I doubt I will, because I have seen the wonders a rigorously regular schedule will work on a child, and the harm a free-for-all, let-him-eat-whenever-and-do-what-he-wants-whenever non-schedule wreaks.
I prefer the former, becaus I prefer well-bred children to screaming wild brats.
I would note that my two friends who breast-fed in public were the two friends who fed the kid on demand, not on schedule. They are also the two friends whose children I cannot bear to be around, because they'd make Democratic Underground look sane by comparison.
"I doubt I will, because I have seen the wonders a rigorously regular schedule will work on a child, and the harm a free-for-all, let-him-eat-whenever-and-do-what-he-wants-whenever non-schedule wreaks.
I prefer the former, becaus I prefer well-bred children to screaming wild brats.
I would note that my two friends who breast-fed in public were the two friends who fed the kid on demand, not on schedule. They are also the two friends whose children I cannot bear to be around, because they'd make Democratic Underground look sane by comparison."
Nice. Anecdotal evidence to support an argument that public breastfeeding is somehow 1) only done because the moms who do it don't have their child on a feeding schedule, 2) bad parenting, and 3) leads to out of control kids. I am almost speechless at the absolute stupidity, arrogance, and total ignorance of this argument.
I prefer the former, becaus I prefer well-bred children to screaming wild brats.
Whatever. When my now 13-month-old son was born, a lot of know-it-alls commented on how you shouldn't pick him up all the time when he cried or he would turn into a brat. I looked up the research on this and found out that these people were wrong. At least up to six months, babies that are picked up and otherwise have their needs quickly attended to when they cry develop a sense of security, cry much less later on, and end up being more well-adjusted children and adults.
We always responded to the baby when he cried and he was always fed on demand. It worked. He now cries much less than other children and people comment on how well-behaved he is.