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thoughts/ideas/suggestions on how to let go of the binky?
i have tried, a couple of times, to break the binky habit with Oliver and it hasn't worked. he will be two in Feb. some of my friends suggested "talking" to him about it and have him involved in the letting go but that doesn't work. either he doesn't understand what i'm saying or just isn't willing to let it go. i want to break him of the habit so it doesn't affect his teeth. thoughts? ideas?
what age did your LO let go of the binky?
the couple of times we have tried it he would fall asleep without it but by 5am he would be crying hysterically for it...searching everywhere for it...after a long time i would cave... 
Re: thoughts/ideas/suggestions on how to let go of the binky?
We did the binky fairy, it worked wonders! She was a little older though, almost 3. She only used it at home for nap and bed, so it wasn't horrible. I thi she was able to understand that the fairy was going to leave her a present and give her binky to babies that need them. She was upset the first day/night but she was fine after that.
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We cut it, and told her it was broken (at that time, she was understanding what broken was) and started to tell her that they were for babies. After the sucking was not possible with the cut one, and she thought it was broken, she lost interest and then put it in the trash herself.
The 1st couple of nights was tough to get her down to sleep but then she was fine.
We cut the binky back a little bit each week. You just nip the tip with some scissors and then he's only allowed to use that binky. Every week we cut back a little more until there was basically nothing left and he couldn't even hold it in his mouth to suck it. Then he decided on his own it was "yucky" and never asked for it again.
It was great to cut it out this way because there was absolutely no crying for it at night or naps. He had it until he didn't want it. We started this about 13 months and I think it took C 4 weeks to get rid of it.