel that it was time to throw the binkies away. So this afternoon we very ceremoniously gathered up the last 9 binkies out of her bed and threw them away. I tried to convince her to throw them in the big can in the garage (they are truly unretrievable from the outside garbage can). But she wasn't going for that and instead settled on the recycle bin (which I emptied into the big can later). Everything was good until I tried to lay her down for her nap. It didn't happen. But my heart broke when we put her to bed tonight. She didn't get that the binkies were really gone. Hazel just cried and cried, "But I want my binkies." I guess that I am sad for her as well as for me. For Hazel this is a really big step and it is hard to give up a security blanket. For me it means that she really isn't a baby anymore and this is the last time for eveything. I love watching my kids get older and more independent. But at the same time I want them to stay where they are forever. 1.29.2008
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I've been procrastinating this day for months. I could only think of the mangled bedtime routines and sleepless nights ahead of me. However, today was the day. I convinced Hazel that it was time to throw the binkies away. So this afternoon we very ceremoniously gathered up the last 9 binkies out of her bed and threw them away. I tried to convince her to throw them in the big can in the garage (they are truly unretrievable from the outside garbage can). But she wasn't going for that and instead settled on the recycle bin (which I emptied into the big can later). Everything was good until I tried to lay her down for her nap. It didn't happen. But my heart broke when we put her to bed tonight. She didn't get that the binkies were really gone. Hazel just cried and cried, "But I want my binkies." I guess that I am sad for her as well as for me. For Hazel this is a really big step and it is hard to give up a security blanket. For me it means that she really isn't a baby anymore and this is the last time for eveything. I love watching my kids get older and more independent. But at the same time I want them to stay where they are forever. 
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We read somewhere that if you cut the tip off you kill the suction. Then you trim off a little more and a little more and a little more until they get sick of it and throw it out.
ReplyDeleteWe tried this with Alex, but after cutting the tips off all his binkies, he put one in his mouth, tried to suck on it and threw it out. He did this with all of the binkies in his bed and never asked for them again.
Hopefully the same trick will work for Andee.
;)
I have never understood the need to take binkies away. It's all about the help they are to me!
ReplyDeleteMy husband was the binky take away guy - took Harry's away and then went off to a meeting - I said, never again. If you take it away, you hang around till they're over it.
I don't even remember taking the others away - but none of my kids went to Kindergarten with a binky, so they obviously gave them up sometime!
I had to take them away. I took her to the dentist because her jaw alignment is way off. He said that I should get rid of the binkies because it was inhibiting her lower jaw growth. I don't want Hazel to have to go through what I've been through.
ReplyDeleteah sad,... at least she didn't substitute thumb for binky a while ago. This way she'll hopefully make a clean break from binkies to nothing. :) Hopefully she doesn't latch onto something else to suck on. I know it was hard for me to quit sucking my thumb at age 7 so I hope she really does learn to get along without it. :)
ReplyDeleteso hard, but good for you, and her in the long run! I've always been a believer of cold turkey. It's worked for us so far. You deal with it, and there is no turning back.
ReplyDeleteSo fun to watch them grow and progress!
as soon as we took away annika's binkies she started biting her nails then her toes and now she chews on her fingers.
ReplyDeleteI'm ready to go and buy her a binky
she's been putting her fingers in her mouth for the last 3 or 4 months. That's about when I got serious about binkies only in her bed. Hopefully though she will get over that too. Today's nap was a little sad. But she didn't even ask for them at bedtime tonight. Maybe this will be easier than I thought. Although, she has been somewhat hyperactive for that last couple days. It's like we uncorked her energy by throwing out the binkies. I think she doesn't know how to calm down without them. So tonight she went to bed with a mermaid (barbie).
ReplyDeleteHey sounds like you got a real dillema on your hands ... but as a side note ... last time I checked Hazel hasn't been a baby for a little more than a fortnight now. Hopefully it will pass.
ReplyDeleteDad gave me a similar argument when he saw me getting mad at McKay for wetting her pants when she was 4 ... he said "Jacob don'r worry about it ... I don't know any High School semior who still wet their pants!" I always laugh at that.
I was feeling sad the otehr day when I saw pictures of Calvin with his Binky. He seemed so little and it was less than a year ago! And then I felt sadder because Agnes doesn't take a binky adn we'll never have those cute toddler pictures of her with a Binky.
ReplyDeletePathetic, I know.
We are not ready for this stage of life with Emma yet...so I feel your pain of having to go through with the whole taking the binkies away thing. You have given me courage for that day though! ha ha
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