When my kids were babies, I prided myself on never using a pacifier.
I wasn't one of those moms whose kids walked around with a
tooth-deforming hunk-o-rubber in their mouths. No, my children would be
soothed by a washable, all natural cotton security blanket.
By the time they were four, my kids were still hanging on to their "blankies." I asked their pediatrician when I needed to take it away: "When they're 40." he said. He explained that since it wasn't doing them any harm -- and since he'd never heard of a kid going off to college with a security blanket, I shouldn't worry about it. He added that it wouldn't even be so bad if they kept a little square of it in their wallets as adults. "Hey," he said "anything that makes them feel more secure, as long as it isn't hurting them...why not?"
Luckily, I had selected Comfort Silkie on the recommendation of a friend, so I could buy them by the dozen, yellow for him, white for her. My kids slept with them, they were quieted by them in the car and on airplanes.(I think they saved us from the wrath of those-in-the-next-row on many a flight) No dental issues, and no worries about having to take them away. All was right with the world.











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