Yes, Blossom Is Still Breastfeeding Her 3-Year-Old
Mayim Bialik (correction: that's Dr. Blossom to us) has said a million times before that she and her husband aren't conventional, in society's terms, when it comes to raising their two sons, 6-year-old Miles and 3.5-year-old Fred. And now Dr. Blossom has put all her holistic parenting tips in a new book called The Sling: A Real-Life Guide To Raising Confident, Loving Children The Attachment Parenting Way. In The Sling, Dr. Blossom writes about how she doesn't use diapers during potty training time, doesn't force her boys to sleep by themselves and isn't putting a date on when she's going to retire Fred's mouth from her nipple. Basically, Dr. Blossom is QUIRKY!
While promoting the book, Dr. Blossom talked to Newsok.com (via Daily Mail) about the philosophies of the attachment parenting method and how she knows it's not for all families, but it works for hers. Here's a few pieces from Dr. Blossom's interview that I've pre-chewed for you so it goes down easier. CAUTION: EXTREME HIPPINESS AHEAD:
On how they all sleep together as a family and how baby soap is devil smegma:
The progressive parents live in a very small Los Angeles home — their one-bedroom has two mattresses on the floor on which the family co-sleeps.The children don't have a playroom filled with the latest toys — Bialik and Roosevelt have made a conscious decision to keep their material lives simple and minimal. “Our society's obsession with consumerism, especially in the realm of baby things, baby soaps and baby products. ... That's something that my husband and I, partly for frugality and partly for environmental reasons, have really rejected.”
On how letting babies piss in their quilted chonies can confuse them later when we tell them to sink the toilet Cheerios with their piss streams:
In “Beyond the Sling,” Bialik also writes about elimination communication as a form of early potty training that encourages parents to recognize their child's natural signals instead of waiting until the child is older, then introducing the toilet.
“You're basically training your child to use their pants as a bathroom and then two years later we have to turn around and do all sorts of complicated manipulations to get them to unlearn that,” she said.
On how she's letting Fred decide when he's had enough of her leche knob:
They were breast-fed until ready to quit — Bialik still nurses Fred sporadically, as he slowly weans himself.
What I've learned from this is that raising babies is hard, it requires a lot of thinking and it's really, really fucking weird.
Dr. Blossom wrote a piece on her blog last September about how she tried to wean Fred off of her titty, but doing so made her realize that she'll just let him suckle on her nipple until he's done done. The last time I wrote about breastfeeding, La Leche League slapped me with a leaky nipple and squirted a whole lot of TRUTH into my eyes. They were right. I know nothing about breastfeeding. The closest I've come to breastfeeding is the time some trick was sucking on my nipple knob and made a sour puckery look like he just sucked up something gross. It was probably just a little old shower gel that was stuck up in there. I don't know. I also don't know if nursing a child with teeth makes your nipples look like chewed up pieces of pizza sausage (I'm sure there's nipple rejuvenation surgery for that). But I do know that Dr. Blossom seems to care about not raising a couple of douchebags and I can appreciate that.
Although, I will side-eye that bitch if in 20 years she uploads a video of her squirting chichi leche into Fred's mouth after he takes a bite of his wedding cake.
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True story: one of the ob/gyn's in my practice replied to a question I had re: breastfeeding with "What do you think THOSE THINGS are for?"
Anybody who has a gentle eye towards parenting is ok by me. When the teeth started coming in and my babies went into giggling fits at my reaction to the nips being gnarled and gnashed we were done.
... Or the kids could just grab some buds.
"Shalikla!"
Reading that gave me all sorts of heebie jeebies.
Holy sanctimommies, D Listed!! Wow!! When did parenting become a competitive sport? Damn.
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Submitted by saltydog88 on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:52pm.
LOL OMG I totally read that as you knocking up your girlfriend and dumping her at first
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No I didn't knock up my friend! LOL But I do dump them as my friend when they're preggers. Sorry if I sounded bitter. I'm tired of this "the whole world revolves around me attitude" when it comes to parents. I can't tell you how many times I had cover when someone couldn't come in when their kid was sick. What about with I get sick? I have to drag ass into the office.
