«The binky fairy and other lies parents tell kids»

Jean Twenge knew her daughter was too old for a pacifier but liked the comfort it provided — not only for her three-year-old, but also for mom and dad. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego University and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic — Living in the Age of Entitlement, knew it wouldn't be easy to part ways with the pacifier. So she did what many other modern parents have done and enlisted the Binky Fairy to take her child's pacifiers and (wink, wink) give them to babies who need them.

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