Time breastfeeding cover sparks controversy! *EDIT with question*
So, I don't want to make another post, but as I have been reading I began to wonder why there is an actual term, Extended Breast Feeding.... When did this term come in to use? Just curious.
(Time)
This week's Time magazine cover features Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26-year-old woman breastfeeding her three-year-old son. Grumet was one of four mothers photographed by Time for a cover story on "attachment parenting," an approach--outlined by 1992's "The Baby Book" by Dr. Bill Sears--that recommends extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and "baby wearing."
The provocative cover, published online Thursday, was met with the predictable Twitter jaw-drop.
"Love the Time cover," AllThingsD.com's Peter Kafka wrote. "In the cringiest way possible."
"Anybody else slightly slack-jawed over this week's Time cover?" The Atlantic Wire's Adam Clark Estes rhetorically asked.
"Breastfeeding your 3-year-old is one thing," the Daily News' Bill Hammond wrote. "But putting a picture of him doing it on the cover of Time?"
"Heads up, parents!" John Cannon warned. "If you're planning to take your kids grocery shopping, you will have to explain this Time mag cover."
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i dont have a problem with the cover picture - its that 'are you mom enough' wording in the big headline that makes it somewhat initially offensive. as if you are NOT 'mom ENOUGH' if you dont breastfeed your 3 year old or practice attachment parenting.
I AGREE but alot of moms just dont see anything wrong with it
Quoting LoganTroyMom:
thats so weird. i bf, and if im still doing it after a year (or 18mos TOPS) i will be pumping. if they are off a bottle, why would they still be on the boob? put it in a cup. its just for the mom's enjoyment at that point. i have a 3yo and cannot imagine bfing him. that's absurd. in this society it is wrong. if you dont like it move to africa.
Quoting LoganTroyMom:
thats so weird. i bf, and if im still doing it after a year (or 18mos TOPS) i will be pumping. if they are off a bottle, why would they still be on the boob? put it in a cup. its just for the mom's enjoyment at that point. i have a 3yo and cannot imagine bfing him. that's absurd. in this society it is wrong. if you dont like it move to africa.
Quoting Its.me.Sam.:i dont have a problem with the cover picture - its that 'are you mom enough' wording in the big headline that makes it somewhat initially offensive. as if you are NOT 'mom ENOUGH' if you dont breastfeed your 3 year old or practice attachment parenting.
I don't see it as provocative. Some people have really tight undies.
Quoting LoganTroyMom:
thats so weird. i bf, and if im still doing it after a year (or 18mos TOPS) i will be pumping. if they are off a bottle, why would they still be on the boob? put it in a cup. its just for the mom's enjoyment at that point. i have a 3yo and cannot imagine bfing him. that's absurd. in this society it is wrong. if you dont like it move to africa.
And your Africa comment was just stupid.
Quoting LoganTroyMom:
thats so weird. i bf, and if im still doing it after a year (or 18mos TOPS) i will be pumping. if they are off a bottle, why would they still be on the boob? put it in a cup. its just for the mom's enjoyment at that point. i have a 3yo and cannot imagine bfing him. that's absurd. in this society it is wrong. if you dont like it move to africa.
How can I take three children to the store by myself? I have never done this but my husband says he won't go anymore.
- Lunarprancer
on May. 10, 2012 at 12:58 PM