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- From: tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan)
- Subject: Re: Thumb Sucking
- In-Reply-To: navon@cs.unc.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 15:26:57 GMT
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- Sender: tigger@satyr.UUCP (Grace Sylvan)
- Organization: Sylvan Associates
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:06:06
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- In article <1k10s1INNf3l@borg.cs.unc.edu> navon@cs.unc.edu (Jaime Navon) writes:
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- We are using the same strategy with our daughter Maayan (25 months).
- We have succesfully completed the first 2 steps so she is using
- pacifier only in bed. However it seems that the last step
- will be the most difficult (she won't go to bed without her
- pacifier). I would apretiate any hints/comments/suggestions/experiences on
- how to do the final step in a painless way. Thanks.
-
- Let her be. At least my friend's two children all quit using their
- pacifiers in bed by the time they were around 4 (if not sooner) all on
- their own. They weren't permitted to use it anywhere but on their bed
- from age 2.5 or something like that, but if they felt the urge, they
- were always welcome to take a break and sit and suck on their bed.
-
- If you take it away now (my daughter weaned from regular breastfeeding
- at age 2.5) and she still has the urge to suckle, she'll use her
- thumb! That's what my daughter does, although I will say her use of
- her thumb has decreased over the past year.
-
- The worldwide average for weaning from breastfeeding for children is
- 4.2 YEARS. It is natural for a human child to use sucking as a
- comfort.
-
- Good luck!
- --
-
- Tigger (Grace Sylvan) Mom of Katherine Yelena, 8/8/89,
- tigger@satyr.sylvan.com Corey 1/31/91; we loved him so,
- Robin Gregory born 2/28/92
-
- "It seems to me that our large goal is to find the ways to help our
- children become humane and strong."
-
- - Dr Haim Ginott quoted by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
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