There are some tot-sized junkies out there, and it takes more than the tough talk of intervention to get them to give up the stuff. We're talking pacifiers. Binkies. Baby's bah-bah. The fuss plug.

No matter what you call it--binky, bubby, baa-baa, nuk, or pacie--eventually there comes a time when your toddler has to give it up. I remember the story my mother always told me about how I gave my ...