It’s my birthday and I am cranky. I am not really mad at anyone. I woke up to a barrage of posts and emails about the cover of TIME Magazine, you know the one. I can’t begin to tell you how uncomfortable this picture makes me.
Breastfeeding is important. It helps mother and child bond. It provides nutrition that supplements can’t. That being said, breastfeeding is for babies; it isn’t for children who have a full set of teeth and are potty trained. This picture is uncomfortable to look at.
Ladies, if you ever wondered what the back story was with the 40 year old virgins still living in their mothers’ basements and playing XBOX at four in the morning you are looking at it. If a kid is old enough to walk around and use the toilet like a big boy he is too old to be breastfeeding.
I think the real question is, “What the fuck is wrong with this child’s mother?” Why would she want to encourage this kind of dependence in her child? This “situation” is emotionally unhealthy. I can only imagine what this child’s peers will be teasing him about when he starts school. By being “Mom Enough” she is opening her son up to be ridiculed. I think CPS should definitely be questioning this woman.
andy1076
/ May 10, 2012I may agree with the benefits of breast feeding for a child etc, but seriously?!
The Wandering Mind
/ May 10, 2012I barely react to Maxim or FHM’s titillating covers, but I did a double take upon seeing this. Had to make sure I read it correctly. Time will get attention whether positive or negative for this one. As for the actual topic that laid in wait under the cover about Jamie Lynne Grumet and her beliefs provided very little to me. But then again, this isn’t about me or you, this is about her need to comfort & coddle her kids. I’ll skip over the breast feeding at the Playboy Mansion stuff that is on her blog.
If you don’t tell a kid to stop, they will most likely keep sucking you dry like its the most natural thing ever until someone or something prompts them to out of embarrassment or some other factor.
If he’s old enough to walk to the fridge & get his own milk, it might just be time to stop breast feeding him.
If your magazine isn’t getting the type of readership that gossip magazines are, write better articles & come up with creative images.
That’s just my thought. Hmm, I wonder whether I’m speaking based on nature or nurture?
Cdn Stormlover
/ May 11, 2012Stephen, you hit the nail on the head…..
“Sucking you dry” – exactly what children will do if they aren’t allowed to spread their wings and become ADULTS. Tsk tsk on parents who coddle beyond the coddling years.
What I Desired To Say
/ May 10, 2012That scene in the trailer for “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is meant to be humorous, but I think it’s too close to reality.
What I Desired To Say
/ May 10, 2012And if she still feels the need to ‘connect’ with someone via this method, I’m sure her husband/Boyfriend/Significant Other would LOVE the chance to do so.
Cakes McCain
/ May 10, 2012WTF???? It’s not only bizarre, it’s just SO NOT necessary. (To my knowledge) Even in the animal kingdom this is not typical.
I am with you sister. (and I live in a country where men are infantile, coddled well into adulthood and/or till mamma is in the grave.) Enough already!
stevesw
/ May 10, 2012One day, I visited a 26 year old single mother; a friend who had lived a few doors up, and was now living in her own apartment with her 2 year old daughter. So we are sitting on my friend’s bed watching a football game, the daughter wearing her own team cap, when my friend says it’s time for the daughter to nurse. ? The daughter starts to nurse. A two year old nursing? I asked what was she drinking, air? There are teeth involved. Apparently my friend felt that her child would nurse until whenever, as it made the daughter fell loved.
snarkysnatch
/ May 10, 2012Happy Birthday Teri!!
kdaze10
/ May 10, 2012Wow…that cover is disgusting….it has the aura of pedophilia around it……wtf. If the kid can ask for it, then the kid is too old….in fact…if the kid has teeth then it’s time for a bottle…
Rob
/ May 11, 2012I’m guessing Time is feeling short of readership? This looks like spoof to generate artificial controversy to me. Apart from anything else, look at the evidence she presents. If she’s been breast-feeding continuously for years her tits should be around her ankles!
WordsFallFromMyEyes
/ May 11, 2012I am so with you on this one. It’s repulsive, actually. What is the ‘mother enough’ meant to mean? I think you’re ‘mother enough’ if you’re ‘strong enough’ to wean your child from you, because as I recall it, he wanted it so badly always, it was a real weaning job. This is just tragic. It makes me sad. This boy is doing what babies are within their nature to do. This is repulsive because it’s unnatural. It’s unnatural because he’s not a baby.
And I do agree, what kind of woman would allow her child that she presumably loves, become dependent on her, not independent. Man, this is so sad.
Noeleen
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theforgottenwife
/ May 11, 2012I agree with you completely. My job, as a parent, is to make self-supporting adults that contribute to society. Not a child that is so dependent upon me that they never leave the next. I truly think that she is doing her child a disservice. The cover is totally uncomfortable.
daterofboys
/ May 11, 20121) Happy Birthday! W00t w00t!
2) This is clearly a mom with separation anxiety…
The Wandering Mind
/ May 11, 2012“Separation Anxiety”, now there’s a term I haven’t heard in a while.
cryominute
/ May 12, 2012Reblogged this on cryominute and commented:
Kids that are breastfed for many years after the average mammary person has stopped supplying are usually healtier and smarter in my opinion. When the child has most of his teeth would be a great time to reconsider the benefits. I think the mother has a deep rooted fear of losing control and the child has a need for the close connection that he or she feels. outweigning the
Lorna's Voice
/ May 13, 2012I think when women encourage this kind of ultimate dependence with their children, they are doing it for themselves, not for their children–making this a selfish act, not a loving one.
And at that age (the boy’s age), I was taking care of my younger sister! Sheesh!
Lisa
/ May 14, 2012That’s sick. I was made very dependent on my mom (my mom didn’t even breast feed me). Mothers die and dependent adults are stuck with finding another nurturer. It’s wrong.
Jeanna
/ May 15, 2012I personally have such insanely sensitive nipples that they can make me orgasm on their own, and it terrified me away from breastfeeding my two daughters. I know breastfeeding is natural, but I just couldn’t do it. I’ve seen 4 and 5 year olds that are still on the breast, and it BEYOND disturbs me…. it makes me damn near sick. This picture… repulsive. Now the funny one that they’ve made with Obama sucking on Clooney’s nipple… now that’s funny. There’s a real story
Patti Kuche
/ May 15, 2012It’s one thing for Mum to want to be on the cover of any magazine but this? Personally I don’t think it has done anything for increased magazine sales – we’re all looking at it online, but that poor boy has to live with his mother’s decision forever on two counts – the first that he was breastfed for so long and second, the whole world gets to know about it. It’s all about her . ..