hehe….that’s okay. They won’t be in college with thumbs and binky’s or lets hope! I do know a grown women who sucks her thumb *shakes head*

wow 3 girls! That’s a handful in itself. Are we hoping for a boy someday!

LOL joy…My 2nd daughter is a thumb sucker and she is 3 and a half…I worry someday I will ahve to cut her thumb off…:)

And my 3rd daughter who is 2 and a half doesnt do a binky or a thumb..she just goes to sleep…but she has the attitude of a 13 year old…

I can never win…

wow! I’d say she was binky addicted lol! truthfully I’d much rather my child take a pacifier then a thumb but I still hope that I won’t have troubles removing it. I hope my child only needs it for the first few months. My nephew took it for only a few months and then was done with it. I think he actually was tired of it always being shoved in his mouth that by the time he was 7 months he got pissed if you tried to give it to him!

I forgot to add that Aly gave hers to Santa….who promply put them in a bag and then his assisted threw them away…LOL…of course she never saw it. Aly was like scary addicted. If it fell out in the middl eof the night she would wake up SCREAMING…..even at almost 4 years of age…

my son was 3 mos shy of his 3rd birthday when he gave it up for good. for the last year he had it, it was only at bedtime. it was the 4th of july, and he was so beat from staying up until the end of the show that he fell asleep without his binky. the next night i told him that if he can do it one night, he can do again. that worked, and he only asked for it a few times but i never gave in.

It’s funny she’s seen carrying Maddox this time when you never see her carrying Z (Brad always is). I think maddox looks sleepy and that may be a reason. I am not judging anyone and their parenting skills. Like someone said to each his own.

Personally I know what a struggle it is with the whole binky thing. But one things for sure….out of sight – out of mind. If the baby doesn’t see it usually she doesn’t whine for it but as soon as she catches a glimpse of it she immediately whines for it. I know that its going to be a struggle to get her to give it up esp. at nap and bedtime but I’m not concerned (I’m also not her mother so that’s up to her not me) but if I were a mom I’d make sure that my child realized that the bink is only for night night and maybe that will even help them to go to bed easier. Do what supernanny did (love that show) tell your children the binky fairy is coming for the binky’s to give to the babies and make it a fun game. We told my cousin at 3 that the trashmen were coming to take them for the babies and he thought that was cool (since he loved trash trucks) – he never asked for it ever again! So sometimes I do think it’s just one of those battles that parents don’t want to fight about but in the long run it’s probably for the better.

Personally I can’t stand seeing “older” kids running around with a pacifier in their mouth. My daughter, who is 18-1/2 months old, has one and always has, but she only gets it when she is going to sleep or is sleeping, and she is not allowed to have it at any other times. She never runs around with it. She doesn’t even mind. If she sees it she will take it and put it in her mouth, but I take it away from her, and she is okay with that.

As for always carrying Maddox, if I were trying to fight off the papparazzi, I would probably be inclined to carry him too, not only to better protect him and keep an eye on him, but anyone who has kids knows they do not always walk very fast or where you want them to. Sometimes it is just faster and easier to carry them.

Umm…on the Angelina carrying Maddox thing…we only see her carrying him because she is being photographed like that. If I had tons of papparazzi around me and my children, I’d sure as heck be carrying them to. We don’t know what she does when they are not around, do we? Just a thought.

….”It seems to be a lazy way to shut a whining child up. If they are tired, then take them home and put them down for a nap.”….

Um, well all I have to say is that is a HUGE generalzation as my kids since the day they were born took 2-3 hour naps every day and are in bed by 7pm. When my older one had a binky it wasn’t about being tired. It was about the habit and the oral fixation. I never used it to shut up a whining child..and to call a parent lazy is just rude. Not many parents who have 3 under 3 years old are “lazy”.

Call me an absolute horrible mother…my oldest daughter was 2 months shy of 4 before she gave up her binky….now mostly it was at night but there were times she would find one and stick it in her mouth in public…but you know what…no one knew what we were doing to try to get her to give it up…just like we dont knows what they are doing. It’s not any of my business and the sun will still set if the kid has a binky.(Oh, and I missed the pics of anyone “shoving it” in their mouths..:)

Oh and another note to add to the ‘I’m a horrible mother” catagory….I carried my children while I was very pregnant with their siblings. I especially identify with Mira because my 1st 2 were 18 months apart and then I had a 3rd 14 months after that.
You really can’t tell a child “Sorry , I can’t hold you because I’m pregnant.” They don’t understand and to me it felt like I was not fulfilling my job as a mom to hold and comfort them or play with them.

Anyway, its like a catch 22 sometimes…someone will always have something to say about the way someone else parents.

Just my 2 cents, which I hardly ever leave at the table..:)