My mom just rubbed lemon on her nipples. At this point, it's more for the mother than the actual kid. Just have another baby, Blossom.
And M.K, I choked on an M&M when I saw the "woah" tag.
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I think of Blossom as Amy Farrah Fowler now.
If she and her husband are happy and their kids aren't crazy, more power to them. I'd rather deal with Miles & Fred than Nicky & Paris Hilton or any of those godforsaken Kardashians.
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Submitted by BoredSlore on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:53pm.
Question for you all: WHY are we SO INTENT on attacking each others parenting skills? If the parent lets their kids run screaming through WalMart, they don't pay enough attention to their kids. Someone is an attachment parent and they are paying too much attention to their kid.
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Totally agree! I couldn't care less if people don't have kids. I didn't until I was 34 and no-one gave me shit about it! But the animosity toward parents and kids on the D never fails to stun me! All of a sudden, everyone has horror stories about the grocery store and on streets and all the tales about how kids and their parents are ruining the world! And how "thank God I just have pets, thankyouverymuch" posts and the ensuing cosigns!
Before I had kids, my life never had any trauma regarding kids or their parents and it still doesn't. Where are all these angry and resentful child and parent haters living? Gatlin, Nebraska?!
We were all kids once. We need to just live and let live. People with no kids but have pets don't affect my life and I know that my life or kids don't affect them! What's with so much name-calling and mass stereotyping and generalizations?
I think we all need a DRANK!
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My mom was so tired of my nearly 3-year-old sister still breastfeeding (she called it "night-Night")that she put some bitter lemon pet spray on her nipples. When my sister got disgusted with the taste she told her, "That means you're too big to go "Night-night" anymore." She accepted it and moved on no prob.
Breastfeed or not, co sleep or not, have kids or not, it's your thang do what ya wanna do.
Clue to hipsters: this style of parenting has been around since the stone age and Dr. Sears wrote the definitive series of books on it. Do thorough research doctor and give proper credit. Many have gone before you on this journey.
Parenting is a long distance run, not a sprint.
So many things come into making a human being besides the few short years of childhood. Genetics, and peer groups, parental behavioral modeling, life experience.
Dr Sears books saved my ass when I was coping with a 'High need' baby, i.e one that screamed the moment I put her down, for the first year of her life. I only practised a few of the attachment principles but his compassion and sensitivity to your child has stayed with me and keeps you strong against all those who think they know better than me how to raise my kid. His style makes loads of sense and if this approach works for her then good luck to her. The ever increasing incidence of mental illness/attachment issues (read Bowlby and Winnicott all you attachment haters) shows that parenting is getting shit wrong. Try something different. It just might help you.
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Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:00pm.
I completely disagree that she's shoving her beliefs down people's throats. Her book very obviously is geared toward a certain group of parents who believe how she does. Don't agree? Don't fucking read it. My way is no more right for her children than her way is for mine but I'm not "right", either.
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Submitted by Fujicat on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 1:50pm.
Breastfeeding is great, yay yay, wahoo. I'm sick to death of these women who act as if they're something so unique and special and are the center of the universe because they had a child and lactated.
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I'm also sick to death of these people who act as if breastfeeding a child past the one year "mark" is a vile act because they can't/don't want to have a child and lactate. STFU already. You sound like a hypocrite.
I breastfed my children until they are almost 3, and I NEVER judge, give side eye, or even act superior to those who decide to only breastfeed their offspring for 3 months, 6 months, or not at all. We all have our own rights to do what we think is best for us or our children.
Weighing In:
We co-sleep with our 2.5 y/o son. HOWEVER, he has his OWN ROOM and his OWN BED where he naps or goes to sleep in 50% of the time.
We also stopped nursing when he was about 10 months old (due to my illness and the need to return to the meds I had to stop taking when I found I was preggo) AND he was potty trained by the time he was 2 because he had a *time table* of when he eliminated every day. He peed and pooped like clockwork!
Now, we are no hippy dippy family. Mr. Slore is in the US Army; we are a Paleo Diet family (GO GROK) yet we still do some attachment parenting.
Baby Slore (that's GOT to be wrong) is very attuned to the feelings of others, has become the protector of the picked on kids in his class from the bullies and has a sharing mechanism that is dialed up to 11!
