A friend of mine told their 3 year old she had to give her binky to Santa. It seems to have worked so far

When my daughter was two and her pacifier was getting too worn, I didn’t want to get her a new one because I wanted her to stop using it, so I simply told her that the pacifier was broken and that I had to throw it away. She accepted it easily and never made a fuss. I was quite surprised at how easy it was – I had expected more of a tantrum. Give it a try and see how your child reacts.

Has she given it up now? A lot of people say have an open dialog and get themmto throw them away. My daughter threw hers at us one day and never looked back

There is no set age, she will give it up in her own time, make it something exciting for her.

I waited a really long time to get rid of my lo’s dummy. I would have liked to have taken it away before he was 2 but only managed to do it a few months before he was 3. He was only having it for sleeps but once my 2nd child took a dummy big brother wanted one all the time. One day he wouldn’t give it up when he was awake so I took it off him and told him I was going to throw it away. He saw me throw it away, cried for 10 minutes then went on his way. He asked for it for a couple of day but he didn’t really care. It was a lot less traumatic then I was anticipating. Good luck I hope you have an equally good experience.

Great question my son is the same, he is fine sleeping without it with my parents but at our place he really wants it. :

I don’t know how old your daughter is I am guessing she may be old enough to replace the dummy with something else to comfort her at bed time. I suggest you snip it so when she sucks it is flat and she won’t want it because it is broken. Let her dispose of it to the trash bin. Take her shopping for something big girls take to bed. Let her make a choice of something and it will be her special bed time snuggle comfort.

Tell your child to give it to santa at xmas timw and that santa will see shes a big girl now and give her lots of big girl presents

You need to set a goal with this one as it is very hard. Make sure you talk to her and tell her that another baby now needs it and in return the easter bunny or santa or tooth fairy will leave something special , so she will get and extra gift. Do not worry how she is feeling as it will save you a lot of money down the track with teeth issues.

Asking her to swap it for something else she wants will usually work. Or a visit from the dummy fairy is a good idea.

after she is asleep, take it off her then and put it away

give it 2 the dummy fairy in exchange for a toy

Some mothers have cut the end off and kept snipping it shorter and shorter until their was no dummy left.

there are some good comments here

How have you gone with this?

my daughter was just under 2 when we took them from her and her bottles we said the puppies needing them now and she happyly gave them up for the puppies

My son (2.5) STILL has his and we have tried everything imaginable. We bought a book designed for helping them lose the dummy & everything, Look forward to reading some of the suggestions here!

We wrapped a brown paper parcel with all the dummies inside and went to the post office who were very good sports and we posted them to Santa to fix up and give to little babies. They never asked for them again.

The seagulls took my eldest daughters dummy ( she kept throwing it over the balcony for her uncles to fetch) and the dummy fairy visited the next two.(just make sure they havn’t planted any) Number 4 refused a dummy from birth, but was much harder to wean, as he still wanted the comfort of being breast fed. It will be hard for a few days, but don’t give in.. it doesn’t take long for them to move on. I think I let them choose new doona covers to make bed time more inviting and them feel grown up.

We told our son that there were other little babies that needed dummies and it was time to give his away. We told him that the toy shop would take his and swap it for a toy of his choice (within reason).
Talk to the sales lady and explain when you little one isn’t there and just get something little else so they don’t wonder why you are paying for the toy.
Make sure ALL dummies are gone from the house so you can’t go back on this and after a few tears the first night or two we were dummie free. If you don’t have it they will realize its gone and get over it very quickly.