I had my children in the 1970's. At that time not so many babies in my group of friends had dummies, in fact it was quite frowned upon. Nowadays every other baby, including my GD, has one. She out grew hers by 9 months old and whilst it kept her content I certainly said nothing, though I was pleased to see it gone. Her parents did say that they would have 'weaned' her off it by a year at any rate. However, there does seem to be a lot of toddlers and a few times reception class children with a dummy full time in their mouths. I know it does mishapen the teeth in time but also their language skills. A friend says she can barely understand her GS with or without his dummy. He is so used to talking with it in his mouth that he still frames his words in the same manner as if a dummy was in situ. I've watched some of the Jo Frost Nanny programmes and she seems to feel that beyond say at least 18 months it should be gone. For the two reasons I've listed above. What are your opinions? Did you use them and it so for how long. Do your GC have them and does it concern you.
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