The Dummy Fairy

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I didn't like the poems at all. They might have been better for older children but I found them a bit tedious and found I had to skip them or paraphrase as my toddler lost interest, about 20 seconds before me ADD On - A Dummy Fairy Reciept which you can fill out and add to your baby box along with their other memorable items such as their hospital wrist band. Popped all the dummies in a magical box and on Christmas day the reindeers take all the dummies. They left behind a trail of sparkles and glitter and a special present. It worked too.”– Shelley Hawthorne

To explore the imaginary world and the benefits that fantasy offers to young developing minds, you can choose to also put up a fairy door to give the Dummy Fairy a way to enter your child's room. Our fairy doors are a beautiful room decor which can then continue bringing smiles year round. The NHS and other healthcare experts recommend that all babies stop using a dummy when they're between six and 12 months old. I think this book is trying to please everyone by covering a number of bases but this ends up making it feel a bit unnatural.The book uses a fun and interesting story to teach children why it makes sense to give up dummies, and, importantly, it also offers up some effective ideas to stop them missing them once they've gone. We had a ‘big boy’ party – balloons, cake the works. Part of that was saying goodbye to the dummy. My boy put it in the bin himself. Had a rough week, but it was needed to happen at some point.”– Sophie 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. By age 2, we replaced that with a soft toy. He had two slightly upset days where he asked for it at nap time and then he completely forgot about it.

Indy was approaching 4, Maddie my second daughter had cried for 2 years solid and Indy still had a dummy – by this time it was a crutch for both of us and I am not sure which of us was more daunted by the prospect of getting rid of it!’ Lisa Bonner The children's picture book Daniel And The Dummy Fairy Book, may help your child to ditch their dummy with less stress. We left ours out for the Easter Bunny to take for all the baby bunnies and he left an extra special treat to say thank you.”– Feli I tied my sons to a helium balloon and when it was dark we let them float up to the babies in the sky. I think he took it better than me, and never asked for it again.”– Angela The font is difficult to read and is quite small (it's in Footlight MT rather than something that's easier to read, like Arial or Helvetica)Santa took it a few days before Christmas to prepare and freshen it up for the new babies that don’t have one yet. Three-year-old talked about it for a couple of weeks leading up to so no surprise.”– Rach My three-year-old hates Vegemite, so I put a teeny little smear on the end of the dummy and the look on her face was enough to tell me it worked!”– Rose

We gave ours to our friends baby who was still in her tummy… worked amazingly only two days of asking, wanting to see the photo. And she was addicted at a time for two years.”– Beccompared to premature babies that were not read to communication skills were more developed later on. All my kids gave it up on their second birthday – kept telling them leading up to their birthday that the garbage men were going to take the dummy away as they are big kids now! They watched them empty the bin and drive off, never had a problem – only one of them said to go to the shop and buy another one but we didn’t.”– Debbie In psychotherapy, enabling promotes a negative sense of encouraging dysfunctional behaviour to make the enablers life easier. Fairies Away is the brainchild of Hampshire mum, Lisa Bonner. The mother of three wrote this magical book ‘The Story of the Dummy Fairies’ for her eldest daughter India. India is now 7 years old but at the time struggled to give up her dummy. A challenging and often upsetting issue that faces many parents up and down the country daily. Lisa Bonner and her girls

We set a date on the calendar that we would be visiting the zoo (his favourite place) but said we could only go if he had given up the dummy by then. So he had time to get used to the idea, and a reward at the end.”– Rach After reading, parents can simply follow the book at home, and arrange an exciting visit from the Dummy Fairy, to the delight of their child. Bea Gives Up Her Dummy provides an easy, fun way for parents to say goodbye to dummies for good. When children grow into big boys and girls, Dummy Fairy will come on just the right night to take all of that child's dummies to another child in need. To make things even more exciting, Dummy Fairy leaves a gift for the child too. Daniel and the Dummy Fairy Book is easy to read and shows relatable, engaging characters that may help ease transition to a time without dummies. Saying goodbye to the dummy made easier Dummy fairy didn’t work for us, neither did cutting it in half. What did work for us is I said I will put it in the dishwasher and wash it because it’s a bit dirty and when he was at daycare I took it out and slit it down the middle (didn’t cut the top off like last time). I left it in the dishwasher and when it was time to go to bed he remembered that I put it in there and when he got it he said, ‘oh no mummy its broken’. He tried to put it in his mouth a few times but it wasn’t the same so he said I don’t want it any more. If I had of known it was that easy I would’ve done that a year ago!”– DeannaBea gets to meet the fairy, who shows her that it IS possible to give up dummies without shedding a single tear. Daisy the Dummy Fairy has a very special job to do. When children grow big enough to give away their dummies, she flutters into their house at night to collect them, leaving every child a surprise to find in the morning!