Now I will HAVE to share this one! Ds (3) usually sees me in the bathroom since dh is already at work when we get up, and the man NEVER has to go to the bathroom. It is really strange. Anyway, so he has always seen me but rarely dad. So when he started getting interested in the potty, dh took him in and showed him how you could go standing up. Ds watched and thought and said, "Daddy, that is crazy!" He still won't go standing up. I'm fine with that, but I wish he would when we are out using a public toilet!
DS5 is just now starting to accept the idea of peeing standing up. When we're out riding there's often no place for him to go except on a tree. At first, he would just hold it until he peed his pants because he refused. After a few times of an abrupt end to the ride so we could go home, he finally relented and will go as needed on the trail. It's been a fight, though. All because DH sits, too *sigh*. Tmi, I'm sure....lol.
Be sure to keep those fingers out of the mouth, too. Kevin sucked his thumb and messed up his teeth and even the shape of the thumb!! He was cute, though. It was not cute to spend 4,000.00 to straighten his mouth out.
AHHH! We're going thru this as well. We've always been an "only binkies for sleeping" kinda parents...so they have never left the bed- therefore, dont get lost. We've had the same silcone binkies for over a year (I do soak them in a hot bath once a month to kill germs). She got a new big girl bed and gave up one of them (she sucks on one and holds the other - kind of plays with it with her hands...I gave her a plastic toy to mimic the binky...seems to be working). She has had "Binky" and "Otherone Binky" for a while (that's what she calls them) . Everyday she reminds me that Daddy took "otherone binky" away. EEEK! She's been running to her bed a lot lately just to suck on her binky so I've started putting it high on the dresser when she's not looking so she can't do that. I'm NOT looking forward to the official give-up, though. I have heard if you don't take it away by 1, that you need to wait until they can make it a conscious choice to give up....BUT I see nothing wrong with trying to limit it to bed.
LOL, I never associated Gabby sucking her binky with getting braces. I just thought she had some crooked teeth. And you're right, sometimes afterwards they go straight for the fingers. Gabby would suck hers so hard she would break the skin. Had to get her a "Thumb Guard." It was REAL HARD getting her to give up her binky. I resorted to bribing her. First I gave her candy, then pretzels. Yes, the kids dentist and I have had many visits. :shock:
Reading these were great. Logan used pacifiers, however he was not hooked. He only used it because Jacob felt since he needed/wanted one that Logan must want one, so Jacob made sure Logan always had one. Jacob developed Pneamonia at 23 months and almost died. He was in the hospital for 10 days and doing close to 10 breathing treatments within a 24 hour period during that time along with other therapy. I brought his paci's in for him and he was so out of it that he didn't want it. I got rid of them all before he came home. Potty training. This was hard here. Jacob was almost 4 1/2 and Logan was almost 3 1/2. I tried pushing when the other moms in my moms group pushed almost a year and a hafl before. During that time we had so much going on, I can't even begin to explain. Anyway, the more I pushed especially Jacob, since he was older would rebel. Finally when he was about 3yrs 8months old I said no more. He did a decent job, no sccidents. Then, DH as laid off and we returned to Illinois. Great, now we are up and moving from sunny and warm we were always swimming outside in CA, to Cold, snowy Illinois (arriving here the day before Thanksgiving 2002), not really having a place to move into, stayed with my in-laws for a week and found a hous to rent. Driving 2000 miles alone (DH was in the moving truck), I put a diaper back on both boys for that drive. When we got here, Jacob did not want it off. We rented the house for 5 months befor we moved here. Jacob finally agreed with potty training again. Logan - He on the other hand decided to do it by himself. I put a diaper on him one morning, he got dressed by himself, we went to a ped appointment for him and told me he had to go potty. Ok, well I thought he had a diaper on. Jacob told be he took it off at home. Logan never wore a diaper again. You should have seen the Ped's face when I told her that he self potty-trained that morning. There were no accidents.
