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[frankiej]

lol Frankie you are cute!

You sound surprised.

[Faith No More]

Here's my little man on the tricycle his grandparents got him for his birthday.

If anyone has any tips on getting him to quit the pacifier, speak up. He can't seem to shake that monkey off his back.

[The Grand Nudger]

Put hotsauce on it

[Kayenneh]

If anyone has any tips on getting him to quit the pacifier, speak up. He can't seem to shake that monkey off his back.

Be harsh, take it away. He'll cry for a couple of days, but after that he should forget it.

[Shell B]

Yep. I'm with Kay. Rhythm has a good one too. However, negative association is a less PC method. lol Just junk the pacifier.

[Faith No More]

Well, the real issue isn't during the day, which we don't allow him to have during that time. He just happened to see it sitting out and wouldn't let me take the photo without it. He can't seem to fall asleep without it, and if he wakes up in the middle of the night and can't find it, he screams and wakes us up. He sleeps terribly as it is, so we just let him have it at night to make things easier. I guess were just going to have to bite the bullet and have some sleepless nights for a while.

[fr0d0]

Cute lil man nomore. I'd let him keep it nights. But I'm soft.

[pocaracas]

Well, the real issue isn't during the day, which we don't allow him to have during that time. He just happened to see it sitting out and wouldn't let me take the photo without it. He can't seem to fall asleep without it, and if he wakes up in the middle of the night and can't find it, he screams and wakes us up. He sleeps terribly as it is, so we just let him have it at night to make things easier. I guess were just going to have to bite the bullet and have some sleepless nights for a while.

When my eldest was almost 4, he still used it to sleep.... and was pretty much like you describe.
One day, he was having a tantrum over something, my wife got fed up, took it out of his mouth and threw it behind the furniture... There was no other to replace it, so he had to go to sleep without it.
It was a sort of punishment for the tantrum, but he did go to bed and slept quite well.
A few days later, he asked quietly for the pacifier, but we told him we didn't have any, and he was now a big boy and didn't need it. He took it like a man and went to sleep.... and never again did I have to use those devilish devices.
My other two kids never liked them.... luckily, they never resorted to sucking thumbs either!

[Kayenneh]

Well, the real issue isn't during the day, which we don't allow him to have during that time. He just happened to see it sitting out and wouldn't let me take the photo without it. He can't seem to fall asleep without it, and if he wakes up in the middle of the night and can't find it, he screams and wakes us up. He sleeps terribly as it is, so we just let him have it at night to make things easier. I guess were just going to have to bite the bullet and have some sleepless nights for a while.

In that case I'm sorry for the nights ahead. If I lived any closer, I would offer to come babysit him, so that you parents could get some sleep

[The Grand Nudger]

Hehehe, babysitters. I once floated the idea of finding a good babysitter for those times when my wife and I have conflicting schedules, and she thought that it was a great idea with the provision that she got to pick the babysitter, from a pool of people with either dusty vaginas or huge penises. I decided that a babysitter wasn't a good idea after all.

Stymied at every turn!