It's really hard and dodgy to try and like, assign an age where it's "okay" or "not okay" to breastfeed a child. If there's a line, it is super super super blurry, especially given the rapid rate of development at those young ages. I think it's at best one of those "know it when you see it" things, but I think people tend to way over-generalize that.
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The "moving on to solid foods" thing, though..... isn't it recommended kids drink milk, still?
I should keep a dream journal by my bed. Aided by my medication, I keep having the most vivid, fascinating dreams.
I don't remember much about last night's now, but my brother and I were returning from a gala, and I had borrowed a suit from him, so we were debating whether I should just have the suit cleaned and returned to him, but he decided we should just destroy it.
"After all," he said, "You did just die in it."
I keep dreaming up these intriguing fictitious worlds that I could write about while I continue to shy away from writing what I SHOULD be writing, which is my memoir and story about struggling through the mental health system for the past decade.
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Every joke quote/reply I've just written out has come off as too creepy to post.
I should keep a dream journal by my bed. Aided by my medication, I keep having the most vivid, fascinating dreams.
I don't remember much about last night's now, but my brother and I were returning from a gala, and I had borrowed a suit from him, so we were debating whether I should just have the suit cleaned and returned to him, but he decided we should just destroy it.
"After all," he said, "You did just die in it."
I keep dreaming up these intriguing fictitious worlds that I could write about while I continue to shy away from writing what I SHOULD be writing, which is my memoir and story about struggling through the mental health system for the past decade.
But anyway hello! And good morning, [chat], I hope you're doing well, and that the spectre of what you should be doing isn't looming too large over you today.
If you destroy a suit in a dream you destroy it in real life
The "moving on to solid foods" thing, though..... isn't it recommended kids drink milk, still?
Is that no longer a thing?
I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Cow's milk is not a replacement for breast milk. Breast milk is for nutrition of a child that can't eat a proper diet yet. Cow's milk is something we eat as a nutritional supplement.
You don't have to drink cows milk at all once you're eating solid food.
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The "moving on to solid foods" thing, though..... isn't it recommended kids drink milk, still?
Is that no longer a thing?
I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Cow's milk is not a replacement for breast milk. Breast milk is for nutrition of a child that can't eat a proper diet yet. Cow's milk is something we eat as a nutritional supplement.
You don't have to drink cows milk at all once you're eating solid food.
Yeah, but it's still recommended for you to drink.
So why would it be weird for a kid to drink human milk instead of cow milk after 2?
there are guys on wall street that will pay $10,000 a night for that
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My opinion on breastfeeding is that I have literally no stake in apply arbitrary standards of when it is and isn't ok to breastfeed, outside of some evidence of actual harm to a child.
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The "moving on to solid foods" thing, though..... isn't it recommended kids drink milk, still?
Is that no longer a thing?
I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Cow's milk is not a replacement for breast milk. Breast milk is for nutrition of a child that can't eat a proper diet yet. Cow's milk is something we eat as a nutritional supplement.
You don't have to drink cows milk at all once you're eating solid food.
Yeah, but it's still recommended for you to drink.
So why would it be weird for a kid to drink human milk instead of cow milk after 2?
Yeah, i know, i'm being a creepo, i'll stop.
I already said dude. cultural norms. it creeps people out because it's not normally done.
shrug
if I had to guess, I'd say there isn't a big deal either way in terms of health/psychological factors. but most parents want to be done sooner rather than later cuz it's kind of a pain (and also puts a damper on sexytimes cuz the breasts are always swollen/tender and shit like blocked ducts is painful)
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I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
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I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
I feel like breastfeeding babbies isn't really stigmatized all that much anymore in the US. if anything, I feel like you are more likely to be judged for not doing it these days. but idk, just my gut feeling on the matter based on personal experience.
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I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
Ding ding.
It's caus boobs.
If it didn't involve boobs it wouldn't be a big deal.
I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
I thought it had something to do with society's fear of arrested development. Time to move on, baby, time to grow up.
When I see someone breastfeeding in public under a blanket I always get anxious whether or not I stared too much. Oh god I'm just processing the situation did I look away quickly enough?
I love how american cultural norms on breastfeeding are currently:
You're a monster if you don't breastfeed your children.
You're a gross if you breastfeed in public.
thanks america!
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
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I'm not gonna argue about there being puritanical distaste there but at the same time... Moms who breastfeed kids that can talk usually hate vaccines and think crystals are magic. Just sayin!
I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
It's not "wrong".
But it's like leaving a kid in diapers to 5. You can teach them how to live in society, so why not?
I remember reading about some stats on the developmental benefits of breastfeeding up to certain ages. Think there was some kind of diminishing returns at five or six months.