Two of mine were blanket huggers and two were finger suckers. Yes, fingers, the pointer and middle fingers. It was weird because it was my 2nd and 4th that sucked their fingers and seeing as they are 8 yrs apart it was neat the way it was the same two fingers. The first dd and the third had blankets that went everywhere with them. My oldest dd I tried to make take the pacifier because she was a preemie and we had to teach her how to suck. Her blanket was an embroidered baby quilt my sis had made her and she had to have that blanket everywhere. My third had an afghan that she had to drag everywhere. It was sooo dingy and ratty that my dh hid it in a closet and she found it anyway. There is a book called "Geraldine's Blanket" that is so similar to our scenario that it was neat. My oldest dd was not pleased with me when I got my oldest dgd hooked on the pacifier but that was the only way to get some sleep. She was pretty much broke of it by 1 year and she is now 19 mo. She is cutting 8 teeth at one time and tries to steal her sister's pacifier and tries to bite it up. A few minutes ago she showed me a diaper and kept saying "wipes, wipes" as she smelled verrry foul. Last evening she was watching tv with Joyce and all of a sudden said "me pee pee, me pee pee. Joyce took her in and she made it in time. We've been working with her and have had times with no accidents but that was the first time she initiated it. My oldest two were trained similar to Jackie's story. I had a babysitter who had twins around the same age as my older two who are 13 mo apart. The 4 of them would take their diapers off and run around the house like that. They didn't like how it felt when they had an accident on themselves and realized the potty was better. Btw, for the gals who have kids that suck pacifiers, it is much easier to break them of it than a child who sucks their fingers. Joyce was probably close to 7 before she finally stopped sucking hers!
Indeed. You CAN hide a pacifier. Kinda hard to separate a kid from his fingers. :lol: My mom took me off the pacifier when I was about 2. My older sister, who was 7 and a former thumbsucker, introduced to me to my thumb. :roll: I was ten before I stopped. Even then, there was no intervention from anyone. Things were turbulent in the family at the time, so no one pushed me to stop. Then, my little sister was born and I just decided not to any more.
I sucked my thumb and had a horrible time stopping. Even at 12, I'd wake up in the night and my thumb would be in my mouth, though I technically didn't suck it anymore---unconcious habit I guess! SOOO, I did NOT let my babies suck their thumbs or fingers enough to make it a habit. I gave them binkies. My oldest didn't want to suck anything. My second did, but spit the pacifier out by the time he was a year old. My dd on the other hand was like me, a real sucker! When they did ultrasounds while I was pregnant with her they said it looked like she was sucking her thumb! I think she would've had a really hard time stopping! She loved her binkies! We had them stashed all over the place so there was always one nearby. When she was 2 1/2, I was beginning to wonder how we were going to break her of the habit. Our church had a weekend camp out at a church summer camp about two hours from where we live. We stayed in cabins. When we got there and it was time for bed---I couldn't find a binkie! I was the one who panicked! We ALWAYS had one somewhere near, but we looked through her bag, and the car and there were none, and we were an hour from the nearest town. So, we told her that we were too far away from town to go get one, and that she was such a big girl, that she'd probably be able to do without it....or something like that, I don't remember exactly. She fussed a little the first night. I patted her and reminded her we didn't have one. The next day when she took a nap, she fussed a little again, but told me, "It's okay, I'm a big girl!" And by that night, she didn't have any more problems! When we got home I ran in before we got her out of the car, and gathered up the ones in the house and hid them away. I didn't want her to see them and want them again....then who knows when we'd be able to get rid of them again?! She never used them again after that! I was thankful the opportunity presented itself!
We've been trying to get my 4 mo old dgd to suck the pacifier without much luck. She has been testing out various combos of her fingers which is what Joyce did to begin with. The baby will only suck the pacifier for a few minutes and spit it out. She is teething, too, and that doesn't help. I've never seen a baby drool as bad as she is!
Samantha is 11 and still sleeps with her "cubby" every night! She takes it to sleep overs and camping and everything. Her cousin who is 13 has a cubby just like it that has been washed so many times it is now a tabgled ball of rags and she still sleeps with it!
I have a Pooh Bear that I got when I was 2. I slept with it until I got married. My parents cracked up because when we got a safe, that was the first thing that went in it, along with all the cards and letters and things dh gave me when we were dating. My sister will be 36 soon and she still has her Pot-Belly Bear on her bed. And we both still sleep with our little pillows--the small feather pillows that our granny made us when we were little. So I guess we are kind of strange, now that I think of it!!
Well, thanks. I just had a strange moment. When I looked at the thread title I saw that the last poster was Jennifer R. I thought, "How did my name get on there?" Actually, my maiden name started with r. So I clearly need to get more sleep if I think the computer can figure out my name!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And, if he loses one tell him you are not replacing them anymore. That way if he looses it at his age he should know that there are consequences for things that happen. Thats how we ended up stopping mine , one would disapear an we would say oh well its gone, and find something else to console them, a hug a cuddle etc. My oldest we gave one back to at 2.5 for times he was teething, because he had a bad habit of biting kids when his mouth hurt. if he is chewing on it get him a chew toy to chew on.. that may sound funny at first but if he is teething and you want him to chew on something a baby chew toy is great! kids get teeth for many years and it hurts when they come in!
That is funny! At the time I joined here I didn't think to come up with a name other than my own. I have noticed a good many of us with this name!
