Past the pacifier age

I see this from time to time. Older kids, 5, 6, 7 out and about with a pacifier in their mouth. I saw a little girl today, she was about 6 running just ahead of her mother, I had to look twice to be sure it wasn't candy or a toy, but there it was no doubt, a pici. I saw another girl even older, at least 7, at a parade. She even had a little snap case she pulled out of her little purse to store it in.

Who else here used a pacifier at an older age, and I'm talking preteen, when you were a kid but older than a baby.

Luvs It.

Well i still run down the street with mine and im 39 lol

Was that you? 😄

Luvs It.

Yes it was i told my mommie i didnt want to wear the onsie but she made me do it and go for a walk around the block to show off my diapers!!!! and the only comfort she alowed me was my paci mmmmm suk suk suk i just love it its all mine and noone can take it away from me becuase i have a care bears clip for it lol

Well, just think how good it will be when you get back home all wet and stinky. Then mommy says, ahhh poor baby, come on and let mommy make all better, then instead of the latex nipple you get the real deal!

Luvs It.

I used a blanki and passi till my mom through them out at age six. I couldn't sleep for a week.

My cousin was the same, and did the thumb sucking too.

Luvs It.

I am an 'old' duck and have dozens of pacifiers. They are by my computer, on my night stand, by my recliner in the livingroom, in my truck and clipped to my footed blanket sleepers. Forgot there are a few in the kitchen as well. I love my pacifiers!

That's real nice. i love my pacifires too. i got about 12- or so.it's kind of nice to be able to change for style and color of the pacifire that fits the mood, 😁

I didn't get off the bottle until I was nearly 6 years old. Been off and on pacis for a while. Went maybe 5 years without it... but then oneday... santa brought me a paci (I was 11) I tore it open and popped it in my mouth... I knew it was from my parents though :😃

I saw a lad with his mothr the other day he looked about nine and he was sucking a pacifier

Is there any such thing as a pacifier age? I saw a 10 year old girl with a pacifier in her mouth at the Fourth of July parade. She had it pinned to her t shirt.

Hmmm, maybe there's something about parades and pacifiers? A parade is where I saw a little girl about 7ish, I would say. She had a case she kept it in, which she kept in her little handbag.

And, no. No real age limit on pacifiers, but past about three, it's unusual to see children with them, like diapers. And, some people hate to see there kids use a pacifier at any age, and some have no problem with it.

Maybe there is something to parades and pacifiers. The mom reached into the bag she had with her. She took out a bottle and put some drink into it. I figured it was for the small child next to the girl in the pacifier. I was wrong. The mom handed the bottle to the girl with a pacifier. After the parade. I was walking back to the car. I saw the girl laying in the backseat. I couldn't see what was going on, but I had a pretty good idea.

Well, maybe there were some developmental delay involved there, I don't know?

The girl I saw, showed on sign of that in any way. She seemed normal in every other way to me, I mean she total had control over when she wanted to use it, and when she didn't, and made sure to pack it away nicely.

I don't know if the girl was either. She didn't seem to be developmentally delayed. She seemed like a normal girl to me.

The Rave crowd has always been know to use pacifiers, to help with grind teeth. So it's not unusual to see girls 15-18.

A lot of girls at my high school used to use them. Then they added a rule to the dress code banning them. The next year they repealed the rule but no one liked using them anymore. It saddens me :'(. They were so cute 😁

Nah, when i was about four my parents forced it out of me >😢

I was not happy...fortunately, now i own my own! 😁

I'm often forced to pop a paci. :'(

I did for a while paci that is i like it but not as much as diapers on me lol

I sucked my thumb until I was 10 and my dentist convinced my mom that that was why my teeth were messed up, so the put this metal thing in my mouth to try to make me stop...later on when i went to get braces the orthodontist said that thumb sucking would not have caused how my teeth were and that thing they put in my mouth just made it worse! Although I now longer suck my thumb a sleep with a paci sometimes even if i dont use it i hold it in my hand all night...cant sleep without...like my stuffed penguin my grandma gave to help when the evil dentist tortured me for 2yrs...she was always now my side..said I should be able to ruin my teeth if I wanted to!

I used one when I was put back into diapers up until age 13. There is a boy in the neighbor where I used to live that was still using one when he was 9 years old. He wasn't shy about it either to the neighbors.

@ Babijohnie: and you keep reviving year(s) old threads, why? it's not really good to do that without saying why your reviving it. it makes some people angry when people do that. just saying.

A lot of teens do - dont know if it only for fun?

Hey pacifiers are also a cute accessory just saying.

Pacifier are the best stress release you can have. i keep on with me at all time something about it takes the edge off. i can sleep without one. i have been told i suck on in my sleep i wouldn't know that just for the most part it in my mouth in the morning.

I still do to this day,mostly only while sleeping,since 9 years old!!

I had a dummy until I was 7, only had it at bedtime tho, I then sucked my thumb, I still suck my thumb now. I wish it was ok to have my dummy back all the time now.

Daddy? Can I please?

Love Abi x

When living in Italy I noted that many boys seemed to be babied to much older ages than American kids. I saw several kids who were certainly at least 7, often older to as much as 10 YO, who had a pacifier in their mouths, and usually a fat butt, obviously wearing heavy diapers too. None of the boys (ALWAYS boys) seemed to be at all self-conscious of their situation, nor did their parents seem to think anything of it. I was secretly jealous of those kids, and remember wishing I'd been kept like that as a child.

One girlfriend and I used to such pacis during our walks home. As I recall, they were her idea, and our breakup had nothing to do with pacifier use. I would have been about 13 or 14 YO at the time.