Question for you all: WHY are we SO INTENT on attacking each others parenting skills? If the parent lets their kids run screaming through WalMart, they don't pay enough attention to their kids. Someone is an attachment parent and they are paying too much attention to their kid.
OH and PS: I am juuuuust hippy dippy enough to want one of these!!!!! http://squattypotty.com/
Conversation starter nes pas?
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Submitted by Ms. Lizard on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:40pm.
So in sum her parenting consists, of sleeping in one bed, letting her kids shit their pants and breastfeeding an almost 4yr old?
She's the reason why when one of my girlfriends announces she's pregnant, I immediately delete her from my phone and Facebook. I don't what it is about pushing a baby out of a vagina that makes a women so self-righteous and judgmental.
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LOL OMG I totally read that as you knocking up your girlfriend and dumping her at first
Submitted by Ms. Lizard on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:40pm.
She's the reason why when one of my girlfriends announces she's pregnant, I immediately delete her from my phone and Facebook.
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Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:00pm.
I completely disagree that she's shoving her beliefs down people's throats. Her book very obviously is geared toward a certain group of parents who believe how she does. Don't agree? Don't fucking read it. My way is no more right for her children than her way is for mine but I'm not "right", either.
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Well said, and I agree 100%
So in sum her parenting consists, of sleeping in one bed, letting her kids shit their pants and breastfeeding an almost 4yr old?
She's the reason why when one of my girlfriends announces she's pregnant, I immediately delete her from my phone and Facebook. I don't know what it is about pushing a baby out of a vagina that makes a women so self-righteous and judgmental.
You're not that special. Your baby is not that special.
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Submitted by marikins on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:25pm.
La Leche League people are so militant that they frequently belittle women who either cannot or will not breastfeed. Don't listen to them, Michael K, I breastfed my kid and I still think they are nuts. You know nuts!!!
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Very true. Even with a lactation consultant, supportive pediatrician, friends who breastfeed, I was unable due to some health issues. That crowd acted like I was the debil. When I was done with formula, I sometimes received a coupon or a free can and I asked my boss if I could leave it for the other moms (we worked in child care at a gym). You would have thought I was offering poison. I finally saw a mother using the same stuff I had and told her I had some in my car if she wanted. She was thrilled to have it.
Interestingly, I read this story last night WHILE breastfeeding my own 3.5-year-old, in the bed we share! I admit there was a time when I used to think that toddler nursing was some weird, hippy thing – but then I had kids and realized how much we both enjoyed it. Nothing soothes a fussy child like mama’s milk. I can’t bring myself to read the mean comments that have appeared around the internet about this story, so I'll just say that science as well as touchy-feely sentiment is on our side. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be nursed for a minimum of one year (the World Health Organization recommends 2 years), and then as long thereafter as is "mutually desired." Most children self-wean by 3. To go beyond age 4 is very unusual but not harmful. My kid has vowed to stop of his own accord on his 4th birthday. And yes, again, I never thought I would be discussing breastfeeding with my own child, but there you are.
Also, in defense of LLL: La Leche League's aim is to create an environment in which breastfeeding is a viable option for all women - working moms, stay-at-home moms, single, married. My own mom only nursed me for a few months, but those were different times, and I don't resent anyone for it. I have never read any official publication of LLL that tried to make women feel "guilty." Those feelings are self-imposed and, sadly, unhelpful to mom and child alike.
On a side note, even Mrs Patrick Campbell has admitted to loving leche. She's a proud member of La Leche League fo sho.
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La Leche League people are so militant that they frequently belittle women who either cannot or will not breastfeed. Don't listen to them, Michael K, I breastfed my kid and I still think they are nuts. You know nuts!!!
Submitted by Das ist ein Dreck on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 2:14pm.
Sorry for discriminating y'all uggos (and because i do think looks aren't everything) but looking at this picture of her i cannot help thinking some people get children as proof that at some point in their life they actually had sex, cause when they'd just say it you really really wouldn't believe them.
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Sorry for discriminating y'all uggos (and because i do think looks aren't everything) but looking at this picture of her i cannot help thinking some people get children as proof that at some point in their life they actually had sex, cause when they'd just say it you really really wouldn't believe them.
