To think granddaughter is too old for a dummy

Zombie thread! {grin} I must read the dates on the original posts.

It is

You do realize is a zombie thread, right?

I always say about children behaviours that seem a bit out of synche... table manners, dummies, needing excess hugging etc.
'How many adults do you see behaving like that?'... they will move on and outgrow these things. But I love J52's creative solution.

Agreed.

Why would anyone want to do that?

Suze56, glad I’m not the only one who was appalled at the idea of anyone ‘mysteriously’ making a beloved soft toy disappear!

MissAdventure

Too old, in my opinion.
Fortunately, being a grandparent hasn't stopped this terrible habit I have of having opinions.

I have opinions too MissA, not sure everyone would say "fortunately"

Much too old. Silly habit to start with.

This is precisely the kind of issue a wise grandparent stays out of!

Sorry, but it is not your decision, or your business, but your daughter's.

Grammaretto

There's a dummy/pacifier tree in Copenhagen where you hang your ex dummies and probably make a wish.
www.joshuasofaer.com/2018/02/the-pacifier-tree/

I never had them for mine but DD has used them strategically and usually just at night.

She gets them to part with them though. I haven't seen the baby with hers recently and she's almost 2.
Visions of the Simpsons
youtu.be/iQLavf8iNI8

My DGS was very attached to his soft toy dog and it "mysteriously" vanished one day. He was heartbroken for a wee while but got over it. Good luck with your DGD.

How sad that a child's soft toy had to disappear!

I was always very anti dummy until dd2 had classic 3 months’ colic - it was the only thing that seemed to give her some relief.

She didn’t give it up entirely until she was nearly 6 - though for the last few years strictly at home only - her choice.

She is long grown up and her teeth were always perfect.

Dd1, OTOH, sucked her thumb from birth until after she’d learned to drive, and her teeth were affected to some extent.

So if it had to be one or the other, I know which I’d choose.

Good post pippa 22

Yes , newborns may need a dummy! Having said that all babies are not the same. My first was given a dummy - Iwas reluctant to give in but it was the best thing ever - peace at last !!! My second child sucked his thumb immediately after birth and probably before! My third did' nt suck her thumb or need a dummy. 5 is a bit too old for a dummy and I would try the dummy on a bag idea, fairies take the dummy and leave a toy in exchange. Sounds good to me !

Take it off her and tell her father christmas took it for a baby elf,
And he will bring it back when baby elf grows up.

Neither of my two sons had dummies much to my MIL's disgust, she thought it was not possible to bring up a baby without one she accused me of denying them something that was absolutely essential.
It was my DH who decided we were not to give them dummies, because of his mother's firm belief in them he grew up with ''wonky'' front teeth as he had one even on starting school although he soon took to putting in his pocket when he got out of her eyesight.
All of my grandchildren had them, but I could do nothing about that.

I on,y realised when I saw Jingles name. ?

Yes, ancient thread.
I only noticed when defunct posters were on it! ??

Yes, I think so. To be fair, Hithere was the first to spot that this is a zombie thread. I love that description!

Ah well spotted Maggiemaybe. I missed that!
Wouldn't it be great to have a "turn off commenting" button for when a thread has run its course?

Maggiemaybe
Watch how many posters ignore your post ?

I accept that the subjects can still be relevant, but I sometimes wish GNHQ would block commenting on old threads, as I think they do on Mumsnet. I always feel a bit sad to read posts from members who we know are no longer with us (and I'm always well into a thread before I realise it's an old one).

It's nearly always a spammer who opens up the old thread.

What Luckygirl said ⬆️

I have learned over the years to keep my lip zipped and only offer an opinion if asked. I have lots of opinions and it nearly killed me at first. But my children are all excellent parents and doing a fine job.

Yes it is Hithere hopefully the child will have dispensed with the dummy now she is eight.

Zombie thread

I sucked my thumb at night until I was baout 8. I also wore braces as I had prominent teeth.

Those two fact are unrelated. My teeth stuck out because I had a relatively small jaw and the teeth were overcrowded. When I started orthpdontic treatment, the first thing that was done was to remove two of my teeth so that the prominent teeth had somewhere to relocate to when they were eased back.