My oldest daughter sucked her thumb. She is the only one who had to wear braces.

I guess 1 out of 7 isn't bad.

My niece was like this. She would talk holding the pacifier in her mouth like a cigarette. haha I told her to take that thing out of her mouth and talk to me. She just recently got married but I still remember the 3 pacifiers.

Our son used a pacifier for a few days but one night I heard him cry then stop. When I checked on him he had found his thumb. No more paci's for him. He sucked his thumb all the way to grade school until my dad offered him a $100.00 to quit. I had tried everything but the money got him. He wanted a wad of $1 dollar bills and that's what my dad gave him. Fresh from the bank with the band still on them. Kids are funny. He's 32 now and I still like to tell this story. haha

I was trying to break my younger daughter of the bottle and pacifier, my husband would keep buying her new ones.
So, one day the trash-men were coming and I gathered them up, told her that it was time to get rid of them. We walked out to the large can and dropped them in it. The truck came, we waved bye bye, and that was that. She never asked for one again, all along she was drinking out of a cup, so that was that. The husband never bought her anymore either.

I convinced my lil one that baby angels needed them ... Didn't work ...
a few days later she lost/ left her Binky at the daycare... That night when she asked for it I reminded her it was at the school and we had to find it tomorrow.. Well four tomorrows later she finally forgot all about it.. No fits just 'oh ok mommy tomorrow' ...

2 of 4 of mine took to the pacifier. To break them of it you have to take it away. My youngest son lost his and we couldn't find it so he cried for a night and never needed it again. I know it sounds cruel and hard but you have to be strong. It is not good for them to have one past the age of 1. Not being judgmental, just as I understand it.
Good luck.

I look at is ...It makes them feel safe, having a sense of security. I still to this day keep something around just for that.
It a Harley Davidson skull cap my youngest son wore. I keep it around to remind me, one day I will see him.

Kids will find something to suck anyway. I didn't want to start a pacifier habit, so I never gave mine one. I didn't have to get rid of a pacifier, but I did have to break the thumb sucking habit. I think it would have been easier getting rid of the pacifier! I think whoever "lost" it had the right idea!

My oldest sucked her thumb. The second used the two middle fingers of her hand, the 3rd and 4th had "Plugs" #3 had trouble with the "pl" sound and so to her it was a "prug"
We limited her to only using it for naps and bed time. If she got upset, she would run to her room and sit on her bed and suck on the pacifier. We were able to break her from it when one time we were visiting Grandma and somehow we forgot to bring one. when we got home, DH kept the kids occupied in the car and I ran and collected every one we could find and put them in a high cabinet. We had a rough couple nights at Grandma's and a couple nights at home but that was the end of it.

We broke our oldest DD when she was about 2 1/2, cold turkey, of course we talked about it with her before they all disappeared. We didn't get much sleep for about a week, did a lot of holding, rocking and book reading with her when she would start to miss it. Then she was okay.
Second DD only wanted her thumb, can't take that away. Started about the same age trying to put bad tasting stuff on it to discourage her, hot sauce, food she didn't like, etc., but nothing worked. She finally stopped when her 1st grade friends called her a baby, that did it, end of thumb. Oh, and now she loves hot sauce and both ended up with braces. :)