Posted on 05/13/2012 5:26:43 PM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
I caught Jamie Lynne Grumet’s interview on CNN. She’s the 26-year-old Los Angeles mother who thought there nothing shameful about being pictured on the cover of Time magazine with her 3-year-old boy sucking her breast.
“Our family is a little different than the average family,” she laughed.
But it was no laughing matter.
Time’s ungodly cover is kiddie porn dressed up as journalism. It will probably be a best-seller among demonically-influenced sickos out there who get off on the sexualization of children.
Yet Time magazine defends its cover, which it timed to coincide with Mother’s Day – the one Sunday each year when churches are filled not just by the faithful, heeding the Biblical commandment to “honor they mother, but also by those who do not otherwise attend church.
“Part of our job,” said Rick Stengel, Time’s unapologetic editor-in-chief, “is to provoke discussion and provoke thought.” But surely the magazine could have done so without exploiting all-too-willing Grumet and her little boy.
The L.A. mom offered a similar defense on CNN. “We weren’t doing it for publicity,” she insisted. “We were doing it to educate people.”
But of course.
She and her husband thought they would introduce the uninformed to so-called “attachment parenting.” It is the highly-questionable way of bringing up baby advocated by Dr. Bill Sears and wife Mary in their 1992 manual, “The Baby Book.”
It encourages moms like Grumet to breast-feed their offspring for not just the first six months of their lives, as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends, but well into toddlerhood.
It also encourages “co-sleeping,” in which a mom like Grumet shares a bed for any number of years with her child (and her husband, if he’s foolish enough to go along).
Ironically, Grumet herself is living proof that attachment parenting is damaging to children like her nearly four-year-old breast-feeding boy.
She told CNN that her own mom breast-fed her until she was fully six years old. That explains how Time’s cover mom turned out so twisted.
Breast feeding, like sex is not a spectator sport....
I agree, even the mom admitted that was not how she breastfed her child but that the picture was posed to generate controversy.
You are wrong about it being recommended that children be weaned at 6 months. There is nothing wrong with extended breast feeding and it does offer benefits to toddlers.
Yes. At that age the child will be eating quite a lot of other foods but there is nothing wrong with breast feeding at that age. When children self wean it is usually between the ages of 3 and 4.
I just read that article the other day. Thanks for posting it here.
The magazine cover is controversial not because of breast feeding but because of its sexualization of breast feeding. People trying to make extended nursing the bad guy are wrong.
How many children do you have? I have 10, and they self-weaned around the age of one year with two exceptions. One daughter self-weaned at 6 months. She is the most stubborn, independent child to this day. And our youngest self-weaned at 15 months. But what do I know???
When you have breastfed one baby or ten, then you might be able to comment on such. And when you have breastfed a newborn while your uterus is contracting due to the release of pitocin-like hormones, come back and tell me how titillating that feels. Oh, but wait until the engorgement sets in first.
My grandmother nursed my uncle until he was 5. I guarantee she did it to avoid another pregnancy. You are correct that there is a connection between the uterus contracting while breast feeding. My uncle is a very intelligent person, but he is sooo liberal that you would think he was a titty-baby for too many years. But sexual pleasure for Grandma? Lol I don’t think so!
I feel really bad for the little boy, when he grows up, he will have to beg all the sources that have that picture to “get rid of that digusting picture”.
Rather those who are offended are simply are concerned about the need to be modest.
At least Rush had the picture photoshoped with the Statue of Liberty as a reminder of how out of control government is getting.
As I said, the mag chose this image because they knew many would see it as sexual, and thus would create a buzz for the mag.
Worked, didn’t it?
My wife breastfed both our daughters. One till she was about a year old and lost interest. The younger one only till she started getting teeth and made multiple serious attempts to bite off a piece.
She fed them often in public, if a private location wasn’t available. But always discreetly. There is no need to flop everything out for the public to see.
You got it.
“Desrestion is the better valor”.
What TIME did simply last week nailed its own coffin.
The talk has been this woman and her kid for a week. Not Obama's economy.
Mission Accomplished.
Next up, Obama is gay!
When I write average that average is based on broad cultural studies not just on this country and other Western nations. There is nothing unusual or wrong or anything that implies criticism in the fact your children self weaned earlier. It is not a sign of bad mothering or poor attachment bonds or anything else of that nature it only means one thing. Your children were ready to wean and as a good mom you understood this and went with this for the child’s benefit.
All children are different and have their own personalities from the very start. Average is just a benchmark. It is people insisting that it is wrong for a child to breastfeed at all after infancy that I object. Your situation was right for your children and no one else has any cause to write otherwise.
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