Time Magazine goes for shock value cover

[nuthinbutpink]

I think it is silly and gross at this point. No four year old should be nursing still. Can you imagine how he will be made fun of when he is a teen?

Time Magazine's Breastfeeding Cover: Moms React | Parenting - Yahoo! Shine

"While this picture is gawk-tastic, I'm more disturbed by the title of the article. 'Are You Mom Enough?'" Yahoo! reader Chrissy from Conroe, Texas, commented. "I'm sorry...'Mom Enough?' So this woman is deemed more of a 'mom' simply because she chose to breastfeed her child until he was damn near as tall as she is?"

Seriously, at some point, you have to let them go and there is clearly no nutritional value anymore so who really benefits from this kind of extended feeding. I bet she wanted to keep the boobs.

[KnockYourBallsOff]

I think to each their own. However, I agree the title is negative. SOOO not what women need to hear...another reason we're not good enough.

[OnlyPraying]

*my eyes* *my eyes* ewww...yuck!

[Betty Draper]

I believe this cover was meant to force people to confront the problem they have with breastfeeding. Believe me, many people are uncomfortable with seeing a two year old, three year old, or four year old nursed. Why, you have to wonder. It certainly isn't bad for the child. People let their small children watch TV, eat sugar, drink foul-smelling formula, and do numerous other activities that ARE known to be bad for them. I have been to play dates for two year olds where a parent will bring a box of Munchkins for the kids to eat. Nobody bats an eye. But if the same mom nursed her child? She'd get looks. So yeah, this picture is going to get tons of negative responses. Hopefully, though, it will in some way force people to think about WHY it upsets them. My mom has asked me not nurse at a restaurant because people are eating . . . . shouldn't the baby eat, too?!

[jils04]

I think nursing a baby is a wonderful thing if you are able. They need the nutrition breast milk provides until a certain age where teeth start to come and solid food starts to be introduced. By about 18mths, they are eating what I eat.
How is it beneficial to keep nursing way past when they are eating chicken and steak ??
That pik is gross.its offensive as its nothing about the child, more about the psycho mother.

[nuthinbutpink]

It's not a baby. He's not even a toddler. At what age is it inappropriate? 9,10? Teenage years? Babies and toddlers are one thing but when there is no benefit to the child anymore, I believe it is more the mom getting off on having the child still need her like an infant does.

[Hobbermittens]

I am all for breastfeeding, but I had to cut my kids off at about 18 months for various reasons--one wouldn't sleep through the night until weaned, one bit me so many times I had 2 breast infections, etc. But even if they had kept going, I can't imagine going longer than 2 or 2 1/2 years. But that's just me. I do think the cover of the magazine is in poor taste, and rather than show that attachment parenting is a good thing, I think it will just offend people.

[Yuzu]

I don't care if she breastfeeds until he's 27; I have a bigger problem with the adversarial tone of the headline. What do you mean "Am I mom enough?" Uh, gee. I don't know. I guess the fact that I had to bottle feed makes me a genuinely lousy mom. I'll have to live with it, Time Magazine.

They aren't interested in parenting. They're just interested in selling their stupid magazine. Next they'll have a picture of an uncircumcised penis with the headline, "Are you man enough to be uncut?"

By the way, I'm not trying to imply there is something wrong with breastfeeding. Of course there isn't. I just hate the way media tries to pit women against each other, rather than bringing them together.

[Butterfly Spirit]

I saw this on tv tonight , and it's just WRONG!!!!
Not even realistic at all!

Well I mean.. that kid looks 6 or 7 to me.

I know ladies BF 3 and even 4 yr olds.

[Myloves]

By the way, I'm not trying to imply there is something wrong with breastfeeding. Of course there isn't. I just hate the way media tries to pit women against each other, rather than bringing them together.

Amen. Just another way to make mothers feel 'inadequate'.