Pacita the Pacifier Fairy (Big Kid Chronicles) (Big Kid Chronicles, 1)

Nice story and illustrations, and helpful content for parents at the end. The book is cleverly written so that you can replace the printed word "paci" with whatever your kid calls the pacifier without affecting the story and rhyming pattern (my son calls his paci "foo-fie" and I wanted him to be sure of what the story is about). My son like reading the story at bedtime, and was whispering something about Pacita to his pacifier this morning, so I think it's sinking in! It's great to have the printed story for him to review and absorb versus "mommy won't give me my pacifier anymore". We have one other pacifier-loss book but this is the best, highly recommend.

Great book. Easy to substitute the words for whatever you call your pacifier. Worked well to help my 2.5yr old stop using her pacifier. She loves fairies so this was perfect. The printable pages from the website are a nice touch.

You can change the name for the pacifier to whatever you call it without changing the rhyming of the story. This was a huge plus as we call it a baba. We are following Big Little Feeling's approach to saying goodbye to the pacifier and this story doesn't quite follow that script. In this book Pacita gives the children a letter after they leave the pacifier on their nightstand. Big Little Feelings suggests putting the pacifiers in a decorated box for the paci fairy and then the paci fairy will leave them a small gift. Still overall LOVE this book and would recommend it.My daughter is 26 months old and was able to grasp the story.

My son is almost 4, and the paci is the only part of growing up he has fought me on. He only uses it at nap time and bedtime but even the mention of the pacis going away would through him into crying fits. However, this book (and explaining the paci fairy is friends with the tooth fairy and Santa Claus) changed the game. We did the process over about a month. Read the book every other night, then left 2 of his 4 paci’s the first night (the paci fairy left a note and a new book he’d been wanting about fire trucks) and then a couple days later he was ready to leave his final 2 pacis out (he got another letter from the fairy and a toy fire truck to go with his book). It was such an easy transition and now he just says night night to the paci fairy and his pacis before bed and out he goes.The story itself is kind, understanding of the struggle, encouraging, and just what kids need - to know it’s a little scary/sad to give up being a baby, but equally exciting to be a big kid! I even teared up the first time I read it. Would recommend this story to anyone who asked.

I was so worried about the day paci would go away so I wanted to prepare our 2.5 year old as best as we could. We bought this book a month before the big day and read and talked about it as much as we could. Some words were a little complex for him but we talked about the pages and what was happening and he totally got it. We made a box and decorated it for Pacita so when the big day came he understood what was going down. Was he sad? Of course. Did he understand and handle everything well? Beyond my expectations. It’s been about a week and he hasn’t asked for paci. This book was a huge help and I love that it allows for complex feelings about growing up to be ok.

Pacita the Pacifier Fairy helped my daughter say good bye to her pacifiers for good! My daughter was older than most when we finally decided it was time. A lot of books out there seem geared towards younger children. This one was perfect for her age / comprehension level.

I don’t review things TBH but within a week of receiving the book and now 3 days after having the fairy come.....my 3.5 year old is pacifier free. I never thought this would happen. She loved the book. Asked for the fairy daily. I hyped her up saying there would be a present and letter when the fairy came to take them all away. We picked out a present to tell the fairy she wanted and bam done. Yes there were tears days after. The 2nd day was the hardest but there were tips in the story itself about what you could use for comfort and why it was ok to feel sad so we just kept going back to the book. And she has a place in her mind to imagine where they are, how happy they are, and what a cool fairy it is. I say this book is very useful for older kids that need to break the habit without shaming them.

I think this helped my child understand it was time to let his “chuchu” go. To be honest, we only read it twice. I believe that it was the right time for him to let it go and this book was an useful tool in the process.

Ce livre écrit en anglais remplit tout à fait son rôle ! L'histoire est adorable, les illustrations craquantes, les conseils pour arrêter la sucette, judicieux et bien expliqués... On est ravis ! Vivement un prochain, pourquoi pas des conseils pour se coucher sans pleurer ?