So I really hate these twelve hour days. I found out the museum thing is a bust unless I want to volunteer! (which requires that I have money which I don't) So oh well
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Speaking here as a parent, we let our daughter use a pacifier until she started school, though we had cut it down by then to only when she took a nap. (First we cut it down to "only in the car or sleeping". Then when she was old enough to not need a car seat any more, we cut it down to "only sleeping". Then it was "not at night, only nap time". So when she started kindergarten and stopped having naps, it went totally.)
But then she hated bottles, (she was totally breastfed until I went back to work when she was 6 mos. and she never liked bottles when I had to switch her to them, so she was totally weened to a cup by the time she was a little over a year) so we figured, let her have something to suck on.
Well my only issue with it is that pacifiers if used too long can mess up the children's teeth. Using a pacifier at nap or to sleep isn't a big deal, but I know a couple kids who have parents that want them to stay babies, so the keep giving them bottles and pacifiers at 3's and up and their teeth are getting pulled outwards. Or keeping it out of laziness to shut the kid up. I work at a daycare and see a lot of parents do this.
So if the kid needs it cool, but if its the parent that needs it, then it irks me.
Plus I wonder if swallowing all that air is good for them.
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But then she hated bottles, (she was totally breastfed until I went back to work when she was 6 mos. and she never liked bottles when I had to switch her to them, so she was totally weened to a cup by the time she was a little over a year) so we figured, let her have something to suck on.
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So if the kid needs it cool, but if its the parent that needs it, then it irks me.
Plus I wonder if swallowing all that air is good for them.
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