What do you Hate More seeing a 4year old sucking their fingers or sucking on a pacifier?

Question

What do you Hate More seeing a 4year old sucking their fingers or sucking on a pacifier?

Answer 1

It drives me nuts to see a toddler 12 months and up with a binky in their mouth

Answer 2

I don't hate either.

I'm not sure why what other kids are doing would bother anyone. Unless they were robbing a store maybe...

Answer 3

Pacifiers for sure. All a parent needs to do is take it away, and let them deal with being without it for a couple days, and they'll adjust and it's gone. Thumbs are a behavior that's a lot harder to modify.

Answer 4

both is right break that kid of it, take the pacifiers and pitch them, thann they have this solution (not sure name) you put on nail bites fingers.. that wont hurt you but tastes awful..... get some of that

Answer 5

I think a 4 year old sucking his fingers would be a bit silly, but I wouldn't "hate" either. That's the responsibility of the parent. I just know that I would try to wean my children off of either.

Answer 6

Well, both can damage the child's teeth when it comes to them being straight and having an over-bite, but seeing as 4 year old with a pacifier makes me wonder what the parents are thinking let their child, who is soon to be starting school, suck on something so useless to them at their age, not to mention it aggravates me to know the parents are giving it to them to suck on.

Answer 7

Paccies are not for 4 yr olds!

Answer 8

Pacifier.  A thumb is part of their body, something they probably started sucking on their own.  A pacifier is something foreign, that someone else started them sucking on.  The person that gives it to them should remove it.........can't really remove a thumb.

Answer 9

a pacifier....thats too old.

Answer 10

Both !! At 4 years old they should be big  boy/girl

Answer 11

pacifier..def. i hat it when i see kids walking around with binkys hangin out of their mouths and they are talking..it is so annoying..my daughter has been off a binky since she was 3 months old..thats such a terrible habitat to let kids stay on..thats just like seeing 4 or 5 year olds walking around drinking out of bottles.

Answer 12

i'll go for fingers. i really dun like kids putting their hands in their mouth and sucking their fingers. they might start biting their nails too. it's a very bad habit.

Answer 13

Definitely a pacifier

Answer 14

A pacifier.  But i do cringe when  i see kids suck their fingers, I'm a germ nut and thats like nails on a chalk board to me.  

Answer 15

A pacifier should be non existant to a 4 year old

Answer 16

pacifier because that parents can take that away, you can't cut off their finger, so it's out of the parents' hands.

Answer 17

Definitely a pacifier! Because finger sucking it's hard to break the habit; giving your kid a pacifier is contributing to the habit!

You can't control what your kids do with their fingers, but you definitely shouldn't encourage it! (by giving them the tool to do it with!)

Answer 18

The pacifier should be long gone by 4 years old  :)

Answer 19

Pacifiers!  It's just plain laziness on the parents part to let it go that long.

Fingers are annoying too, but at least that stops when they start school because other kids will tease them about it if they don't.  

Pacifiers are easier to get rid of though. You can throw them out. You can't do that with fingers.