Sucking a dummy or thumb: How do you break this habit?

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"Sucking a dummy or thumb: How do you break this habit?"

Children often just grow out of this habit, but what if they don't appear to want to? You don't want to be picking them up from their first day at secondary school with their dummy in! What are your tips to get children to break this habit? Is it really that bad anyway? What do you think?

Keywords dummies, thumbsucking, children

From Anna

17.09.2008

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wll, the easiest is to not do it at all…but MUCh easier said than done

05.10.2008, 17:59

I was reading something about burying the dummy and telling the child tat the 'dummy fairy' took it away

05.10.2008, 18:17

I think breaking them of a dummy would be much eaiser than the thumb

05.10.2008, 19:16

exactly! I mean…can't quiet throw away the thumb ;)

05.10.2008, 20:37

this is going to sound really, really mean. But, my son refused to stop sucking his thumb,. We did everything, put tat nasty tasting stuff on it, talked to him, reward, blah blah blah. You kbnow what stopped it for good? When to school the first day and teh teacher said 'now, only babies suck their thumbs' (don't worry, she told me she was going to say it and she said it in that nice, sweet, sing-song playgroup leader voice) and he stopped THAT DAY! I wanted to kiss her! haha

05.10.2008, 21:00