Binky Withdrawls

Adam has done a great job at avoiding the terrible twos. He is such a happy kid and so sweet and loving. When he turned 3 last week, we reached the end of his binky. He happily gave it to me in exchange for being a "big boy". He has only asked about it a few times and seems to be handling the separation maturely. The problem we are now having is, no binky means no naps. And no naps means multiple meltdowns daily. My happy little boy has turned into an emotional nightmare. I have asked myself more than once during his screaming hysterics, "is this really a better alternative to him having a binky?" With a binky, he will take a nap. With a binky, he will go to bed and stay in bed at night, instead of getting out of his bed multiple times for various reasons before he finally stays and falls asleep. With a binky, he will go back to sleep when he wakes up at 6:30 am after no nap for days and going to bed late because he won't stay in his bed. Sometimes growing up is not that great. Tonight, after he calmed himself down from his latest screaming fit, he told me, "I'm glad you took my binky away."  That made me so sad because I know it's been rough on him to learn how to sleep without it. Hopefully he will adjust soon because his demon screaming is kind of scaring me! I might miss his binky more than he does!!