{"id":278,"date":"2008-06-16T08:32:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/?p=278"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:07:30","slug":"the-pacifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/the-pacifier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pacifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quin is nearly 2 years old, and the pediatrician recommends that we wean him off his pacifier soon.\u00a0 Apparently the dentists say it is harmful for proper tooth alignment or something like that.\u00a0 The doctor even gave me a few strategies for trying to wean him off.\u00a0 I have no trouble believing that the end should come for the pacifier, but Quin has a little soft plush dog\/blanket that he sleeps with.\u00a0 The dog seems to go in combination with his pacifier.\u00a0 He always wants one with the other.\u00a0 One day I even caught him trying to give his pacifier to his doggie, holding it up to his mouth and everything.\u00a0 I thought it was an absolutely adorable moment.\u00a0 Of course I don’t want the boy thinking that everyone has a pacifier or needs one.\u00a0 I don’t want him to be dependent upon it for comforting, soothing, or sleeping.\u00a0 Yet at this age and stage of his life, the pacifier seems to be filling those needs for him to some extent.\"\"<\/p>\n

This notion of dependency has had me wondering. \u00a0 What do I run to when I need comfort, or refuge or soothing?\u00a0 I know in my head that God should be my refuge and comfort.\u00a0 He alone sustains me, and yet my pacifiers are all around me.\u00a0 I run for quiet, food, or sleep.\u00a0 Many times I just wish to be alone not serving anyone else’s needs.\u00a0 Do you have a pacifier that takes the place of God?\u00a0 Do you need to be weaned off? \u00a0 God, please give me the grace to run to you and not to earthly things to pacify myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quin is nearly 2 years old, and the pediatrician recommends that we wean him off his pacifier soon.\u00a0 Apparently the dentists say it is harmful for proper tooth alignment or something like that.\u00a0 The doctor even gave me a few strategies for trying to wean him off.\u00a0 I have no trouble believing that the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}