Supernanny…had a great idea!
A few weeks ago I was watching an episode of Supernanny. I don’t watch it often anymore because it seems that she does a lot of the same things with each family. On this particular evening, she was going to help the parents break their son of pacifiers. She talked about the Paci Fairy. The little boy went and gathered all of his pacies and put them into a large envelope marked To The Paci Fairy. Then they mailed it. That night he went to bed without pacies an no fuss. In the morning he awoke to find an envelope with his name and feathers, and streamers and glitter. Inside the envelope were little plastic animals. I decided to give it a try. We changed a couple of things. We placed the envelope full of pacies under our big tree. We came inside and ate 2 M&Ms. Then went back outside. There was a package for Carsten and inside were plastic animals. Carsten got to put them in the box were we used to keep pacies, and before bed he picked out two to take with him. He went to sleep without any problems. Today at nap time we did the same thing. It worked great! We are now DONE with pacies! Hooray!
Donna said,
March 16, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
What a great idea, and so cool that it worked! Wish I’d had that back about 32 years ago when I was trying to break some little 3 year olds of their “pums”. 😉
GG said,
March 16, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
And I wish I had it 56 years ago when a certain child had to have his “souck”–(kind of a cross between “suck” and “sock”) in order to go to sleep, Said child was of the male persuasion, and when I was about 40 weeks pregnant with his sister, I crawled under beds, searched through beds, etc to find it. He had it for another year.
Poor Dale baby sucked a blanket. When he was about two years old, he and I took it to the “burn can” and lighted the fire. The fact that there was another one clean was not told him. That night, after he had gone to bed, I heard quiet little sobs, and when I went to comfort him, he said, “I want my “‘souck'”. Poor little guy; I nearly cried with him, but he remembered that we had burned it and it was all gone.
Both of these were easier than getting the fingers out of Donna’s mouth. But that did end; I haven’t seen her with them in her mouth lately.
Aunt Donna said,
March 16, 2008 @ 9:30 pm
I only suck them when no one’s looking…
Daryl said,
March 21, 2008 @ 10:42 am
Boy, that child 56 years ago sure caused you some headaches, didn’t he, Mom?!
Heather — I find the gray-on-white text of your blog quite hard to read. The contrast is too low for my eyes.
Heather said,
March 21, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
I wonder how I would change that and keep the pretty flowers? Hmmm….
Dad said,
March 21, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
I wonder what you could do to make the grey closer to black?
Heather said,
March 21, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
Thanks Dad!
Heather said,
March 22, 2008 @ 8:01 am
It is back to gray! What happened?
Dad said,
March 22, 2008 @ 10:35 am
It’s still black for me. Hold your shift key and hit reload on your browser.
jocelyn said,
March 22, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
dad rocks 🙂