As I sit here with my 19 month old screaming bloody murder in my ear because she is tired and will NOT go to sleep. It makes me wonder why I have such a prejudice about pacifiers. Before I had and even for the first two of my children I HATED pacifiers, I was a snob about it, too! If you used them for any length of time I'll admit it I judged you and your ability to parent. They just seemed lazy somehow! I would think how is your child ever going to learn to deal with life! Seriously, what the heck was I thinking! The truth is....
Now that I have had my third child and she loves her Binki, I am not quite so judgmental, kind of convenient isn't it? My first two did not really like the binki, so that kind of makes it easy to be a perfect mom, hum! However, my daughter would cry for hers and tell you "it's up there" and "I want it" and of course I would do the "right" thing and say "no" to which I got "Why" and my response was "you are to old" to which I got "WHY!" The truth is I don't know WHY, maybe because I did not want others to judge me they way I had them, or I did not want to walk through the mall listening to the snicker of she is to old for that! I will say I relented several times. We are now off the pacifier although if she finds it, it does go right to her mouth and we have to take it with a fight. I can not seem to let it go and put it in the trash. So, as a reformed pacifier mom I would just like to say walk a mile with a screaming baby and you to my friend may come to understand the truth about a pacifier!
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