Your comment rings so true to me. It’s hard not to judge but it’s big scary world out there and I don’t think you’re doing your kid any favors by not encouraging a sense of independence. Yes, to each their own, but I see a lot of ppl parenting based on their needs and not what the child actually needs. The parents…

I know what you mean. I’ve had my garden variety body issues as a woman living in America, but after my son was born, I really felt like I didn’t recognize myself. It felt like I no longer had ownership over my own body, and I had just started to feel like I did in the few years before I got pregnant. I went from…

No, if toddlers are raised with a healthy relationship with food they are not going to throw a tantrum. They eat what the family eats, no if’s or ands, no making a peanut butter sandwich instead - if food allergies arise you deal with that. Also helps if you make them part of the food preparation so they understand…

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…

My kids also “weaned themselves” around the 15 month mark, but I admit I didn’t really feel a ton of nostalgia about it. Maybe it’s because neither were particularly serene or quiet nursers, so I never really viewed it as “special mom and baby time” so much as “a thing we are doing together right now while you also…

I know I’m wading into a ball pit filled with mousetraps trying to comment on this while being a man... but I knew a woman who was breastfeeding her 4 year old. I remember him finishing with one side and verbally asking his Mom to switch to the other side. And if she refused or told him he was done, he threw a tantrum.

I think one possible line to draw, which you could maybe point to as being less arbitrary, is stopping before your child is old enough to remember breastfeeding. My earliest memories are from when I was about 3 1/2 years old; some may remember a little before that, so 36 months might be a safe point.

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…

“[T]here is nothing like the bonding between nursing mother and child”

It’s not selfish to want your body back. We give our bodies over as soon as we’re pregnant (and in many cases, long before when we start trying to get pregnant) and we put ourselves second or third for so long. 

As a mom who breastfed my first kiddo (until she started biting HARD at 11 months) and is currently 6 months into breastfeeding my second, I try very VERY hard not to judge these moms. Emphasis on try. However, once you’re into the 3 and 4 year old territory, I kind of wonder if this isn’t an extension of the whole…

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…

I hated being a mom to babies and toddlers. I breastfed each of my kids to a year and a few months, then I was done. When you are pregnant/breastfeeding, your body is not your own anymore, and it made me very annoyed to have put what I wanted to do with my body on hold until the kids were ready to not be so close to…

Cute animals. Always cute animals. Then Harry’s hair loss. Then Meghan’s outfit (on spot). Then the weather. Then constitutional monarchy, but only for a bit because you’re exhausted from the rest.

He was a big fan of early Suits.

“They’re Australian, not Canadian!”

Talk about cute animal or constitutional monarchy... cute animal... constitutional monarchy?  I am so torn right now!

Yay Baby!

Yes, but iirc, that was more to do with the state of her hymen and such. ☹️ Poor thing was put through the wringer for a guy who didn’t really give a crap about her.

Seriously, though, it’s really nice that they managed to stay under the radar juuust long enough to avoid upstaging Eugenie’s wedding, and that on the day itself, Meghan managed to conceal The Bump juuust enough that they could hold off a few more days before addressing it. I mean, I’m sure they wanted to keep it…