How old was the oldest person (a rough estimate) that you have seen slurping on a baby bottle or pacifier?

Question

How old was the kid? How did they react to society in general? Did they appear to have some sort of behavior issue? (I am NOT saying that kids with behavior problems have to slurp on bottles or vice versa).

Thanks in advance. This is for some research for a summer child psychology project I'm doing.

Answer 1

a 10 year old boy with no behavior issues!!!

Answer 2

probably 30?....There is a girl I pass often while driving to work and she is usually sucking on a pacifier while driving.

Answer 3

15, but thats because its a thing in my school, but maybe 4 in real life.

Answer 4

pacifier 5 year old girl, she acted fine i just think it is a security blanket for them

Answer 5

6 yrs old

Answer 6

pacifier 6yr old

bottle 4 yr old

Answer 7

i think probabaly 6 or 7

i dont know if it wadnt something wrong with the kid... i think there is DEFINATELY something wrong with the parent fo letting it go on that long.

Answer 8

I saw an 8 year old little girl sucking on a paci, her muma said it keeps her quiet! How CrAzY!

X Good Luck and God Bless X

Answer 9

i've seen a five year old in a diaper and on a bottle still

nothing wrong with the kid mom was just lazy

Answer 10

In the news here (in England, United Kingdom) a few years ago it was reported about how some women were still breast-feeding their "babies" like even when they were 7 - 10+

they did a TV show on it also...it was a few years back now though

dont know about "dummies"....

Answer 11

Well, there have been controversial pics of Suri Cruise (katie holmes and tom cruise's daughter) drinking a bottle out in public at age 2.  Also, I have seen many kids on shows like Supernanny and Nanny 911 who are way too old for bottles and pacifiers but have them still.  I'm talking at least 4 yrs. old.

Answer 12

A friend of mine gives her 4 year old daughter a pacifier - in public.  I don't think this child has any behavioral problems at all.

http://1sttimeparents-whatdowedonow.blog...

Answer 13

I saw a set of 5 year old twins on "Supernanny" who were still using bottles and diapers. They didn't have any issues..the mom was just trying to keep them as babies. She had issues.

What I don't get is how some people are so quick to judge 3 and 4 year olds who still use a bottle as comfort objects yet find nothing at all wrong with kids of the same age breast-feeding. I only bring it up because over here in the UK a woman was in the papers last week because she still breastfeeds her 3 and 5 year old kids.

Answer 14

I think this must vary by region.  To hear people complain about it on this board, it's apparently common in some places.  It's certainly not common where I live.  I know a really large number of kids among all the friends of my four and my friends' kids, and virtually all of them were weaned from both bottle and pacifier by 18 months.

I have once seen a 3-year-old with a pacifier, but he had developmental delays (also speech delays ... possibly because of the extended pacifier use, but possibly not).  I know of some kids who were still sleeping with a pacifier or having the occasional bottle right around the second birthday, but haven't seen it myself, since they weren't doing it in public (those kids had no noticeable "issues").  I know one child who was still occasionally breastfed at 3.  She acted much younger than she was, and it's hard to tell if that was because she was babied, or if she was babied because she acted so young (or if she was babied and acted young for some totally different reason).

Answer 15

In Europe, I have seen many children between the ages of 0-6 with bottles/pacifiers. It is much more socially accepted there I think than in the states. Here is the US, I guess the oldest I have seen was around 3 or 4. None of them appeared to have any behavioral issues that I could see. At that age, pacifiers and bottles are mainly a comfort item. Please remember too that whatever is good for one family may not be good for another, and there is no purpose in judging anyone regarding this issue. Unfortunately, you are going to get many answers where they tell you something is wrong because its not what THEY agree with. We are all different, and all our children are different.

Answer 16

About  5 years old - and still being pushed around in a stroller too. I stared. I didn't mean to. I couldn't help it. Poor kid. I wonder how many other other people stared at her because she still had a dummy and didn't even walk around on her own. I wonder if the funny looks people gave her and her mother had any adverse effects?...or maybe I was the only one rude enough to stare....

Answer 17

i saw a 6 year old with the bottle just the other day... the mother treated him like he was a baby...... gave him a blanket to lay his head on and also had him sitting in the cart- which in my opinion is a little old for a 6 year old to do.... it was insane to see someone not even have any concern about what that could do to a child..... crazy stuff!

Answer 18

2 years 10 months. Just a pacifier My nephew but he has no behavior problems its just a way of self comfort and its not all the time. He only wants it if someone says something about it. Its like he could get rid of it but his uncle's keep calling him a baby it makes him want it but not want anyone to know

Answer 19

my Sister, she was 5 and still used a bottle. Well... she has tried to kill me many times (throwing me down the stairs, trying to stab me, kicking me in the head, holding a hot iron inches away from my skin and trying to let it drop) I'd say yes, but no shrink has been able to tell.

Answer 20

With a pacifier, probably 7 or 8. It was unreal.

But sucking on her thumb, probably 12 or 13. I can't imagine she wouldn't be embarrassed.

Answer 21

i saw what looked liek a 7 year old sucking on a pacifier. he was a really really big boy. it did not look right, but who knows. he probably thinks its fun.

Oh! i also seen a bunch of ravers in their teens sucking on those too!