Pacifiers are BAD

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Pacifiers are BAD

Your pediatrician must have told you that using a pacifier can – 
1. Make it difficult to breastfeed
2. Cause infections
3. Cause choking
4. Affect the normal development of the teeth and jaw.

But there is a BIGGER PROBLEM with using pacifiers
Using a pacifier can affect your child’s LEARNING in the first few years. This can result in poor performance in school.

Surprised?
Don’t be. 

This is what your baby needs to learn in school 

1. A smart brain that can learn quickly
This is developed when you respond to your baby’s crying and babbling
And is called serve and return.
When you put a pacifier in your baby’s mouth – they can’t serve – so you don’t return.
The lack of serve and return results in poor brain development

2. Good hearing capacity to listen and learn
Pacifiers can cause ear infections. This can cause hearing problems.
Hearing problems can result in poor language development.
Poor language development can be a big problem in learning.

3. Good Hand to eye coordination to write
Hand to eye coordination is developed by mouthing (putting hands and other objects in the mouth)
When a baby has a pacifier in the mouth, they don’t put their hands and other things in their mouth. 
This results in poor hand to eye coordination 

4. Good pronunciation to spell correctly
Pacifiers can alter the shape of the growing mouth and change the way your baby speaks.
When the pronunciation is wrong, the spelling is also likely to be wrong.

5. Emotional regulation to stay calm while learning
When a baby is given a pacifier they become dependent on the pacifier to stay calm. They don’t learn self-regulation.
When they need to stay calm without a pacifier in school they throw tantrums and do not listen.

Are you keeping your baby quiet with a pacifier so that other people will not criticize you?

The same people will criticize you when your child struggles to learn in school.

Type STOP and stop using pacifiers now.
Focus on your child’s future not on what others say.
Share this so that everyone knows why you are right when you don’t use a pacifier.

Start PARENTING WITH NEUROSCIENCE and stop making big parenting mistakes.

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