6 year old who still sucks a dummy

u_c_thesecond · 23-02-2012 10:47AM #1

Dropping my niece to school this morning i witnessed the oddest thing.

A child in uniform got out of the car with a dummy in his mouth!!!:mad: The mother then took the dummy off him , gave him his bag and he walked into the school. When i arrived at my nieces class to inform the teacher that her mothers away and im collecting her at the end of the day(they strict about it) i saw the dummy child in the class

So basically hes a 6 year old who still sucks a dummy

His mother should be shot!!!

Nothingbetter2d · 23-02-2012 10:51AM

my sister in law still gives her two kids (4 & 3) dummies... my mother wont let them have them in her house lol...... she keeps telling my sister in law to get rid of them cos the older one now has a terrible lisp cos of those things. he'll get bullied in school if they ever saw him with those god awful filthy things.

my sister has a two year old that stopped using hers after she got her teeth.

hondasam · 23-02-2012 10:53AM

What do you do with a child who sucks their thumb?
It's a comfort thing for lots of children.

Seachmall · 23-02-2012 10:54AM

"Sometimes a dummy is just a dummy."

Eroticfishcake · 23-02-2012 10:56AM

hondasam wrote: »

What do you do with a child who sucks their thumb?
It's a comfort thing for lots of children.

and some adults

ash23 · 23-02-2012 10:56AM

I think you've little to be worrying about if you think the mother should be shot over a soother.
Wouldn't be for me personally having a 6yr old with a soother but I had my bottle til I was 5 and my blankie til I was 8.

When you consider all the harm some parents do to their kids, a soother isn't really up there on the list of things to berate a parent for.

justified · 23-02-2012 10:57AM

I don't believe in bribery however my parents weened me off excellently. They told me that I would be getting my first bike in X amount of months and the bike shop was special and accepted soothers in exchange for a bike. They continued reminding me in the weeks leading up and i was perfectly happy to be rid of them after all the suspense.
Cue some poor teenage boy in the shop thinking my mum was insane as she tried to give him a box of soothers and get him to play along :pac:

the groutch · 23-02-2012 10:57AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Dropping my niece to school this morning i witnessed the oddest thing.

A child in uniform got out of the car with a dummy in his mouth!!!:mad: The mother then took the dummy off him , gave him his bag and he walked into the school. When i arrived at my nieces class to inform the teacher that her mothers away and im collecting her at the end of the day(they strict about it) i saw the dummy child in the class

So basically hes a 6 year old who still sucks a dummy

His mother should be shot!!!

Sounds like the kid has much bigger issues than sucking a dummy

hondasam · 23-02-2012 10:58AM

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

and some adults

Exactly at least you can eventually get them to stop the soother but not the thumb.

Irish Guitarist · 23-02-2012 10:59AM

I once saw someone who was about nineteen or twenty sucking a dummy. I think people do this when they're trying to give up smoking. That probably wasn't the case with the six year old though.

Sky King · 23-02-2012 11:01AM

Maybe they were practicing?

(Again the 19YO, not the 6YO)

seamus · 23-02-2012 11:02AM

What's the rush to make them grow up? If the child gets comfort from sucking on a soother, let them at it.

foxyboxer · 23-02-2012 11:03AM

Kids eh?

Just like farts. You can just about tolerate your own.

davet82 · 23-02-2012 11:04AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

His mother should be shot!!!

pm me details and we arrange a price :cool:

pickarooney · 23-02-2012 11:04AM

the groutch wrote: »

Sounds like the kid has much bigger issues than sucking a dummy

Do you need a picture in order to understand that there were two children in this story, a boy and a girl?

Jagera · 23-02-2012 11:04AM

the groutch wrote: »

Sounds like the kid has much bigger issues than sucking a dummy

The niece isn't the one with the dummy, dummy.

cloptrop · 23-02-2012 11:05AM

Maybe hes a slight bit autistic , youd never relly notice unless you dealt with some autistic kids. You hear people in supermarkets saying things like jaysus the age of him in a pram or that kid needs a smack . Usually the kid might be a bit special so maybe its best off op you stuck to raising your own neice for the few days you have her and stop judging everyone elses kids on your morning of babysitting.

theteal · 23-02-2012 11:07AM

the groutch wrote: »

Sounds like the kid has much bigger issues than sucking a dummy

must read op again, i know it's early, there are 2 kids in the story, the op's niece (girl) and her soother sucking class-mate (boy)

phasers · 23-02-2012 11:08AM

I sucked a soother until I was 7, didn't do me any harm.

