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[quote=Anonymous]I'd start gently creating some rules for her to use it, with the idea that it will gradually decrease the use.

Question: at childcare when she's upset and crying (child took a toy, you just left, she gets hurt) does she suck her thumb to calm down or use her pacifier?  Or does she get a hug from a teacher and calms down herself?  I bet she CAN calm herself down and she doesn't NEED it as much, but it's a habit at home to use it and to "need" it.  BUT if she's sucking her thumb at childcare when she's upset, that's different.

Here are perhaps the first limitations:

She can use it in the car (and leave it in her carseat - not taking it into the store, etc.)
At home, she can use it in her room (so if she really wants it, she needs to go into her room and do whatever but not bring it outside her room)
in her crib for bedtime (but not while reading books before bed)

So she'll have a "car pacifier" a "bedroom pacifier" - which also is the one she uses in her crib

And, from now on, she can NEVER speak with it in her mouth - this leads to lisps and a whole lot of misshaping herm outh to say words.

BUT you can't make her feel that when she talks her pacifier gets taken away - then she'll simply shut down.  Instead, if she is talking around it then tell her to take it out to tell you so you can understand. Don't take it from her, don't insist she put it in her pocket, just she needs to take it out, hold it in her hand, tell you/have the conversation, then she can pop it right back in.  
That way she isn't learning the wrong way to form the sounds.  (test this by putting a spoon in your mouth and try to speak - you will say words incorrectly or be unable to form some sounds or words)
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