Sucks I stunted my son's emotional growth

insertclevername

Now my son will either lack empathy or even worse be a sociopath or something.

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/pacifiers-may-stunt-boys-8217-emotional-development-163700328.html

Ms5586

You and me both.  I think it would do more harm in his empathy department to let him scream for hours on end if I don't give him his bink.

CoffeeBeen

I tried to stunt my son's emotional growth but he wouldn't take a pacifier.  Instead he spent most of his first year screaming and crying in my ear.  Not very empathetic if you ask me.

honkytonk_kid

Lol. It may.

Or you know, it may not. Whatever.

insertclevername

twatley:

I'm with mbenit.

You guys aren't missing much.  The title says it all.  Another ridiculous study.  Correlation does not equal causation, blah, blah, etc.  The end.

Smootchy

Spooko:

I'm sure I've done more to screw up my kid than the paci.

lol, I was going to say this.

A lil emotional damage from a paci is the least of his problems.

CoffeeBeen

NY Mama:

twatley:

I'm with mbenit.

You guys aren't missing much.  The title says it all.  Another ridiculous study.  Correlation does not equal causation, blah, blah, etc.  The end.

I hate that the media always ignores that.  These articles always bury the part where the researcher says they're looking into causation at the very, very bottom.  The media's misrepresentation gives researchers a bad name.

Libby1978

We are all going to screw our kids up one way or another.  I've just accepted that & made life easier on myself.

CoffeeBeen

Libby1978:

We are all going to screw our kids up one way or another.  I've just accepted that & made life easier on myself.

Yeah, I'm trying to screw DS up in the most fun ways possible, at least then he'll have a good time in the process.

insertclevername

Libby1978:

We are all going to screw our kids up one way or another.  I've just accepted that & made life easier on myself.

Whenever my kid poops I tell him he is a naughty child and that it is concentrated evil coming out of his ass.  That is probably worse than the pacifier he used to use.

Libby1978

NY Mama:

Libby1978:

We are all going to screw our kids up one way or another.  I've just accepted that & made life easier on myself.

Whenever my kid poops I tell him he is a naughty child and that it is concentrated evil coming out of his ass.  That is probably worse than the pacifier he used to use.

Yeah, probably worse.

KJmashup

I can't even find enough info on this study to properly critique it. All I can find is a press release. I went to the website of the journal it's supposedly published in, and it's not there. Maybe I'm doing the internets wrong today.

CoffeeBeen

KJmashup:

I can't even find enough info on this study to properly critique it. All I can find is a press release. I went to the website of the journal it's supposedly published in, and it's not there. Maybe I'm doing the internets wrong today.

There's often lag time between press release, physical publication, and internet publication.  The journal isn't amazing, but it's a good school.  This is the researcher:  https://psych.wisc.edu/niedenthal/

insertclevername

KJmashup:

I can't even find enough info on this study to properly critique it. All I can find is a press release. I went to the website of the journal it's supposedly published in, and it's not there. Maybe I'm doing the internets wrong today.

I wasn't posting this as a valid set of studies.  It was just on my Yahoo feed this morning.  I was laughing at how ridiculous it was.  The lead author of the study at one point even says the emotional intelligence is a "girlie thing".  Also the journal it was published in was Tuesday's issue so it might not be available in the archives only to people who have subscribed. 

KJmashup

NY Mama:

KJmashup:

I can't even find enough info on this study to properly critique it. All I can find is a press release. I went to the website of the journal it's supposedly published in, and it's not there. Maybe I'm doing the internets wrong today.

I wasn't posting this as a valid set of studies.  It was just on my Yahoo feed this morning.  I was laughing at how ridiculous it was.  The lead author of the study at one point even says the emotional intelligence is a "girlie thing".  Also the journal it was published in was Tuesday's issue so it might not be available in the archives only to people who have subscribed. 

Gotcha. Yeah, it sounds ridic to me. I was just questioning the validity of the study out of habit because it's what I do at work every day, lol. 

CoffeeBeen

NY Mama:

KJmashup:

I can't even find enough info on this study to properly critique it. All I can find is a press release. I went to the website of the journal it's supposedly published in, and it's not there. Maybe I'm doing the internets wrong today.

I wasn't posting this as a valid set of studies.  It was just on my Yahoo feed this morning.  I was laughing at how ridiculous it was.  The lead author of the study at one point even says the emotional intelligence is a "girlie thing".  Also the journal it was published in was Tuesday's issue so it might not be available in the archives only to people who have subscribed. 

Wow!  Where did she say that?

CoffeeBeen

KJmashup:

Gotcha. Yeah, it sounds ridic to me. I was just questioning the validity of the study out of habit because it's what I do at work every day, lol. 

Oh, cool, what do you do?

insertclevername

?It could be that parents are inadvertently compensating for girls using the pacifier because they want their girls to be emotionally sophisticated,? Niedenthal said. ?That?s a girlie thing.?

This quote is from the below article.  I am sure this is somehow taked out of context though.  As we all know the media loves to do that.

https://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/study-says-pacifiers-stunt-emotional-development-babies

KJmashup

CoffeeBeen:

KJmashup:

Gotcha. Yeah, it sounds ridic to me. I was just questioning the validity of the study out of habit because it's what I do at work every day, lol. 

Oh, cool, what do you do?

I'm a medical writer, so I sift through dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles every day. I get paid to read and critically assess sources of info, essentially. I can't complain about it too much.  

CoffeeBeen

KJmashup:

CoffeeBeen:

KJmashup:

Gotcha. Yeah, it sounds ridic to me. I was just questioning the validity of the study out of habit because it's what I do at work every day, lol. 

Oh, cool, what do you do?

I'm a medical writer, so I sift through dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles every day. I get paid to read and critically assess sources of info, essentially. I can't complain about it too much.  

That sounds like interesting work, it must be fun at times. 

I'm a research analyst, so I apologize for all the shiity work you have to sort through!

KJmashup

CoffeeBeen:

KJmashup:

CoffeeBeen:

KJmashup:

Gotcha. Yeah, it sounds ridic to me. I was just questioning the validity of the study out of habit because it's what I do at work every day, lol. 

Oh, cool, what do you do?

I'm a medical writer, so I sift through dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles every day. I get paid to read and critically assess sources of info, essentially. I can't complain about it too much.  

That sounds like interesting work, it must be fun at times. 

I'm a research analyst, so I apologize for all the shiity work you have to sort through!

Ha, you feel my pain, then! I work closely with research analysts. Solidarity, yo. 

ByeBabyBunting

Awesome. Another thing to worry/feel guilty about. It is amazing that anyone turns out ok.

insertclevername

ByeBabyBunting:

Awesome. Another thing to worry/feel guilty about. It is amazing that anyone turns out ok.

Don't really worry or stress about it.  I posted this because I think it is ridiculous.  I think conveying and demonstrating empathy as a parent has much more influence on your child's future emotional growth than using a pacifier does. 

mom2pottamus

<------just added binky usage to the list of things we will need to discuss in therapy

Lotsofloveandkids

My kids are stunted then.