Like Hobbes, Montesquieu turned to fear as a foundation for politics. Montesquieu was never explicit about this; Hobbesian candor was not his style. But in the same way that the fear of the state of nature was supposed to authorize Leviathan, the fear of despotism was meant to authorize Montesquieu’s liberal state.
Just as Hobbes depicted fear in the state of nature as a crippling emotion, Montesquieu depicted despotic terror as an all-consuming passion, reducing the individual to the raw apprehension of physical destruction. In both cases, the fear of a more radical, more debilitating form of fear was meant to inspire the individual to submit to a more civilized, protective state.
Why would a liberal opposed to the Hobbesian vision of absolute power resort to such a Hobbesian style of argument? Because Montesquieu, like Hobbes, lacked a positive conception of human ends, true for all people, to ground his political vision.
Montesquieu’s liberalism was not the egalitarian liberalism of the century to come, nor was it the conscience-stricken protoliberalism of the century it had left behind. Unlike Locke, whose argument for toleration was powered by a vision of religious truth, and unlike later figures such as Rousseau or Mill, whose arguments for freedom were driven by secular visions of human flourishing, Montesquieu pursued no beckoning light. He wrote in that limbo period separating two ages of revolution, when weariness with dogma and wariness of absolutism made positive commitments difficult to come by and even more difficult to sustain. His was a skeptical liberalism: ironic, worldly, elegant—and desperately in need of justification.
Despotic terror supplied that justification, lending his vision of limited government moral immediacy, pumping blood into what might otherwise have seemed a bloodless politics. Montesquieu did not know—and did not care to enquire—whether we were free and equal, but he did know that terror was awful and had to be resisted. Thus was liberalism born in opposition to terror—and at the same time yoked to its menacing shadow.
But hitching liberalism to terror came at a price: It obscured the realities of political fear.
Montesquieu painted an almost cartoonish picture of terror, complete with a brutish despot straight out of central casting, and brutalized subjects, so crazed by terror they couldn’t think of or for themselves. So did he overlook the possibility that the very contrivances he recommended as antidotes to terror—toleration, mediating institutions, and social pluralism—could be mobilized on its behalf….
The polemical impulse behind his account was clear: If Montesquieu could show that despotic terror destroyed everything men held dear, and if he could show that terror possessed none of the attributes of a liberal polity, terror could serve as the negative foundation of liberal government. The more malignant the regime, the more promising its liberal alternative. Built into Montesquieu’s argument, then, was a necessary exaggeration of the evil against which it was arrayed.
I posit that it is actually not at all weird to breastfeed children up to much older ages than people think, except for our culture's stigmatization of breastfeeding in general as something vaguely inappropriate.
It's not "wrong".
But it's like leaving a kid in diapers to 5. You can teach them how to live in society, so why not?
our 5 year old still wears diapers to bed
washing sheets just too much of a pain right now
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Red and green striped? Yes.
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I'm not sure what you're asking here.
Cow's milk is not a replacement for breast milk. Breast milk is for nutrition of a child that can't eat a proper diet yet. Cow's milk is something we eat as a nutritional supplement.
You don't have to drink cows milk at all once you're eating solid food.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
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"OH MY GOD WHY"
Yeah, but it's still recommended for you to drink.
So why would it be weird for a kid to drink human milk instead of cow milk after 2?
Yeah, i know, i'm being a creepo, i'll stop.
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He's into it!
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Stockholm syndrome.
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I'm reading about the campaign trail in the 1970s again, like a respectable person.
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I already said dude. cultural norms. it creeps people out because it's not normally done.
shrug
if I had to guess, I'd say there isn't a big deal either way in terms of health/psychological factors. but most parents want to be done sooner rather than later cuz it's kind of a pain (and also puts a damper on sexytimes cuz the breasts are always swollen/tender and shit like blocked ducts is painful)
look deep into those eyes
every image is a silent cry for help
I feel like breastfeeding babbies isn't really stigmatized all that much anymore in the US. if anything, I feel like you are more likely to be judged for not doing it these days. but idk, just my gut feeling on the matter based on personal experience.
Ding ding.
It's caus boobs.
If it didn't involve boobs it wouldn't be a big deal.
I thought it had something to do with society's fear of arrested development. Time to move on, baby, time to grow up.
There's nothing actually special about milk, so kids might as well have whatever instead of milk. But then again, might as well drink milk.
relatable
thanks america!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It's not "wrong".
But it's like leaving a kid in diapers to 5. You can teach them how to live in society, so why not?
Don't think that beasties haven't retaliated before:
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I'm sure this is a Japanese game show
This cultural norm was brought to you by America
America: you get it coming and going.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
our 5 year old still wears diapers to bed
washing sheets just too much of a pain right now