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If I could stick a straw in my own titty like in those fucking orange juice commercials (don't tell me you never tried to shove a straw in an orange and drink), I'd be too busy to type right now.
Submitted by TrashyWilma on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:59am.
I am so sick of the Attached Parenting Brigade.
I get it. You breastfeed in public. You don't work and stay at home. You don't use a stroller. You have a detergent free home. Your baby can read.
I know, because this mentality turns every friend I know that has a baby into a self-righteous, arrogant asshole who goes on Facebook, sits on her throne and tries to beat it in that they are the Ultimate Supreme Mother.
STFU, already. Your kid is going to get a shitty education, be self-absorbed and have their nose parked in front of a computer no matter what you do.
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Oh hell yes. I live in Austin and that crowd here has public nurse-ins on the steps of city hall and call themselves lactivists. My boss carried her 5 year old in a specially designed sling with a head cover so she could nap peacefully. And they act like they never feed their kids McDonalds which is a lie because they spend so much time attached to their kids that they don't cook.
Submitted by Lisbet459 on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:41am.
Submitted by Suckerpunch on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:37am.
I think why breast feeding mothers get so militant is that we have people telling us to stop by three months or asking us to leave resterants when we have to do that.
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The restaurant thing I totally get. I don't want to see it, and it's the right of the restaurant to set these rules.
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Between Blossom breast-feeding her 3 1/2 year old and HSotD Sweet Brown, OKC is getting all the DListed love today!
I am surprised NewsOK aka the Oklahoman aka the worst newspaper ever chose to interview Blossom about her unconventional parenting. The Gaylord family (yes that's right) who own the Oklahoman (and most of the state) are exemplars of Robber Baron republictards: Guns, God, and Greed. They even have their own neighborhood of fellow douchebags called "Gaillardia." Yep, it's pronounced GAY-LARD-IA!
Yes, OKC is a very strange place but not in a good way. The Sweet Browns are way too far in between and the Gaylords too common. So glad I got out!
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Fuck that.
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You better go grab a carton of milk, little muthafucka!
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Fred and Miles? WTF kind of celebrity child names are those?
I completely disagree that she's shoving her beliefs down people's throats. Her book very obviously is geared toward a certain group of parents who believe how she does. Don't agree? Don't fucking read it. My way is no more right for her children than her way is for mine but I'm not "right", either.
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Submitted by TrashyWilma on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:59am.
I am so sick of the Attached Parenting Brigade.
I get it. You breastfeed in public. You don't work and stay at home. You don't use a stroller. You have a detergent free home. Your baby can read.
I know, because this mentality turns every friend I know that has a baby into a self-righteous, arrogant asshole who goes on Facebook, sits on her throne and tries to beat it in that they are the Ultimate Supreme Mother.
STFU, already. Your kid is going to get a shitty education, be self-absorbed and have their nose parked in front of a computer no matter what you do.
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AMEN!! Can I haz a witness! And please pass the pitcher of placenta-tinis!
I'm all for women who want to breastfeed but doing this at the age of 3 years old?! No, if the kid can walk and talk and has teeth and can eat solid foods on his own and can ask for it then it its time to take the titty away.
If he's old enough to remember being breastfed by his mom then that is just going to mess up his head as he gets older. Time to retire it..
"But I do know that Dr. Blossom seems to care about not raising a couple of douchebags and I can appreciate that."--Amen, MK. That's more than can be said for a majority of parents out there...
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Are her kids homeschooled? 'Cause grade school and middle school are going to be a whole lotta fun for those two boys with this info public and their classmates knowing all about it. SMH.
Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:01am.
But I don't believe in this "natural elimination" method of potty training. Because I think diapering children (in whatever form) is actually natural when they are under the age of 1.
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I believe in natural elimination, but it has a time and place, and modern day America isn't it. Both my grandmothers grew up in tiny villages in India and Pakistan. All of their kids were apparently completely "toilet trained by age 9 months". How and why?
