Thought for Today Tuesday...

Today is the first day of my new little section - "Thought for Today Tuesday". I will be writing every Tuesday about some sort of new thing that we are encorperating at our house, or a thought that really struck me during the last week. We shall see how it goes...

Today's thought is paci's. All of our kids have been paci babies and I remember seeing a SuperNanny episode of a 5 and 6 year old who still had pacis! I swore that would never be my children, so I have tried everything to prevent that from happening. I also didn't want them to suck their thumbs since I was a major thumb sucker until mid-elementary school....

In an effort to find ways to quit the kids from taking their pacis I consulted many friends and their findings. Its funny because each kids is truely different!

With Josh, he was 14 months old when Jenna was born and was nearly weaned off the paci. But with her birth and the fact that she had one, he went right back on the paci full force. We got him down to only at nap/night time by the time he was 16 months, and when he turned 18 months we tried to just take them away out right. That SO DID NOT work! It was the worst week ever! So I tried a different method that a friend told me about. Snipping the ends off so that there is no suction. Works like a charm! He thought the paci was broken, so he didn't want it any more! Paci habit was broke in just one day. Awesome!

Jenna was 16 months when Julianna was born, so we didn't even try to pull the "plug" on her until after the baby was born. I tried snipping the ends by the time she was 18 months...she didn't care!!! So yesterday I just took them away. We put them away and she said "nite nite" to them. And you know what, she did fine! LOL....Its so nice to just have ONE size of paci around the house rather than trying to decide whose is whose.