Time Magazine controversial cover

[geForce]

It's a bit NSFW, but then it's on a cover of a well published magazine, so I guess it should be "safe".
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641 ... 21,00.html

I knew this type of parenting existed, but I didn't know it was that widespread that it gets a front cover story on Time.

[[JT]]

I showed my coworker and she said "my kid still does that". He's 5. LOLLERSKATES

[Duncan]

lol, i hear jt still does it

[nature boy]

they do that in africa until around 5 too. my friend was telling me that his youngest would be playing outside, run in, grab his mom's boob and have a couple sucks, then run back out to play. the image cracked me up lol.

weird thing though is that ryan got off the boob himself. we didn't have to wean him or anything, he was just ready to let go. so sometimes i wonder if parents that breastfeed their kids until later ages actually force them or somehow manipulate them into still wanting it. not sure what's best.

[Duncan]

i wouldn't doubt it to be the case. I've heard some mothers say that they want their kids to breastfeed for as long as they can. Usually some story about nutrition but it's pretty well know that after a year, the boob goes bad lol... i'm pretty sure it's more of an attachment thing

[nature boy]

i heard selma hayek is addicted to breast feeding her daughter. she said it's good for her daughter or something. never heard about the boob going bad before.

[nature boy]

forbes' article relating to the cover:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovi ... -business/

i found it in quickly googling if it's actually bad to breast feed after a year, and all sources that i found said that it's just a myth. i guess it's ok for selma hayek to go nuts then lol.

[geForce]

So the boobs never stop lactating after pregnancy? I thought they would stop lactating after a certain period of time.

I wonder if Joe ever tried his lactating a man's nipple thing with his kid.

[Duncan]

as long as there's still stimulation, the boobs could theoretically lactate forever. That's how back in the day you had "wet nurses". Myth or not, places of poverty do it because it's a cheap source of food and nutrition for the kids. Here, i believe it's more of an attachment thing even if the boob doesn't go bad. Well, i suppose it doesn't go bad, but i read that the nutritional value decreases as time goes on. Not that you don't get any nutritional value out of it after a year, but there comes a point where it's probably just as good if the kid gets a glass of good ol homo milk.

anyways, after a while, i think it's just a hassle. The mother has to feed the kid or else she gets engorged and she'll have to relieve her boobs somehow. But i suppose that's why every once in a while you'll see a mother who isn't shy and just whips out the boob for their kid in public.

oh ya, i just wanted to say in no way am i against boobing your kid past the age of 1... but rather, i'm against making people feel uncomfortable by whipping out the boob in public for your kid w/o covering yourself up. you don't see my whipping my dong out in public to take a leak into a water bottle at the mall.

[nature boy]

[Duncan]

[nature boy]

better in a bottle than all over the floor.

[Duncan]

or you could stick a diaper on your kid who isn't potty trained like the rest of the developed world?

[nature boy]

that's nonsense!