Time Magazine Cover - If you Don't Like it, Don't Look

[Ballistics]

So here's my next question. Is a 4 year old breast feeding beautiful? Inquiring minds would like to know.

You go first.

I'll give you 2 guesses. Your odds are good.

 

[MTVision]

That kid on the cover will probably have to ask to stop being breast fed using perfect diction before his super-dedicated, obsessive, attachment parenting mom lets him stop. lol... Breast feeding 4 year olds...that's the mark of an impoverished mother who can barely afford/manage to feed her child...there's no place in the developed world that I know of where a FOUR year-old being breast fed is considered normal or even "normative".

Attachment parenting is an interesting subject that I am quite familiar with. The subject starts (and sustains!!!) a heck of a lot of arguments between women, between husbands and wives, and between older generations (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) and the younger generation. But attachment parenting isn't merely about breast feeding--that's kind of a Time magazine shorthand, and obviously, is also designed to drive single-copy newsstand sales. There's nothing quite like whoring out the cover using a titillating photo to get people to buy a copy of Time...

Actually in Spain and the US many women breastfeed their children until 4. The minimum recommended age in most countries is 2. The US it's only 1. That's the minimum recommended age though.

And it doesn't have anything to do with not being able to afford food. A toddler could not survive on breast milk alone.

 

[MTVision]

So here's my next question. Is a 4 year old breast feeding beautiful? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Beauty is subjective.

http://www.stacieturnerphotography.com/gallery/this-is-my-body/

 

[Ballistics]

So here's my next question. Is a 4 year old breast feeding beautiful? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Beauty is subjective.

This is My Body| Connecticut Children's Photographer | Stacie Turner Photography | | Connecticut Children's Photographer | Stacie Turner Photography

Well more specifically, is it beautiful to those who find a new born breast feeding beautiful.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Beautiful: The act of or witnessing the act? Two completly different things.

 

[Dominantly]

But wouldn't they at least be a bit more substantial?

No. In the beginning - a new mom will have larger breasts then normal but it goes away once the child gets a little older. Supply is based on demand/suckling. A 4 year old probably drinks more at one time then a baby but the baby will nurse a lot more then a 4 year old - hopefully.

So yeah boobs are big in the beginning but it goes ago. Boobs are huge right after pregnancy regardless of breastfeeding though

Do you have before and after photos?
If not, I recommend using the bokeh pano method to do so.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Boobs get bigger as we age too. Men included.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Is this a real cover or a fake?

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Quite real, and quite the stir tonight in the US all over the news.

 

[Dominantly]

New discussion point.


Do you think the kid in this, would fare well in a school setting, if his peers were to find out about this? I mean I remember kids catching crap in kindergarden for verious cootie afflictions, I can only imagine what it would have been like for a kid with this little treasure.

If it is possible that the kid would suffer socially, then is it selfish on the mothers part to be so head strong about this feeding?

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Wow, ok, I guess I've been a bit busy here with the presidential election...

I'd love to send it to my favorite feminist to see what she has to say about it. My first personal thought is that this is nothing more than a controversial cover to sell a few more copies of the mag...

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Wow, ok, I guess I've been a bit busy here with the presidential election...

I'd love to send it to my favorite feminist to see what she has to say about it. My first personal thought is that this is nothing more than a controversial cover to sell a few more copies of the mag...

Well it does indeed happen, and perhaps more in the closet than with the infant on the check out line from last weeks episode. Its a funny thing because I particpated in a chat not long ago about a mom who had a child who was about 2 and with teeth and she nursed her child in a main dining room on a cruise ship when all sorts of food was readily available and people went berzerk when they saw it occuring in that venue.

That Time Magazine is capitalizing on this is timely for TPF (unless that OP from last week is a plant...jkjkjkjkjk lolololol disclaimer)

But we sure covered it a good bit last week, so we have/are the cutting edge and are probably more desensitized after conversing about nursing then the general John Q Public is today after this cover.:thumbup:

 

[Derrel]

"....in Spain and the US many women breastfeed their children until 4..."

Yeahhhhh, riiiight. Sure they do. Uh-huh.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

And Norway gets 36 weeks of paid maternty leave and the US gets 4.

 

[c.cloudwalker]

And Norway gets 36 weeks of paid maternty leave and the US gets 4.

Yeah, well, the US is not tops when it comes to social programs...

France has paternity leave!