It's hard to hate baby pictures, especially your own, but Janna Boss-hardt could never stand the ones that showed her as a toddler with a pacifier in her mouth. There she is, 3(1/2) years old, a piece of plastic where the adorable smile should be. So when Bosshardt, now 33, started having her own children, she vowed to avoid the Binkys. "I didn't want to get any of my kids hooked," she says. Her first two, Zach and Brad, did fine without them. Then came Cale, an Olympic-level screamer. "A pacifier was the only thing that would calm him down," says Bosshardt. "It was for his sanity and mine."
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