She first came to the conclusion, during the first of many attempts to make her stop, that if she covered her eyes then we wouldn't be able to see what she is doing.
The covering of the eyes didn't work the way she wanted so she moved onto the idea that if she covered her fingers then we wouldn't know they were in her mouth. Obviously this idea would work much better if a) I wasn't smarter then that and b) she was only ever seen from the left side instead of the possible right side.
So a week ago, I decided that I had had enough. Maylee was going to get a tooth pulled that had been hanging on by a thread. It really needed to come out as her adult tooth had come up behind it a couple of months ago. Rori was going to stop sucking her bink at all. That was easy on me as all I did was take all of the binks that I knew of and put them in a baggie, then into a drawer to never be seen again. Albany was GOING to let go of the fingers. That was going to be a task!
We had tried everything we could think of to at least have her give them up a little. She could have them only in bed, we would take her to the store to pick out ANYTHING she wanted, flick her cheek every time we caught her. Finally I decided that negative punishment whenever we caught her with her fingers in her mouth, along with a positive reward when she stopped sucking them, aka pierced ears, was going to be how we broke her. So on Sunday she got her reward!!
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