First of all, when you have to do all the laundry yourself with no washing machine and handwash runny or sticky shit out of cloth diapers (no diaper services) a dozen times a day, you have a HUGE incentive to figure out when your kid will take a shit. Basically, they figure out that little Johnny goes #2 1 hour after a feeding. So they take little Johnny and sit him on the toilet around that time and catch it. The kid will still wear a cloth diaper just in case (no disposables--did not exist back then). Kids will still pee in the diaper, but then again, it's much easier to wash a wet diaper than a really filthy one.
My mother thought about doing this with us, but with carpeting and all, she didn't want to risk it. In the village houses, you have bare bones floors, easier to wash and clean. I didn't even dare try this with my kids...didn't want to risk losing my security deposit!
Uhm, what an interesting concept, breastfeading a male until he gets tired of it. Jack, I see a world of opportunities for ya.
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Submitted by Heroic Cupcake on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 1:45pm.
Dr Ruth, I have to agree re: evils of cow milk. Both of my cats have been breastfed by myself from their kittenhoods and beyond with no end in sight. I absolutely refuse to clutter our existence with consumerist garbage like cans of Friskies. I just don't want to raise my cats with that "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality, and besides, breast is best. And of course we all co-sleep in a cozy blanket fortress so the cats feel more secure and it's a lot more natural than a bed.
Thank you! Thank you! I volunteer my breast milk for stray cats and dogs as well. It's so cute when you walk into a room and they all run up to you and try to paw at your bewbs. It's so precious. I think human breast milk should be sold and marketed! It's ridic that human breast milk is 'poo poo-ed'. How odd is that?
Sometimes, I even suck my own titty milk when my breasts are especially full and easy to lift to my mouth for a few milky blasts of human milk goodness. YUM!
I really hope she rains a hellfire of CPS investigations down upon herself.
Honestly. I am sick and tired of fucking hipsters shoving their deviant lifestyles down our throats. Yes, breastfeeding a 3 and 1/2 year old is deviant in this society. The family sleeping on two mattresses on a floor is also deviant. I don't see her denying the adults don't roll over and have sex with each other in the same room with the children. If it happened once, by accident, it's child abuse and neglect. Can she promise us it's never happened once? Her strict rules of being "natural" don't apply to her husband and sex? Bitch, please.
The fact that she's all "out there" and flapping her gums all over the media about her weird, twisted parenting "philosophy" doesn't sit right. It's as if she's trying to justify herself a bit TOO much. Something is psychologically wrong with this trick. She can decorate her freakishness all she wants with citations from books and fancy words to try to bowl us over and distract, but she's still twisted! Calling B.S. on this one and a spade a spade here.
Breastfeeding is great, yay yay, wahoo. I'm sick to death of these women who act as if they're something so unique and special and are the center of the universe because they had a child and lactated. Whatthefuckever. Beyond one year, what is the physical benefit to the child? And the attachment thing is B.S. There are many OTHER ways for a mother to make her child feel secure. Most of the women I've seen breastfeed past a year are doing it for THEMSELVES because THEY can't detach. It's like that Duggar freak woman who can't stop reproducing. She's a selfish, mentally unstable crazy bitch, and is addicted to pregnancy, just the way subject of this post is addicted to breastfeeding. Has nothing to do with the child's well-being at all!
SO sick of all the grandstanding and entitlement in this society, especially with these crunchy granola Hollyweird wahoos upchucking (literally..like whatsherface the pig spitting food into her kid's mouth) their bullshit into our faces through the alimentary canal we call "the media."
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We all sleep in our bed because my damn kids keep getting up in the middle of the night and coming in my room. I'm to tired to put them back. I do agree with her about the over commercialization of baby items. You do not need most of the crap out there.
And to all of you guys saying you don't want kids, good for you. Don't let your family and friends pressure you. I wish more people would just admit they don't want kids and live their lives. Most have kids because they think they have to and end up being shitty parents.
Dr Ruth, I have to agree re: evils of cow milk. Both of my cats have been breastfed by myself from their kittenhoods and beyond with no end in sight. I absolutely refuse to clutter our existence with consumerist garbage like cans of Friskies. I just don't want to raise my cats with that "keeping up with the Joneses" mentality, and besides, breast is best. And of course we all co-sleep in a cozy blanket fortress so the cats feel more secure and it's a lot more natural than a bed.
yucko - true enough. No doubt I see my kid through rose-coloed glasses.
