With a new baby, a pacifier can work wonders — quieting tears and inducing calm almost instantaneously. But now that your little one is walking and talking, you may start to wonder whether it's time ...

Christi Koester says that getting her daughter off of the pacifier wasn’t easy. The director of Quality Time Academy, a child-care/preschool center in Joplin, Koester said that she had no shortage of ...