Toddlers shouldn't use binkies

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Toddlers shouldn't use binkies

Ok, binkies, pacifiers, whatever you call them, it drives me nuts to see toddlers who can walk and talk walking around with a pacifier in their mouths who take it out to talk. Puhleeese. Take that pacifier away. I don't have any scientific facts for you, it just seems like these would be the same kids who are still breastfeeding when they're old enough to lift their mothers' shirts (obviously, another pet peeve of mine). Or the kids whose parents run over to them when they fall - the kid wouldn't have cried if he'd been left alone. When my kids fell, I ignored them unless I saw blood - or alternatively, I'd ask if they'd hurt the floor.

There are too many wimps in the world. So getting back to the pacifier, can you explain to me why a toddler still has one? Because it's become a habit. The parent stuck it in the kids mouth when they first started crying at 2 days old and every time the kid whimpered, back in went the pacifier. So, more than a crutch for the child, it became the parent's crutch so they didn't have to work too hard. Habits are hard to break, and when the pacifier is given with any little whimper from two days old and not taken away, a 3 to 5 year old still expects it. Babies under six months, ok, I can understand giving a binkie for comfort, but not much older than that. Try taking something away from a 5 year old with a mind of his/her own.

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Toddlers shouldn't use binkies

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Sarai says:

This is asinine to me personally. Children with pacifiers, thats RIDICULOUS! I think using rubber nipples is unacceptable in the first place, a mother should try and find natural means to appease the needs of her child, babies have been crying since the beginning of time and pacifiers weren't used until the 1800s, THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY!!!! Also, for those who believe its not a problem, have you thought about how having what i see as an addictive behavior, may effect the future behaviors of children and what it may subconsciously instill in a child? What about a 8 year old with a binky, is it alright for him/her? Why/ Why not? If 4 isn't to old what is?

Posted July 15, 2009

Sandra says:

I totally agree! I am nanny and his mom lets him have his "ba bas" still and it drives me nuts. I am here 45 hours a week and every morning, I yank it out of his mouth. He is almost 3 and a half! His upper teeth are crookd and his speech has NOT improved in close to a year. THROW THEM AWAY!!! I throw them away, and the mom buys him more. It's very frustrating. For the sake of his speech, his developmental growth, and his teeth, he needs to be done! Now!

Posted November 06, 2008

peanut54611 says:

I have 5 children and also run a daycare out of my home so I have alot of experience with children. All children are different as we all know, some don't ever need pacifiers, others as infants have a strong urge to suck and sometimes its the only way to calm them. But I do not see a reason after 5 or 6 months of age for them to have one. A child that young will normally forget all about ever having one, Ya know the hole out of sight out of mind theory, Yeah it works! Parents also need to realize that by allowing your child to have a pacifier after the teething process starts, you are also assisting in the dacay of the first little chompers, a pacifier just like a bottle or sippy cup pushes those teeth forward which results in problem teeth as they get older. I had a daycare child that was 3 yrs old and still coming to my home with a pacifier and a bottle. I of cource did not agree with this but allowed it for a week until he got used to being with me. The next Monday morning when he showed up, I immediately took his bottle, dumped it, washed it and put it in his bag, his pacifier stayed in his bag. 10 hrs later his mother came to pick him up and was told that he did not have either all day, and to her surprise did not ask for them. She was concerned if she did not give it to him he would thrown a fit at bedtime. I told her just don't mention them and don't let him see them. I can proudly say, that was the last time he ever had either one. The best advice I can give to parents is to remember the OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND THEORY REALLY DOES WORK!

Posted August 12, 2008

Krista says:

I always said I'd NEVER be one of those mothers who kids have a bottle hanging out of their mouth or a sucking on a paci when they were old enough to know better. I also can't stand when I see kids in the grocery cart with a bottle of some sort of pop hanging out of their mouth. Now, my daughter will be 2 in two weeks and although she doesn't use her paci all day, she still needs if for naps and bedtime. She was born with a kidney proble that has required her to have 3 surgeries, and it became very hard to take that paci away. Now, I am regreting the decision to give it to her. Do you have any advice on how to take it away??

Posted June 03, 2008

No way, Monkeybrain!

Mommaof2 says:

I let my kids keep their pacifiers until they have all of their teeth. Given the choice between soothing them by medicating them or letting them be comforted by the pacifier during the teething stage, I choose the pacifier. And in my case, my kids are slooooow teethers. My son is almost 16 months old and he just not got tooth #6. When he gets all his teeth, I'll take the pacifier away.

Posted January 14, 2009

natasha says:

i agree with tasmin! I MEAN REALLY WHO CAREES!

Posted November 27, 2008

jada says:

who cares if they do or don`t

Posted November 27, 2008

tasmin says:

toddlers can do what they wantt at that age i know i really am defending my sister right now!so get over it pehlease thank you also it doesn`t bother me if i see a baby who can walk and talk with his/her binkie !!!

Posted November 27, 2008

tasmin says:

i so don`t agree! toddlers should if it really pleases them! i know a four year old that stoped using a binkie at 2 years old.but then she came across another binkie and decided to use it!what i am trying to say is it doesn`t matter if a toddler uses a binkey.IT DOESN`T MATTER!!!!

Posted November 27, 2008

 

Binkies/Pacifiers To Use or Not to Use? 

There are definitely mixed feelings about this topic, so tell me, should your infant be given a pacifier; if so, when should they be weaned from it?

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Ok, What About Hygiene? 

Babies like to touch

Ok, I'm not a clean freak, whatsoever, but how about when the kid drops the pacifier/binkie on the ground, and picks it up to put back in his/her mouth? Is that ok? No way!

That reminds me of a story that I like to tell to anyone who will listen. Although this happened years ago, it still irritates the heck out of me. It's a little off topic, but hey, it's my lens! Anyway, when my daughter was about four I was waiting for her dance class to end with the other moms outside the classroom door. My younger daughter was just a baby, a little less than a year old. One of the other moms had a baby about her age who she had sat on the FLOOR, so I sat my daughter next to her. Of course, as babies do, she touched the other baby and the mother had a cow. She said, "Oh, no, no, germs." Ok, she didn't want my beautiful, clean little girl to touch her child who was sitting on the FLOOR because of germs. Do you see a problem with this thinking? She was so worried about germs from my clean child, but she had her kid on the floor where numerous people had walked with shoes that had come in from the outdoors with who knows what on them! Boy was I MAD! MAD! MAD! I was too stunned to say anything, and it's probably a good thing, too. Suffice it to say, I had no further contact with this woman and her child. How dare she?!

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