We left it until our daughter was 3 before trying to drop the soother habit. We talked about it for several weeks saying that lots of new babies needed her soothers more than she did now that she was such a big girl. Then when she was used to talking about it we introduced the idea of the soother fairy, explaining that if we left her soother with a note, that we wrote and decorated together, in a pretty bag in her room overnight the soother fairy would visit and replace the soother with a toy that she really wanted. We did a few extra touches, such as sprinkling fairy dust (bought from Claire's Accessories) on her bedroom floor between the door, her bed, the present bag and back to her door which she was very excited to discover. It worked a treat and she's never asked for the soother since!
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