Dummies

I never bought a dummy for any of my 5, one day in town we bumped into my sister-in-law with her 2, the oldest was 4, nearly 5, and had a dummy in her mouth. One of mine, aged 3, shouted out "What`s she got that stuck in her mouth for?" I regularly see small children in school uniform sucking on a dummy, it looks horrible.

My DD had a dummy when she was a toddler. She never had it outside and carried it in a pocket in her pinafore.Moving on 30 years or so GD1 was also not allowed a dummy when out. I remember when she was just over 2, , we were walking around the shops, when we saw a little boy with his dummy firmly in his mouth. GD asked DiL if she could ask him for a go . We did smile
On another tack. We had a little lad at school who had a dreadful speech impediment. Even in the Juniors he would come to the classroom door with his dummy in his mouth. He would give it to his mum as he stepped through the door. At home time it was immediately back in place. He spoke mostly with it in his mouth
I think the Americans call them soothers . That is what they should be. Let them sooth and then remove.

I'm as puzzled as you majorcagirl - even 'celebrities' leave the dummies in for photos. I never used one and neither does my daughter for her son - we were told back in the seventies that putting a dummy in a baby's mouth was like putting a cushion over the face of someone trying to tell you something - cutting off their only means of communication. Rather dramatic but I was a very young mum and took it literally.

Dinkies with sugary drinks are extremely bad for children's teeth.