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My little one has 1 dummy left, she’s chewed holes in her others so they’ve all been binned and after this one as I assume she’ll do the same, we are going to throw it away and try and do it in a way that she’d understand. She’s 2, she understands about Santa so we are thinking of gift wrapping it with her and say that Santa is coming to pick up her gift and in return he’s going to give her a gift. Whether it’s a teddy or something else I haven’t thought that far. But she might create an attachment to something better for her. I hope it works but me and my partner have decided to not cave in and just let it whatever happens happen. I don’t think there is any easy way to do it. When my partner was little, he had his dummy when he was like 4 or 5, his parents decided to flush it down the toilet and apparently he didn’t bat an eyelid never asked for it again🤷♀️
My daughter will be 5 years old in 2 weeks and still has a dummy at night. I have talked to her about it but she still wants it. I am of the thought that she will eventually give it up herself as she asks me not to tell people she has it. If he has a dummy at night it's not hurting anything and will help him to feel safe and comfortable
I just feel as if he don't need it now, he doesn't have it throughout the day, we have done naps without the dummy too. I would love to just get rid of it his got a muslin that he started using instead. I don't want him to have speech problem's and of course the teeth issue.
I wouldn't worry about the speak issues. My daughter has spoken well since before she was 2. He teeth have not been affected either. If it's just in a night then he wouldn't be speaking anyway. Obviously it's whatever you think is best but I don't see an issue.
With my step son he had speaking issues because of the teeth moving forward because he had it constantly for 2 years thats why he had issues I believe but if it’s only at night it shouldn’t effect the teeth as much but I’m not sure but we just got rid of it anyways as he just didn’t need it anymore because it didn’t soothe him and when he didn’t have it just made the tantrums worse but now he’s not reliant on it the tantrums are so much less and he just self soothes instead and now he doesn’t have to worry about going to school and having baby things He still has speech issues now because of his teeth and he’s nearly 4 most of the time he is hard to understand
With my son he just stopped wanting it at around a year old and was just spitting it out and throwing it so just stopped giving it to him With my step son he had his dummy until like 2 which was concerning as his teeth had moved he can’t say words properly and he never had it out of his mouth, we took it off him and only let him have it at sleep times (there were many tantrums ) and then we did it for only getting to sleep by taking it out of his mouth when he’s dead asleep so then he doesn’t have it all night and in the morning, we then told him that dummy was dirty or lost so he couldn’t have it and gave him his juice instead at bed time and eventually he settled into only having his bottle as a stimulant and didn’t have it at all