As a non-parent it is somewhat easy for me to side-eye some things, but your comment about parents giving their kid an anxiety disorder rang true to me. I have an acquaintance whose kid is 12 and when they order food in a restaurant, she orders for him and then smells the food when it arrives and explains to him in…

I am laughing (and loving) that your daughter basically did a “protest wean” when she realized nursing was a tool of Big Bedtime. 

My friend’s mom co-slept with her brother until he was a pre-teen.

Yes but surely you see the difference between that scenario and the one described in the article. My grandmother lived through the depression, dropped out of school for a bit to help her brothers run moonshine to support the family, had amazing adventures as a child doing this work. It was a character building…

...I just very loudly internally screamed.

Tis not shameful to have breastfed, but damned if I want a vivid memory of my mom’s boob in my face.

I know of a mom who breastfed her daughter to sleep until she was 5. I think that’s too damn old, especially because she and the father split and this kid would obviously not be able to fall asleep on her own bed when visiting dad and that made it harder for everyone. So, I feel this kind of late breastfeeding, just…

Forget the college fund, it’s going towards therapy for that oral fixation.

I feel like there is probably also a correlation between moms who breastfeed their 4 year olds and moms who don’t believe in vaccinations. 

I’m horrified to judge another mother’s practice that isn’t like, actively endangering her child. However, I also think it’s easy, as a mother, to blur the lines between things you do “for yourself” and “for your child” and I think this mother’s continuing to nurse a 4-year-old is about HER, not about the child. 

I work in education and am a mom. I had a stay at home mom who very much so made her children her life. It was fucked up that she didn’t have anything else and has caused a lot of issues with my sister and myself as we became adults who **gasp** would want their own lives. I’ve seen what helicopter mothers do to their…

Came here to say that. Sorry, but the second your kid starts grabbing the boobs of women that aren’t mom, it’s gone on too long. If they’re walking and talking, it’s fucking creepy. Period.

To be fair, the WHO tracks nursing in all areas of the world. If you are in an area that is food insecure or who doesn’t regularly have access to proper nutrition, of course you are going to BF as long as you possibly can. In the western world, it is just not necessary for the child.

I BF my twins, (so I have my street…

I think for a lot of outside observers some of these ‘too much mom’ things don’t come across as being too involved in their kid’s lives - and homeschooling is a great example here - it comes across as ‘I literally only trust myself and myself alone to do right by my child. Everyone else will screw them up and hold…

Yeah, I was sharing a house with “friends” and I was watching their children when they were out one night and her 18 month old started trying to go for the boobs.  NOT OKAY and, truly, creepy as fuck.

Really? My girls are sizable and small babies will often start rooting around when I hold them if they are hungry.

I was fired from my first job over breastfeeding.

Part of the struggle of breastfeeding is that you end up completely living for the express purpose of nursing your kid. You have to watch what you eat and drink. You have to drop what you’re doing and spend a half hour or more doing nothing but nursing (maybe reading a book, but it’s hard to read when the kid is being…

I have a friend who breastfed her son until at least 4 years old. To each her own and all, but I really didn’t appreciate her son constantly trying to put his mouth on my breast if I sat next to him or something. Creepy as fuck. I don’t hang out with her anymore in part because of the way she just does not properly…

“He would even unclip my nursing bra for me and say, ‘Thank you, mommy,’ afterward.”