But there really isn't much you *CAN* include in this argument, if you are trying to be objective or scientific about it. The whole thing is about people's projections, fears, ideas about sexuality/Oepidal-type complexes, ideas about the RIGHT WAY to raise children (often based of what they did or didn't do, or what they experienced or wish they had experienced).
Look through all of the posts her - hell, just look at any random 10 - and find one that isn't completely subjective, slanted and unworthy of being considered in a reasoned argument? It's all conjecture, and most of it is pissy finger-pointing at other women and their parenting choices. Period.
Parenting is complex. Most of us try to do our best with the tools we have at hand, and the information we believe is the best for our kids and our selves. I wish we could honor that more, instead of tearing each other apart about it all the time.
BTW, I wonder how many Hollywood kids were breastfed / attachment parented? You think White Oprah subscribed to the attachment parenting model? Because her kids certainly turned out the way you all predict for that kind of early childhood experience.
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I'm still breast-feeding my son. He's 19 now. It's very comforting for him to suck on the 'noggy' and I don't mind whipping out the tit for him. His fiancée is going ape-shit about this but I personally feel my son should have breast milk for as long as he wants. As long as he keeps sucking on my breasts, the milk will keep coming. I find nothing wrong with this at all.
People are so squeamish about breast-feeding women and yet cow's milk is okay? Right. Feed your child milk meant for a fucking cow and that's 'a-okay'?
My future daughter-in-law got so up in arms about me whipping my breast out and letting my son drink my breast milk as if it was some horrible taboo.
Grow up. Human milk is far healthier for HUMANS than animal milk meant for ANIMALS.
Shock!
In the end... people are gonna turn out to be who they are meant to be. If your son or daughter is pre destined to be a drug addict, homosexual or a nun then no amount of breast feeding will change that. People act as if parenting is the be all end all of children. No, it also has a lot to do with who they meet in life. Other children. While your child is at school other peoples shitty parenting is rubbing off on them through other children. All you can do is be a good example and hope for the best.
That is disgusting to sleep with kids like that. I hope Blossom is looking forward to a bed full of pubescent boys, because that's what she is parenting towards. If she thinks it's crazy to "reteach" a toddler where to shit, just wait until she tries to "reteach" her boys to sleep on their own. whatever, I'm not a parent, but if I ever do have kids I personally will not be advocating or practicing co-sleeping, LET ALONE gamble with my nips by having a preschooler with a full set of teeth go to town on them. FUCK. NO.
Submitted by Deb on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 1:16pm.
Clearly... anything orange is obviously 100% in Vitamin C.
Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 1:04pm.
You sound like a sane, good, intelligent parent, with common sense. However, IMHO, you are an exception.
Some of us HAVE seen the results of unbalanced, narcissistic mothers prolonging breast feeding and co-sleeping for their own feelings, not so much the child's.
I could not agree with you more about the need for boundries.
It sickens me when I see parents who let their toddlers/young children run roughshod over them, because things go sooooo much easier when you say "OK". I'm still sick about the behavior of my 5 and 7 year old nephews AND their parents on Easter.
I will say, corny as it sounds, I believe from my depths that being a GOOD parent IS the hardest job in the world. I have so much respect for those people.
Maybe that's why my kids are 2 cats.... I am an excellent cat mother, but breast feeding has never been a consideration. Although I admit my oldest loves to bury his face in my armpit and drool. Does that count as wrong, 'cause he's 14?
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
No offense to anyone here (or anyone in particular), but I have a very hard time taking a parent/mom's personal assessment of the success and stability of their own child seriously. I'm not sure it should be included in the argument.
We have surely ALL seen the moms out there who don't seem to have a realistic view of their kids.
WTF is wrong with people being PARENTS these days? Will not tell children no?
Kids need bounderies, schedules and their parents should be PARENTS, not their kids BFF.
FFS!
i wonder what she does with her money then?
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My only concern is the sleeping arrangements. That could be awkward as they grow older. You'd think Blossom would have enough money to spring for a two or three bedroom home!