I agree. If I see an infant breastfeeding I think of it as very natural.

As long as the mother is producing healthy milk, its always better than formula.

I just think at 4 and up is a bit strange.

Yes, I am very pro extended breastfeeding, but the way this cover was done is troubling. I did not like the caption to the picture at all.

I never said once in this thread that it was OK, because I don't think that it's appropriate for me to make judgments about the way that any mother chooses to feed her child.

So, when is a good age, IYO, to stop?

When that kid is sixteen he's going to ask Mom to dress a little sluttier. Maybe wear a black teddy or something...

Just what this country needs, more nipple slurping kindergardeners.

While the kids in the inner cities are starting to explore sex, Dick and Jane's suburbanite non score keeping soccer star is still licking the tit. Anyone care to guess which one will be getting his ass kicked at school?

You don't have to be Dr. Phil to wonder how this is, and will, affect these kids lives.

How many of these tit lickers are going to be enlisting in any branch of the military at the age of 18?

If they're old enough to start preschool, t-ball, and soccer at the age of 3... they're old enough to eat real food.

This gif will never not be funny.

I still get breast-fed. Its nutritious and entertaining.

LMAO I agree

If weaning is done gently, and at the right time this won't be an issue. I very gently weaned our daughter at 19 months without any tears. We had to wean due to my high risk pregnancy, and I told her daily that we would be doing naptime, bedtime, etc differently.

I think now is a good time to copy and paste some comments from people on foxnews

This is child abuse. This boy probably will end up gay because of this since this will make him hate women. Liberal women are the ones that have driven men and boys to become gay because most liberal women are psycho
b i t c h e s that should be locked up in a rubber room.

Four year old Johnny is getting milk from Mommy. When he is 12, and starts to have his first 'nocturnal emissions', Mommy will be getting 'Milk' form Johnny.

This is a simple analogy to the millions who suck on the welfare teat. The little boy in this picture should be the poster child for the Obama campaign.

I think it's the fact that Daffy looks surprised and/or frightened by the thing he's fapping to.

Well, we had a decent conversation going until this.

ROFL You can tell by the look in his eye that if he's licking tit, it's for a whole different reason. ROFL

I'm gonna have to take exception to the sex part of that statement.

that's awesome Thig

Tommy only ate half his dinner.


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Kids wean on their own. Some do it before 2 years, some do it around 4 or 5. The majority do it sometime inbetween. I don't see why society should get a say in when we feed our children certain types of food.

I think this would benefit the child if he could just switch mothers. Instead of nibbling on his momma's tit, nibble on his friends momma's tit.

Huge confidence builder. Win win.

:spock: LMAO

Because society shares the same public establishments as women who breastfeed their 5 yr olds.

Do you advocate a mother breast feeding in the middle of a 1st grade classroom?

LOL

Uh, I don't remember having any parents in my first grade classroom. Have they changed that?

At a certain age you should probably pump it out into cups.

So there are certain social settings where you would not agree it is ok for a woman to breast feed?

I think a woman should be able to breastfeed if the need arises. I don't like the fact that the stock answer is to go into the bathroom and nurse. Eating in a bathroom is not the most appetizing thought.

However, I do also agree with some others here that some discretion is usually all that's needed to keep people from flipping out and getting offended.

Agreed. And most toddlers who nurse are doing so at naptime, bedtime, etc. The general public can mind it's own business when I am nursing my child. Perhaps that time would be well spent telling someone to pull their pants up so their underwear doesn't show.

True. It's not hard to ask to be seated in a quiet corner of a restaurant. Most of the opposition I see is online. I'd wager that most people don't even notice a nursing mother and her child.

They would if you were nursing a 4 yr old.

Which is the main premise of this argument.

All a mother need do IMHO is find as inconspicuous a spot as is available and cover up breast and baby with a baby blanket.

Assuming it's a baby and not a walking talking kid. That shit needs to take place behind closed doors to the extent that it needs to take place at all.

LMAO at some of the thoughts in this thread. I find it funny when everyone gets all up-in-arms about a situation, saying things like: "The pussification of America continues..", then turn around and "feel uncomfortable" when a mother pulls out a tit to breastfeed. It's all a culture thing. We're too 'civilized' to be bothered with the image of a mother feeding her hungry child. Regardless of the child's age, how does that play a factor at all? It's obvious that all kids are different, and all parents are different. If the mother and child are still cool with the process why should it be of any difference to you whether the child is 5 years or 18 months?

Breastfeeding in public doesn't bother me. I may notice a 5 year old breastfeeding in public and make note of how extraordinary it is; but then I'd go on about my life because it's none of my damn business in the first place.

