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I remembered 'weaning' Farihin off his pacifier when he turned 2 years old. It was also the time when I enrolled him into a childcare centre and I didn't want to have to bring along the pacifier to school. Furthermore, his two front teeth looked as if it were going to protrude out if he kept sucking on his pacifier. Like me, I 'weaned' off mine only at 5 years of age and that was only because i had an ulcer on my tongue.

Taking away the pacifier from him was not an easy task. He can't sleep without it and hell broke loose when one fine day I forgot to bring it home from my mum's house! At that moment, I said to myself I had do it! No more pacifier for him. And so I did a cold turkey on him using a trick that my mum used on my younger brother's pacifier many years ago.

One morning before he woke up, I wet the tip of the pacifier, dipped a bit of Nescafe and left it underneath the kitchen cabinets. Of course at that age he can't tell it's Nescafe! When he woke up, I told him I found his pacifier there and the cockroach had shit on it! He cried and insisted on washing it off. I went to the sink, pretended to wash it away and showed him that the shit was there to stay! Each time he asked for the pacifier, I reminded and showed him that the cockroach shit was still there and he believed me! I think it took at least a week or so and thank goodness finally,he managed to carry on without it! Successful!



Now, I have to start thinking of a plan for Farah.....