Joseph had his first dentist appointment today. It went very well. All I could hear was "What's this do?" "What's this one?". They told me that he had a 7 mm gap between his teeth, and he needed to stop using his bink or he will need "major dental work" to correct the problem.
I told Joseph at the dentist office, in front of the dentist, that when we got home he had to through away his binks because they were hurting his teeth AND the dentist said we had to. (Let him be the bad guy!)
On the way home I reminded him that when we got home he needed to through away his binks. He replied, "Just one?" I said, "Only if you will throw away one tomorrow too." He thought that was a good idea.
So far, so good. The blue bink.....garbage. Only 3 more to go, yes I know we have quite the stash. After Joseph threw it away he just stood there, looking longingly at his bink that laid in the garbage. After the moment of silence out of respect, we all cheered for him. Then Peter asked if he wanted to go play. As they were walking away Peter said, "It's o.k., we just can't use things that hurt us." What a sweet brother Peter is.
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That is so cute what Peter said...how sweet. Good luck getting rid of the binks...what a struggle. Last nights enrichement was really good...thanks!
How cute...it just tares at your heart strings. Kyle doesn't have a bink, but he does have his little bear. I can't imagine what will happen the day we tell him its time to get rid of it. Hopefully that is a LONG way away. We wish you good luck!
What a sweet and understanding boy! This is going to sound horrible, but to get rid of Ben's binkies we cut off the latex sucky part and told him they were broken! :) (He was biting holes in them.) He slept with the binkie handles for a year!! :)
Hope there haven't been bad binkie withdrawls for your little guy.
Good luck! I hope Joseph does alright getting rid of the binki, that's a hard one! Peter is a sweet brother!
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