ABC News- Robyn Paul, her husband and their three children look like the classic American family — until you find out that Tiernan, their kindergartner, is still breast-feeding. Many people are shocked by the idea of nursing a child who is nearly 6 years old, but Paul remains determined to do what she says is best for her child. “In this culture, breasts are viewed as sexual,” Paul said. “We use breasts to sell everything from beer to motorcycles, then a toddler is in mom’s arms nursing for what they’re supposed to be used for and everybody freaks out.” No one is sure how many women in the United States are breast-feeding older children, but Paul said she suspects the number is higher than you might think. Most won’t admit it, she said, because of the stigma.
“There are those women that do nurse that keep it under wraps because they’re afraid of what others are going to say about it,” she said.
I dunno… seems a little creepy to me.
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I agree with the mom, breasts are for feeding babies and even toddlers, but a six year old is no toddler. At any rate, nursing the little guy is really up to the mom. If she (and the boy) want to keep it up ’til he leaves for college that’s their business, not mine.
She is just transferring her issues to the kid. Personally I’m not freaking out, disgusted perhaps but not freaking out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RBOP88gubZI
#3, I haven’t had a belly laugh like that in YEARS.
Thanks!
It’s weird yes. But it is also weird that full grown adults continue to drink milk, from another animal – the cow. What other full grown animal continues to drink milk?
Milk is for infants. We’re all screwed up.
I hope they’re home schooling him because his head is going to be flushed in the toilet every day for the next twelve years.
#6–milk is good for you: http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/Nutritional_benefits_of_milk_a586_f66.html
What other animal can think in abstract terms and pass complex culture on to future generations?
#6 – Steven
>>What other full grown animal continues to
>>drink milk?
What other animal, full-grown or otherwise, eats fried clams? What other animal eats split-pea soup? What other animals eat pancakes? Just because more rudimentary animals can’t prepare all the foods humans do is no reason we shouldn’t eat them.
And most full-grown humans don’t drink milk anyway. They may use it in coffee or cooking, but I can’t even think of the last time I saw a full-grown human pound back a frosty glass of the white stuff.
Why do all the links only hyperlink the http://www part, and not the entire link?
[Just the latest bug in WordPress, we’re working on it – ed.]
Breasts, when dripping with milk and being suckled, are not sexual objects to be censored.
Delight in public motherhood.
I think when your mates start coming around asking for a drink as well it is time to stop.
#11 Weaned early?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with nursing a six year old. Choosing to make a public display of normal behavior on the far end of any bell-curve usually has more to do with an individual craving attention in spite of the fact they don’t deserve it. “Look how long I’ve grown my fingernails !!”
The only thing I find wrong with it is the fact that the kids gonna remember that all his life. May be I’m just a hung up oldtimer. I love tits. I was breast fed till I was 3 yo, and taste tested my wife’s milk the 3 times she was pregnant. Still I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have enjoyed tits half as much if I could remember feeding from mom’s.
While extreme, I believe this is something between the mother and child.
#19 You’ve never been around some the of La Leche League nazis. Most of them are fine but some of the extreme ones view breast feeding, kids sleeping with you, and other “parenting” issues as a political statements. They walk around making other mothers feel like crap because their 6 year olds aren’t sleeping with them and still nursing.
You can also spot their partners (you never, ever use the word husband with them) since their right arms are much larger than their left. It must be from all the bowling they do. 😀
#6- AMEN
Didn’t the Bionic Woman (Lindsay Wagner) breast feed her kid till he was 5 or something?
There are dental reasons why not to breastfeed past a certain age and it sucks to get dental correction to fix that.
In primitive cultures I think they often went till four but this is a full third longer than that.
I have a feeling this kid is or will be a mess.
I seriously upset a parent one time by telling her 5th grade son that there was no easter bunny.
I can think of THOUSANDS of other ways of comforting a child…and none of them involve allowing my school-aged child nurse on my breast! Just another idiot taking something natural to the level of ridiculous!
A bit extreme, even for high-volume “lactivists.” Expect their greatest hits will rate headlines on youboob.com.
Must be hard to dunk the cookies though …
Otherwise, this sounds like an S.E.P. to me.
They just showed this 20/20 on TV tonight.
Not only did they have 8-year-olds suckling at mommy’s teat, but women who have custom-made $2000 rubber dollys that they treat like real children, and women who have orgasms giving birth.
Weird.
#27 – Scottie
What’s an S.E.P.?
My great-grandmother breastfed her son until he was five-ish. Of course, it was because of the Depression, and food was scarce.
My grandmother hated it, but the kid turned out fine.
Who knows what anyone means by the symbolism they offer forth?
In Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, it meant: Someone Else’s Problem
As most problems are.
That’s just wrong to do to a kid. In 10 years he’s going to be found on google because of this. Poor little guy.
sick.
#31 – Bobbo
>> Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe
Oh. Did they broaden its horizons?