Breast feeding a 4 year old? If your kid is big enough to stand and ask you for food, he's big enough to use a fork.
Also, where are the fathers in all of this? I can't imagine there are very many men on board with this, and if they are, they're lying.
Time Magazine Cover Shows Mom Breastfeeding 4-Year-Old Son: Did They Go Too Far?
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If you're interested in these sorts of things, you've probably heard of "attachment parenting," in which mothers breastfeed for longer than the recommended six months to one year, partake in "co-sleeping" with their children and wear the kids in BabyBjorns. Well, Time magazine chose to take a look at the philosophy for their May 21 cover story, which they illustrate by featuring a mother breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son on the cover.
While some are calling the image overly sensational, it does illustrate the parenting method espoused by Dr. Bill Sears. Time takes a look at how Sears came to his philosophy, and interviews moms who believe in his theories, like "cover mom" Jamie Lynne Grumet. Of course, the mom they chose for the cover is 26, blonde, slim and attractive (we're just sayin'...). Do you think the cover goes too far?
However there should Not be a stigma or negative affects for the child for breast feeding, He's 3 years old. NO ONE should even question the parenting, its her child. As his mother she has that right.
I do not find that cutting children off at six months, a year, or a year and a half at most, to be more civilized. I find that they are simply more sensitive to such matters, more squeamishness if you ask me. It's part of an entirely different host of problems that people have developed where everything "natural" is seen as unworthy, disgusting, barbaric, something that should be done away with.
When you really stop and think, and I mean really stop and think. You find that the arguments against breast feeding at older ages having nothing to do with it being bad for a child. Even though many think that the children might suffer physiological problems. Which was actually found to be untrue. A child, if given access to breast milk, eventually they will get off of it themselves. It's only when mothers actually encourage breastfeeding past the child's point of w...
I do not find that cutting children off at six months, a year, or a year and a half at most, to be more civilized. I find that they are simply more sensitive to such matters, more squeamishness if you ask me. It's part of an entirely different host of problems that people have developed where everything "natural" is seen as unworthy, disgusting, barbaric, something that should be done away with.
When you really stop and think, and I mean really stop and think. You find that the arguments against breast feeding at older ages having nothing to do with it being bad for a child. Even though many think that the children might suffer physiological problems. Which was actually found to be untrue. A child, if given access to breast milk, eventually they will get off of it themselves. It's only when mothers actually encourage breastfeeding past the child's point of wanting to get off where problems might occur. Which is between two and seven. Every other reason for being against it consists of: Finding it offensive, disgusting, barbaric, they could/should go somewhere else. It's all rather... uncivilized, if you ask me.
IMO to post a full on facial picture of a 4 year old boy with his mouth at his mothers breast on the front of a magazine for the world to see ... is tantamount to child abuse.. he will most likely be laughed at and made fun of by his peers for years to come ... good grief what some people will do for attention!
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And don't even think of jumping all over me about the benefits of breastfeeding for an infant ... that is natural, beautiful and healthy ... posting pics like this of a 4 yr old boy standing on a chair at the breast of his mother (is she his mother, or an actress?) while peering into a camera for all the world to see ... is not natural, beautiful or healthy for the child!
Forget about the idiocy of "attachment parenting". Yes, it's stupid, but Time does stories on crazy new fads all the time.
No, what is inappropriate here is what they've done to that poor kid. For the rest of his life he's going to be "the kid who was sucking his mom's tit on the cover of Time". At four years old. Jesus Christ, they're not even giving him a chance.