Oh man! This boy is one strange guy...I've never been an advocate of the pacifier because it might result in distortion of teeth and lip shape as well as an addiction problem for kids. But since we received many pacifier gifts, when Johno was a newborn we decided to let him try it out anyway. He hated it! If we could even get it past his tightly pursed lips, he would spit it right back out.
And when he started to grow older, his pacifier became just another item in his toy box. He sometimes took it out to chew on the plastic handle, but never has he sucked on it like it was made to be sucked on.
This week, the titties decided they were sick and tired of the boss man's abusive biting, and tendered their resignation. So, when the boss got cranky one afternoon and demanded for the titties to comfort him to sleep, we introduced him to the new chick in town - The Prosthetic Tit.
We are shocked when he took it quite contentedly and proceeded to sucking himself to sleep. This was the moment that we realised the power of peer pressure; In school, most of the other infants in class use pacifiers. And we were told that his girlfriend in class, whom by the way enjoys kissing him, would sometimes even shove her own pacifier into Johno's mouth. So it's either the defeat of principles to normality or the sweet exchange of spit that turned my little man around to accept the lifestyle of the infants.
When other kids his age probably weaned off their pacifier weeks ago, ours just decided to accept his. Should we insist he grows up or should we indulge him in his final month of infancy? Never thought we will be torn making weird decisions like this...
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