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[ttt]

Also...the kid's name is Aram? Oooookay....

[heightsyankee]

www.happyplace.com/15958/if-time-magazines-new-cover-was-honest

[ttt]

LOL!!!

[iammalcolmx]

Hold on, tha fuck is dry nursing? Also if that's not her kid I have TONS of questions. Like who let their kid pose for that damn picture?

[2curlydogs]

May 11, 2012 10:16:28 GMT -5 ttt said:

May 11, 2012 10:08:49 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

Here you go: moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/11/11658637-time-cover-mom-defends-breast-feeding-3-year-old-son?lite

Thank you!

And that kid looks like every single negative stereotype of attachment parenting children rolled into one.

Funny, I thought, for his age, he was pretty well behaved. Not perfect but, eh, not some demon child.

However, Dr. Sears and that Kluger dude made me want to stab the monitor. "If you can't be the perfect attachment parent - if you work outside the home..."

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you fucking pig.

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We're just going to say that's her kid. I need that to be her kid, for my own sanity. NEED!

So uhm, case closed. That's her kid.

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so how does breast feeding a four year old work exactly? Do they have grilled cheese for lunch and then some milk to go with it?

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May 11, 2012 10:50:30 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

May 11, 2012 10:16:28 GMT -5 ttt said:

Thank you!

And that kid looks like every single negative stereotype of attachment parenting children rolled into one.

Funny, I thought, for his age, he was pretty well behaved. Not perfect but, eh, not some demon child.

However, Dr. Sears and that Kluger dude made me want to stab the monitor. "If you can't be the perfect attachment parent - if you work outside the home..."

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you fucking pig.

This. Ugh.

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May 11, 2012 10:54:10 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

so how does breast feeding a four year old work exactly? Do they have grilled cheese for lunch and then some milk to go with it?

Most kids who are breastfed past two are only doing so first thing in the morning and just before bed. Sometimes they let the kid hit up the dairy bar when they are upset or have hurt themselves.

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May 11, 2012 11:02:24 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

May 11, 2012 10:54:10 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

so how does breast feeding a four year old work exactly? Do they have grilled cheese for lunch and then some milk to go with it?

Most kids who are breastfed past two are only doing so first thing in the morning and just before bed. Sometimes they let the kid hit up the dairy bar when they are upset or have hurt themselves.

Ah ok, thanks.

[ttt]

May 11, 2012 10:50:30 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

May 11, 2012 10:16:28 GMT -5 ttt said:

Thank you!

And that kid looks like every single negative stereotype of attachment parenting children rolled into one.

Funny, I thought, for his age, he was pretty well behaved. Not perfect but, eh, not some demon child.

He wasn't terrible, but he was ALL over his mother, physically and emotionally, constantly interrupting her, constantly needing her attention. Which is understandable, since apparently he's been taught he deserves her attention every single second of the day no matter what.

[2curlydogs]

May 11, 2012 11:13:45 GMT -5 ttt said:

May 11, 2012 10:50:30 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Funny, I thought, for his age, he was pretty well behaved. Not perfect but, eh, not some demon child.

He wasn't terrible, but he was ALL over his mother, physically and emotionally, constantly interrupting her, constantly needing her attention. Which is understandable, since apparently he's been taught he deserves her attention every single second of the day no matter what.

Oh, yeah. That I laughed at. He was quiet and cute when she wasn't talking but the second she opened her mouth to pay attention to someone else: "Mommy!"

But B goes thru phases like that (is, in fact, in the middle of one, which is why I need tree/gardening help), so I withheld judgement about it being a result of parenting style. Since I am clearly an inferior mother who works outside the home and therefore not a perfect AP even from the get-go.

[meshaliuknits]

May 11, 2012 9:14:13 GMT -5 eclaires said:

I call it MacGyver style parenting.

Like!

I can make a diaper out of a sock, pine tree air freshner and duct tape.