:clap:

Third World Values FTW!

Coming up next, no more toilet paper! If animals don't wipe their asses, why should I?

LMAO

Personally, I blame soccer.

Except that the 5 yr old doesnt know any better.

What if the kid is seven, and in 1st grade?

What if this 1st grader talks about this in school like its something that every 1st grader does?

Little kids like to make fun.

I don't usually cover with a blanket. My ten month old freaks when her head is covered, making us even more obvious.

The magazine cover is not a good representation of toddler or preschool nursing. There does come an age where nursing is mostly done at bedtime or naptime, and that age is different for each child.

I am hardly third world as I sit here with electricity, and running water, and a vehicle in my paved driveway. I am however smart enough to want the best for my children, and that includes feeding them the most nutritionally complete substance available.

When they can walk and talk you still are ok with mothers nursing them?

Absolutely. I nursed my now almost three year old until she was nineteen months old. She started walking at 14 months. I am now nursing my ten month old, and will until she's ready not to (but probably not beyond her third birthday).

The short version of all this is....

If you describe your childs age in years instead of months, it's time to take the tit out of their mouth.

Thanks. Glad to hear your children are hale and hearty; there is a special place for caring mothers.

Well that's a whole different monster. Kids, and people in general, are cruel. They're going to make fun and some kids are going to be outcasts for a whole lot of different reasons. It's just a fact of life. I'm sure everyone in here was verbally bullied at some point in their lives. For that, I see no reason to mold your life to accomodate other people's views and beliefs. As long as you're not harming anyone, then it's really no biggie.

To the people that argue that it'll mess up the kids head and independence: that's pretty laughable as well. I've been on this board a long time and I know a lot of you have kids; I'm amazed that you all can think so shallow. What works for one kid doesn't always work for another. By now, I'd think most of you should have realized that there's no master blueprint on how to raise a perfect child. Until you can find me some reliable research that proves breastfeeding past the age of 3 actually has serious life-threatening/hindering implications, I'm not going to bother worrying about what someone else wants to do with their own child.

Thank you very much. That's one of the first truly nice things anyone has said since this whole Time magazine mess broke.

Good for you. Never have I advocated otherwise. :rolleyes:

This

Most logical post of the thread.

The mortality rate of children breastfed past the age of 2 is 100 percent. Fact.

Now that's funny. And true.

While I do think some mothers tend to attention whore while breastfeeding (like the mother on the cover), I think they are definitely in the vast minority. When our critters were breastfeeding, my wife would always have some milk with her to feed the critters, and if she forgot and the kid was going nuts in public, she'd find a quiet corner and had one of those blanket things to put over the kid and her milk jugs.

While I pretended to masturbate to make her laugh.

Now that's even funnier. I'll have to use that one.

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If she’s going to whip it out in public she’d better have brought enough for everyone.

LMAO

LMAO

You win the thread.

Nope.

The cool thing is, Colorado state law agrees with me.

State law can say whatever it wants to, but if you're still sucking moms tit at an age where you'll remember it when you're 30... thats weird, thats crap.

Completely unnecessary at that age, the've had PLENTY of time before then to acquire all of the beneficial antibodies.

Are you cool with a 1st graders mother coming to school to breastfeed her child?

?

So you think that the antibodies just hang around forever in the baby's body? Nursing once should be plenty then. Maybe there's a reason that kids that have already effectively weaned will want to nurse when they're sick.

A year & a half to two years isnt enough to get the healthy head start that breastfeeding provides? Link, please.

A sick kid wants comforted, whats more comfy than a nice fat titty on moms lap? doesnt mean their body is TELLING them its necessary.

There is no benefit to nursing beyond 2 years? Link, please.

:rolleyes:

**** it. Lets just breastfeed everyone all the time.

Going to get me some milk tonight before bedtime.

Yeah, it's really too bad that there isn't some sort of indicator as to when any individual child is done nursing. You know, like if they stopped nursing when they were done. Since there's not, I guess we'll have to go with your stupid suggestion.

I bet she is doing it to be selfish. Look at her frame. I bet that she is flat chested as all get out when she doesn't have a kid on the tit. He quits sucking and they shrivel up and die.

Facts.

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There IS an indicator.

When the kid is 4 and ASKS TO FEED FROM IT.

There is your ****ing indicator.

So just how old are your breastfeeding children, Hef?

You're taking an unusually obstinant tone about such a strange subject.

7 months and 2 1/2. How old are your kids?

I'm suishy!

I don't know dick about kids, but that is crazy kids nurse until being about 6 years old which is how old that kids gotta be. Just seems odd to me.