Dummy Blind

I agree with the OP that dummies can not only distort the teeth but can also lead to children having language problems. If when you wanted to express yourself, perhaps by grumbling, perhaps by screaming someone stuck a dummy in your mouth and you were forced to be quiet you would pretty soon stop trying to say anything. And arguably that's what is happening to children past baby stage who have a dummy stuck in their mouth most of the day. There is a place for them for babies if the parent feels the need (although I always think they are just another thing to have to manage), but for older children it is for some parents just a way of keeping the kid quiet at a time wen they should be developing language and communication skills.

I think of dummies as old fashioned, I see few babies with a dummy now. My own children all sucked thumbs or fingers, some until their teens, and all had straight teeth. Buck teeth are usually inherited.
Once after their first day at school I saw one child greeted with her dummy and another with a huge bar of chocolate (paper dropped straight onto the playground).

Coo, what a lot of judgemental posts here.

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meem thank you

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