Isn't it funny

[Turquoise14]

Isn't it funny how that pacifier/toy/blanket etc. that the little guy just had to have this morning is taken away and put up with zero fuss once the parent leaves?

[LindseyA]

So true! I don't allow pacifiers unless it's for a baby under one. One year is my cut off age. And even then, it is strictly to sooth. If they are fine all day, they go all day without it. I still have a 2 yo and an 18mo who "HAVE" to have one at home. But as soon as they step foot into my house they get put up (without a fuss).

[Thriftylady]

Yes, it seems the parents need their child to have these things far more often then the child needs them .

[KSDC]

I avoid pacifiers. For a tough infant, I will use them when they are tiny. But, they are gone here before 8 months.
Can't count the number of parents over the years where the child has never had a pacifier in my DC, but they still have one at home at age 2!

[Meeko]

Yes, it seems the parents need their child to have these things far more often then the child needs them .

It's actually that way from birth

[Kabob]

Eh. I now have the parents take it away. Not my battle. I tell them their child needs to come ready for daycare...I got tired of one parent in particular insisting that her child needed her blanket all day long.

[finsup]

So true! I don't allow pacifiers unless it's for a baby under one. One year is my cut off age. And even then, it is strictly to sooth. If they are fine all day, they go all day without it. I still have a 2 yo and an 18mo who "HAVE" to have one at home. But as soon as they step foot into my house they get put up (without a fuss).

Lol yup, 2yr old DCB comes in, happily hands me his pacifier and it gets put in his bag. Doesn't come out of the bag until DCD gets it out at the end of the day. Then DCD is amazed he doesn't need it all day here .