What is an appropriate age to stop using a pacifier?

Question

Just wondering, my little brother is two and a half years and still uses one.

Answer 1

I plan to take my daughter's pacifier when I wean her from the bottle. Around 1...18 months at the latest.

Answer 2

It's recommended to take them away at 6 months or so - pacifiers are a soothing method for INFANTS. Thankfully neither of my children wanted the pacifier - they always spit it out.  It's a bad habit that is harder to break the older they get. By age 1 they really don't need it anymore. But your brother will be done with it eventually - all kids are at some point.  

Answer 3

hi there my daughter was 2 and the dummy fairy can and took them and left her a dora bed set which she loves, and with my son he never took one so it really depends one when ur parents feel its time for him to give it up

Answer 4

By 2 definately

my 5 yr old never took to one to begin with

the 6th month old stopped after endning nursing

he likes biting things instead..stuffed animals, chew toys, ect

he has two teeth

Answer 5

I always took my childrens away at 1. It rots their teeth and is not good for them  

Answer 6

I think when ever they are ready and comfortable, yes i believe that you should maybe give a small push towards Independence without a pacifier but don't push so hard that they feel they HAVE to.

hope it helped.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

most doctors would recommend 6 months due to it causing teething problems a year tops!

i hate it when i see children with binkys they are for BABIES  

Answer 9

2 at the latest, preferrably then the teeth starts to grow out

Answer 10

Ehh...It should be taken away when they start learning to speak. (around two and two and a half) because it gets in the way when they speak with it in they're mouth and speak improperly. I'm still working on taking my kids' away. My three year old insists on having it all the time, and we are trying to take it away without traumatizing him. haha

Answer 11

very hard to do, I finally got rid of my sons about the same age, he used to chuck it over a fence and gradually we came down to the last one so I explained there are no more, that's it .   It has gone forever. Luckily he understood and never wanted it again. I don't think he realised that I bought them in a shop, I just always had them in a drawer.

Answer 12

Definately not after 2 1/2, its bad parenting when you see any child older than 3 using a dummy, I hate to see older children sucking dummies, just the other day a child of 4 was sucking a dummy, does my head in that parents allow this to happen

Answer 13

i take it away when i take the bottle away, by age 2, no later then 2.

Answer 14

1 year, max.  Same with a bottle.

Anything past that is just plain lazy on behalf of the parents.

Answer 15

My daughter got rid of hers at about 2yrs 9 mos.  By this point she was old enough to understand that she was a big girl and with her own money (saved from xmas) she was bought a slide, something she really wanted, but only on the condition that she was a big girl, big girls get slides, little girls get pacifiers.  she never once asked for it again!

Answer 16

both my children voluntarily gave them up to santa on christmas eve before their 3rd birthday.

Answer 17

as soon as they get their first tooth other wise they grow around it look http://tabemono.info/english/news/images...

my daughter never had one, neither did me or my brothers. i had a silk Hanky as a comforter, my brothers and daughter, teddies

Answer 18

He is plenty old to stop using it. The newborn sucking reflex is gone long before this age.  My daughter never took hers past 3 months.  They are easier to take away if they are not overly used in the first place, they should be for emergencies only.

Answer 19

As long as it isn't harming their socialization (keeping paci in mouth and not talking to anyone) and if it's not harming their teeth, then let the child keep the pacifier as long as he wants it.  Maybe limit the use to his crib/bed only.

It's funny because we just took my daughter (3) to the dentist and the dentist actually said she was okay using the paci because the arches in her mouth aren't aligned properly but sucking on a pacifier might pull the misaligned one out a bit, thus correcting her arches.

Answer 20

well it depends, how long would you breastfeed your child on demand??

most women wean their children off the breast by 1 year (my daughter is 2 and still has a breastfeed before bed-we are in the process of stopping this)

A dummy (pacifier) is used to calm a child,comfort it and generally keep it quite, a bit like nursing a newborn.

If you think its inappropriate for a 2 1/2 year old to rely on its sucking reflexes for comfort then they should not be given a pacifier at this age either.

I think that by 2 years old they should learn how to comfort their selves atleast during the day, I have seen 4 year olds with dummies and i think this is definitely inappropriate.