Connections #324 Tuesday 30 April
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I videoed this for the present Mrs Hughes, so I will have a look at it - which I wasn't going to, but my curiosity is roused now.
Leaving aside the actual programme content - I have a problem with the individuals who feel the need to 'share' their unusual liffestyles with the public at large.
It's the same when couples feel they have to be filmed telling the world they are married, but celibate, and this is a 'lifestyle choice'. Of course it is - so is making sculptures out of your own excrement, but some things are just not entertaining or partciularly informative television.
From the comments here, this programme seems to have been an exercise in self-aggrandisement for the general public to pint and laugh at.
Why?
Just out of interest what is your opinion on the Inuit communities, numerous African countries and areas of India (not to mention many other places throughout the world) where extended breastfeeding up to and beyond the age of 6 is commonplace?
What do you thnk of Anthropologist Kathy Dettwylers conclusion in her book 'Breastfeeding: Bioculture Perspectives' that the natural age of weaning for humans would be somewhere between 2 and half and 7 years?
Just because it might make us feel uncomfortable to watch an older child nursing at the breast doesn't make it wrong.
I found it extremely disturbing, especially the eight year old girl! The thought of the woman's husband also partaking made me cringe. I also think that the group 'Little Angels' are out for publicity rather than actually being informative to breast feeding mothers. The girl leading the group was very young and imho had not enough experience of life to be so sure of herself and her views. The groups 'protest' mass breast feeding was just a publicity stunt.
The fact is also that the woman in Norfolk who was breastfeeding in the park was not taken to task by the policeman. Someone had made a complaint about the woman and he had to investigate. He wisely told her that in the circumstances that a complaint had been made on this occasion, it might be better to feed the babe elsewhere. How the press love to change everything!
Boo, I do agree with you in part that it's not wrong to breastfeed the older children, but it should be a private family thing. The children did seem a bit breast obsessed though. I think exposing that 8 year old to the nation will make the child the butt of cruel jokes by other children. However, she probably never sees any other children - such a strange, strange family. How on earth are those children going to cope with the real world at a later stage?
Totally agree with you yummymummy about the bottles. Children of two can handle a small cup very well. I know plenty of people will say that the bottle is comforting and send their toddlers to bed with a bottle of drink, but, even though I can't stand dummies personally, it would be better for the child to have a dummy than a bottle. And as for bottles containing tea, coke, etc, yuk!!!!
Anyway, I am not a sad biggot. I still think that it is sad that an eight year old is breast fed and the two sisters on the programme were quite obsessed by it, the older child being jealous by her sister still being able to breast feed. It seemed to me that the breast feeding in this family was for the mother's gratification. Children of eight should have a balanced proper diet and don't need breast milk!
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