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From: snell@utzoo.UUCP (Richard Snell)
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Subject: Pacifiers
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Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 23:05:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 23:05:29 1986
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When the child begins to go to school, and has been in the habit
of sucking on some object as a comfort/distraction activity
(i.e., either a thumb or a pacifier)

 1. you can keep the pacifier at home.
 2. you can not keep the thumb at home.

Seems to be little evidence that children hooked on one become hooked
on the other... so... it is not too hard to choose which to give them:-)

I will certainly admit that a toddler wandering around with a souse
stuck in his/her mouth is not a very heart-warming sight... but a
6 year old chewing on a thumb is even less delightful:-)
-- 
Name:   Richard Snell
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
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