Daniel's story : My son used his dummy both as as a tactile object with his hands and in his mouth when going to sleep. Was really worried as her baby sister was still using dummies at the time, but she seemed to understand that dummies are for babies. In psychotherapy, enabling promotes a negative sense of encouraging dysfunctional behaviour to make the enablers life easier.

Anyway she randomly asked me one day when the dummy fairy was coming so I jumped on it and said ‘Tomorrow! The book can be read on the night that the Dummy Fairy is coming to your house and any time before or after that.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Ah, just back from a lovely holiday in Wales and I'm sure I'll blog a bit more about that another time. Firstly, to 'ask your child if they could possibly donate their dummy to a very sad baby dragon and secondly, to thank, your child for giving up their dummy for a very sad pet dragon! Needless to say, we soon ditched the dummies for our baby as don’t want to have to go through all this a second time!

It explains to the child in simple, colourful illustration what will happen to their dummy once the Dummy Fairy has taken it. So I tried leaving them on the table next, and made her count them for me (so hopefully she'll remember the relevance of the same number of chocolate coins in the morning) - well when I said 'let's count them', she did - in Spanish! Doctors also feel that some toddlers sucking a dummy have three times more ear infections than a non-dummy sucker. Are you aware that child psychologists suggest that parents talk to their child about taking away their Dummy at least 10 times before you actually do it?

Let your little one know that the Dummy Fairy has taken the dummy to Baby Fairy Daycare for the day, where all the baby fairies will make good use of it. On the day of, collect all dummies together with your child and place them in a special bag or container next to their little belle fairy house (www. We didnt use a dummy fairy, DD was 23 months when we got rid of the dummy so she wldnt really understand it, but (she came off dummy in July) i didnt want to wait till xmas as felt it was too far away. As the Mother of 2 dummy suckers, the Dummies assisted both of the author’s premature babies to learn to suck.