When the child can eat solid food, and after the good stuff in breast milk (whats the name of it again?) is tapped out.

I didn't say you should stop breast feeding them the moment teeth show up, I said we have a built-in mechanism to let you know it's time to give up the tit juice :upsidedow

Once you're two years old usually you have your first set of teeth. I would say that's a pretty good indication it's time to give it up.

I completely agree that breast feeding is the best thing to do with babies and I agree that it's a vital bonding experience. But allow me to give you another important bonding experience: potty training.

Changing diapers and wiping your kids' ass when they're little is an important bonding experience, yet nobody talks about that. Why? Because it's not as controversial as breast feeding, after all breasts are involved.

Would you suggest you keep wiping your kids' ass after they're three years old? After all, it's an exercise in trust. It's an intimate experience.

wonder why, a little attention whore ? Some people in this thread are mistaking feeding a baby and a 3 year old, who should be at the table, eating with the rest of the family:2 cents:

Yeah, the picture itself is just messed up.

I wonder if she will chew the food for the kid and feed him from her mouth a la reese witherspoon next?

Awesome magazine cover! Covers are supposed to sell magazines and that's what this one will do, plus it's probably destined to become iconic in the annals of publishing history. I say kudos to Time for being bold.

Even more kudos to the crazy milf who clearly doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks of her parenting tactics.

Think he will be an ass man when he grows up?

Whoever decided to run it on the cover did a great job. I don't remember the last time I talked about Time Magazine with anybody.

LOL the cover should have read: "Grown Up Enough" (For Breast Feeding!)
This... is a clear example of how far a magazine can go to sell issues!
The surprise effect is not longer applicable to provoke a wow! effect, its just another example of mediocrity and lack of creativity
Im gonna cancel my subscription to Newsweek, er, Life, er, Time

50 spoiled brats :2 cents:

fiddy cheerins

Lucky kid.

Unless she's plastered on the cover of Time with her grown kid sucking her tit.

Then it's everyone's place to judge. By invitation no less.

I'm just jealous of that kid, I wanna suckle her teet too! and then let her suck me obviously

Speaking of breastfeeding there was a woman in a public park breastfeeding her toddler.

A homeless guy, thinking the boy looked a little old to be breastfed and probably old enough to talk, walked up to the rather attractive young mother and said with a friendly smile "S'cuse me ma'am..."

and then, as he pointed at her other breast, said "Your son invited me to dinner"


:D

yeah that's what im sayin! :thumbsup pass the juggz

Do it in.private, attention seeking idiot. The kid will be forever known for this cover.

NEWBIE.............. BUT aside from that , dont you wish you were the one ?? :Graucho

Well, I believe the photo itself can be judged; but the person's decision to breastfeed past what GFY thinks is normal, not so much.

Had my grand daughter over for supper last night, she sat at the table and had salad, steak and baked potato and grilled asparagus, well ok she didnt really care for the asparagus:1orglaugh Guess her age ??............... Yes............ BINGO, she's 3 :thumbsup:thumbsup

you were kidding right?

Weird: yes
Hot: yes

Big fuss about it on the news.

I wonder how many people commenting on this thread have done any research on the history of breastfeeding. Most of the "opinions" being spouted come directly from propaganda fed to the public by baby formula companies (an $8B a year industry).

By the way: 1. breastfeeding your baby OR small child is not in any way a sexual act and 2. breastfeeding fulfills emotional needs in addition to nutritional ones and 3. boobs were not created simply for your sexual enjoyment.

I did a lot of research before my son was born and was pretty horrified by the attacks on breastfeeding that have gone on over the years. It's like a modern day witch hunt. I had family members giving me grief for breastfeeding my 2-month-old! Most children will start to refuse the breast long before the age of 3 but who are you to judge what that family deems proper for them?

Think about the topic with your big head instead of your little one and you might see things differently (although the cover mom is pretty hot, I must admit).

Who at Time reviewed this and said, "Ok, greenlight this." ????

Depending on which part of the country this is released. And how much the mainstream media leaches on to the Time-burnings or whatever will result this time...

Big deal on the age factor.

De-contextualizing the act like that for the photo/s certainly will raise eyebrows and off-putting thoughts in many people's minds; it certainly caused a "wtf" from me as a first-impression.

This is the "about the cover" story:

http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/parenting/#1

:D

Pretty much. Too bad that Time magazine's relevance has greatly diminished over the past 10 years.

their reasons being what? too poor to buy food? i can't think of any others.

This might actually be the most retarded thing I've ever seen posted on this message board.

That said, it's my opinion that if the kid is old enough to hold a conversation with you, they're beyond the need for breastfeeding. I think the moms are the ones with the issues in most of these cases.

I have a 3 year old and I can't imagine her still breastfeeding. I also have an 18 month old and she's been off the boob for 8 months. All three of our kids weened themselves off at 10 months, on their own. And my girlfriend couldn't have been happier.

The OP did ask "what do you think?", so it's no surprise that there are a variety of thoughts. There is no right or wrong answer to an open ended question like that.

I had an 18 yr old employee once who had the weird habit of sucking his thumb. I'm not talking about rarely, and I'm not talking about in private. I mean thumb, all the way in, all the time he wasn't talking or busy, standing right in the store front without a care in the world. Big kid, special order shoes (size 15 or 16 extra wide), burly 6 foot 4 kid, thumb jammed in to the hilt.. It was the fucking strangest habit I've ever seen and when I would catch him and tell him to knock it off, he would sometimes get pissed that his parents never stopped him from doing it. His dream was to create golf courses of all things. Nice kid. Weird childhood habit..

That is a big ass three year old. That breast milk must be doing the trick.