Police cure three-year old of pacifier/dummy habit

Polizisten helfen bei Schnullerentzug

Joshua, 3, of Filderstadt was taken to the local police station by his mother. There he bravely surrendered his two pacifiers as his mother had convinced him that the police would pass them on to younger children who needed them more than he did. The police gravely received the pacifiers in exchange for a teddy bear and even gave Joshua a tour of the squad car.

If I bring them my last two kilograms of cocaine do I get a teddy, too?

Pacifiers - pure evil I tell you. Pure evil.

Our daughter has never had one and neither will any future additions. Not a chance

Too funny, Sara . . . What's not funny is lying to your kid (because you're scared of a tantrum) and having the police do your simple parenting work for you. If these cops aren't too busy, maybe they can come scrub the "Fuck Ferris" graffiti off the side of my building, and bust the little punks that keep steeling my flyers and dumping them down the storm drain . . . Oh, and solve a bunch of rape and murder cases.

Actually, they're recommended to reduce the risk of SIDS when given at night. My son never really took a pacifier until recently, and even now he only uses it for about 10 minutes at night as he drifts off to sleep. I suppose they're evil if people use them constantly to shut their kid up and they function as a security blanket for the child, but otherwise I don't see what's so wrong with them.

Got it out of my son's mouth as quick as i could, prob about 3.

Bizarre thing to do to take your 3 yr old to the cops.

In about 10 years this kid will finally figure out what his mother did and go on a shooting spree. Oh wait, Filderstadt, not Smalltown, USA. He'll walk on the grass instead.

Get the concept of power drilled into the wee ones early!

Kind of puts a new light on the smacking your child argument. No you shouldn't. If the child won't do what you want call a rozza. Failure to clean your bedroom should receive at least a week.

Suspension of lying would receive a flight to a secret location where a boat would be waiting with some nice people to persuade your child that they should be telling the truth.

Aww That's a cute story.

When our son was about 3 yrs old his Schnuller was tied to a rocket on Sylvester & shot to the moon.

I think he even rumbled that the thread broke & the Schnuller landed just a short distance away.

Our daughter was presented with a stuffed dog - called "Hundie" by my parent just after birth. She still has it 16 years later although "Hundie" has a severe attack of fur loss...

My parents struggled to rid me of my pacifier habit when I was a kid. When I was three, we were out on our sailboat one day and, whilst looking over the edge of the boat at the water below, the pacifier fell out of my mouth and into the water. It immediately began to sink, and I immediately began wailing, but my family reassured me that my beloved pacifier would go down to the baby fishies who certainly needed it.

I guess it never occurred to me that my parents could have replaced the overboard pacifier, so I never asked for one, and thus the issue solved itself.

Anyway, cute story indeed. Damara4178, you need to lighten up a bit. I'd be interested to know if you yourself are a parent, seeing as how you're so eager to knock other people's parenting choices.

My mom was a non-believer in pacifiers.

I had a good friend, though, who, in the middle of the night, with his wife, threw away the pacifier of their 3-yr-old son. The son threw such a fit the next morning that they went and bought him a new one. Not to criticize, but that didn't seem to be a well thought out plan...

I didn't have a dummy either, if I started whinging I got a marmite soldier stuffed in my gob...yuch (sorry Sin)

When I see what sucking her thumb did to Cat's teeth I wish she'd have accepted a pacifier. Her hand-mouth coordination was perfect when she was half an hour old and stayed that way for years. Chopping off her thumb and throwing it overboard was, however, never an option.

Should've covered it in marmite

We did the same with our eldest (took him to the police station) but he wouldn't give it up so the cop threw him in a cell for the night. Never saw him again.

We cut the end off following the tip from a parenting mag that suggested you cut a little bit off every day until its gone. Problem was after cutting off 2mm our daughter says "bah" and left it altogether cause it was broken in her mind.

Fine with me

You cut the end off your daughters thumb

I never had any problems with a binky, but I was a thumbsucker 'til I was about five. My parents tried everything from telling me not to do that to putting pepper on my thumb (which I just cleaned off) and even telling me that I was going to get rabbit's teeth from that.

Apparently, my dad had had enough one day and told me that if I didn't stop, Freddy Krueger (whom I was deathly afraid of then) was going to come after me. I never sucked my thumb again.

Nowhere near as evil as revolting, prune skinned, soggy fingers or thumbs dripping with saliva. Way I see it, as soon as your kid tries to put a finger in it's mouth, which I'm sure most if not all do, then chuck a dummy in there instead. Weening them off a dummy might cause a few tears, but better that than horrible spit drenched hands. Gross, gross, gross.

So if I have 10 kids but they are all in juvie, does this mean my "knocking" of other people's parenting choices will be taken more seriously just because of the number of kids I have? Just curious if experience always = competence, or can you just get by with some sense and empathy.

Okay, so I've lightened up . . . The stick up my ass has had the stick up it's ass removed . . . Aaahhh . . . All better

I was a thumbsucker for... well... very long, I actually didn't stop until I got braces (not for the front teeth mind you, they were actually fine). Then I kind of had no choice because the thumb did simply not fit anymore. I am not sure if I had a pacifier, I think I may have for some time when my brother was born (when I was 2 years old) because, well, if he had a pacifier I had to have one too!

What are these pacifiers you speak of?

Carruthers?

According to my sister who is a speach therapist, excessive use of dummies is known to cause the growth of the kids jaw and teeth to be impacted, which then cause speech problems. Also a kid who has the dummy in their mouth too often is less likely to speak, thus delaying speech development.

Having said that, I'm happy to stick the dummy in my 3 month old daughter's mouth to shut her up for a few minutes if needed - but we're definitely not 24/7 users!

Dummy -> pacifier.

As a speaker of Her Majesties English, I don't like the American term, but it does actually make more sense!

And your information on retarded speech development in dummy (= dumb = mute) users explains why.