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Opinion: In my view - Reinserting dummies

Nursery World, 18 October 2007

When someone mentions dummies, what comes to mind? Is it a mother in a supermarket laden with shopping, children in tow and a large dummy in the toddler's mouth? Or is it the middle-of-the-night mother pacing the floor with a screaming newborn?

While researching dummy use in childcare settings, everyone I met had a view, ranging from the slightly saintly, 'I would never use a dummy' attitude, to the 'I used a dummy but ...', always followed by a guilty explanation of why it was acceptable in this instance but that this mother really knows dummies are 'not a good...

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