Only at home though, my Mam wouldn't let me take it to school ;-;

I had a bit gap between my top and bottom teeth but that went away when I stopped.

stovelid · 23-02-2012 11:09AM

It could be worse. He could still be sucking his ma's tit.

u_c_thesecond · 23-02-2012 11:10AM

cloptrop wrote: »

Maybe hes a slight bit autistic , youd never relly notice unless you dealt with some autistic kids. You hear people in supermarkets saying things like jaysus the age of him in a pram or that kid needs a smack . Usually the kid might be a bit special so maybe its best off op you stuck to raising your own neice for the few days you have her and stop judging everyone elses kids on your morning of babysitting.

Not that its any of your business but i have two family members with autistic children and they dont suck a dummy

And my point was more of the fact the mother left him stand outside the school in his uniform with the dummy in his mouth for everyone else to see- if i saw it other kids did too and that leads to bullying

get off your high horse!

pickarooney · 23-02-2012 11:11AM

phasers wrote: »

I had a bit gap between my top and bottom teeth but that went away when I closed my mouth.

FYP

phasers · 23-02-2012 11:11AM

cloptrop wrote: »

Maybe hes a slight bit autistic , youd never relly notice unless you dealt with some autistic kids. You hear people in supermarkets saying things like jaysus the age of him in a pram or that kid needs a smack . Usually the kid might be a bit special so maybe its best off op you stuck to raising your own neice for the few days you have her and stop judging everyone elses kids on your morning of babysitting.

WTF does sucking a soother have to do with a child being autistic?

pickarooney wrote: »

FYP

My school pictures say otherwise

saa · 23-02-2012 11:12AM

hondasam wrote: »

What do you do with a child who sucks their thumb?
It's a comfort thing for lots of children.

Yeah it is just as bad but takes more work to stop as you can just stop buying the dummies. Thumb sucking left me needing braces because my parents werent bothered to say no I'm going to stop this, the dummy thing is rare I see a lot more parents pacifying their children with crisps or sweets to be quiet or if they get upset no wonder we have so many emotional eaters, children after a certain age don't need things to comfort them, you have to let them get to a stage where they learn how to self sooth without a blanket, dummy, crisps etc. "oh but she loves her _______" :mad:

davet82 · 23-02-2012 11:14AM

stovelid wrote: »

It could be worse. He could still be sucking his ma's tit.

nah, them kids are lucky suckers

hondasam · 23-02-2012 11:14AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

And my point was more of the fact the mother left him stand outside the school in his uniform with the dummy in his mouth for everyone else to see- if i saw it other kids did too and that leads to bullying

get off your high horse!

It might lead to bullying and then again the boy might not be bothered at all.
The other option is the mother is hoping he will throw it away if someone sees him.

Ghandee · 23-02-2012 11:15AM

Did princess Di not suck on a Dodi? And she was what age?

biko · 23-02-2012 11:15AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

His mother should be shot!!!

None of that here thx

CreepingDeath · 23-02-2012 11:17AM

You know who else sucks a dummy ?

Enda Kennys Wife.

hondasam · 23-02-2012 11:24AM

saa wrote: »

Yeah it is just as bad but takes more work to stop as you can just stop buying the dummies. Thumb sucking left me needing braces because my parents werent bothered to say no I'm going to stop this, the dummy thing is rare I see a lot more parents pacifying their children with crisps or sweets to be quiet or if they get upset no wonder we have so many emotional eaters, children after a certain age don't need things to comfort them, you have to let them get to a stage where they learn how to self sooth without a blanket, dummy, crisps etc. "oh but she loves her _______" :mad:

Im sure your parents tried to stop you but you would not stop for them, seriously it's like trying to give up anything we like, takes time. what age were you when you stopped sucking your thumb?
You often find when people get tired they still have the tendency to put their thumb in or near their mouth.

Liam Byrne · 23-02-2012 11:24AM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

Dropping my niece to school this morning i witnessed the oddest thing.

A child in uniform got out of the car with a dummy in his mouth!!!:mad: The mother then took the dummy off him , gave him his bag and he walked into the school. When i arrived at my nieces class to inform the teacher that her mothers away and im collecting her at the end of the day(they strict about it) i saw the dummy child in the class

So basically hes a 6 year old who still sucks a dummy

His mother should be shot!!!

Give him another year and he'll be sucking someone else's dummy!

* According to another thread here

6 year old who still sucks a dummy

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