Thom Hartmann: Should older children be breastfed?

[thomhartmann]

The cover of last week's TIME Magazine caused quite the stir across the country - and around the world. It featured 26 year-old Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her 3 year-old son. Besides heating up the debate on women breastfeeding in public - the cover and article sparked a new debate over attachment parenting - a style of parenting that promotes closeness. For the last week - websites and messageboards have lit up with comments from parents who either endorse the technique - or find it downright silly. But - if you think that attachment parenting is only about a mother breastfeeding her child past the cultural norm - then everything you know about attachment parenting is wrong!

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[patrice]

1. Not sure, Thom, whether everything I "know about "attachment parenting" is right." If it's about

more than breastfeeding, the real questions, which you & this doctor only glance off of, are about that "more", i.e. WHAT exactly does it comprise in each relationship?

Future generations are not owned by previous generations. They need emotional and physical security AND independence, so **if** possession of their minds is acquired in association with the breastfeeding and the rest of the "attachment", in some cases that could be a conduit for various forms of programming, zenophobia and even unjust prejudices.

Children are not property. They have their own lives to live.