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May 02, 2006
Oh, No He Didn't!
This comment was left Thursday in regards to this post.
I don't see anything wrong with a 5 year old child still wanting to be breastfed! I also don't see why you all are making such a BIG FUSS about a 5 year old ( or older) still in diapers! I really believe that you all should get your act together and not worry about older children wearing diapers or still breastfeeding!!. Whenever the child is ready to stop breastfeeding I'm sure that He / She will let their mother know! ( Same applies to wearing diapers!)Steve McPhail
Steve, Steve, Steve. Poor, poor, Steve. Who mcFailed you as a child? You have left me to believe in these few short sentences that your mother should have eaten you at birth while your bones were still soft saving us all a lot of trouble these many years later.
Raising a child comes with it obligations and responsibility that in no way should be taken lightly. Sadly there are people who do take it lightly. There are those people who have no notion of what being a parent requires. They bring forth the fruit if their loins and leave it for the rest of society to deal with.
Being a parent should require that one have a bit of common sense to go along with it but sadly it doesn't and therefore we have people that spout off and have no idea what garbage and assery just spewed forth from their finger tips due to a misfiring of neurons.
Notwithstanding the notion you may have the ability to breastfeed your child as you could be a member of the African Aka tribe of pygmies somehow I am doubting that right now. When you grow a set of mammary glands that produces lactational goodness to sustain a growing baby then you can have a say so in this arena.
I can write a bunch of sentences here about teeth and eating and weaning. I can address lengthy paragraphs to the liberal lactators and their nazi-nurser counterparts but I know it will do no good whatsoever and will only serve to fill my comments and email inbox with crap I won’t read or respond to.
I will simply suggest this to you, Steve -
Walk into any elementary school and take a good close look at the Kindergarten and first grade children. Do any of them look like they would benefit in any way whatsoever to be still breastfeeding? Take a closer look at those children and tell me you want to be the one who has to wipe the hind ends of those whose mother's and father's were too lazy to take the time to teach that child how to use a toilet and to clean himself.
Oh, wait! You can't! Children who cannot use the toilet and clean themselves can't go to school because they haven't been given the training needed to enter a more independent society setting.
This leads right back to a little bit of common sense. Too much of a good thing makes it a not so good thing in the end.
Please do not fill my comments with the diatribe of litany pertaining to the emotional comfort of breastfeeding your older child. It is all bullshit and a problem YOU have with not letting your child be more independent of you at an earlier age. Wean your babies. Potty train your toddlers. Let them have some dignity and independence.
Amen.
Posted by Angie at May 2, 2006 07:27 AM
Comments
Bravo Angie! I dont think you could have responded better!
It is a disgrace that people dont do the right thing for their children!
Posted by: kate at May 2, 2006 10:48 AM
AMEN Sister!!!!
Posted by: Pamalam at May 2, 2006 11:25 AM
AMEN!!!!!!! Times infinity.
Posted by: LeeMarie at May 2, 2006 12:48 PM
I know this was a serious subject, but it made me laugh. It never mcFails to shock me what lurks in the heads of people. The good thing is even with screwed up parents some children will grow up to be worthwhile adults.
Posted by: Hope at May 2, 2006 01:36 PM
I get to busy to blog for a bit and look what I come back to! Cows and controversy! The philosophy of children doing something "until they want to quit" sounds altogether loose to me. Abby might still be sitting on the swing across the street buck naked...
Posted by: vicki at May 2, 2006 02:43 PM
Right on, Angie!
Posted by: vickie at May 2, 2006 04:07 PM
Sing it!
Posted by: liz at May 2, 2006 06:08 PM
AMEN! That guy apparently knows nothing about training children.
Posted by: kenju at May 2, 2006 07:03 PM
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Posted by: Joy Waltmire at May 2, 2006 07:13 PM
Oh, thank you, thank you for brightening my day. Currently McLaughing my McArse off at the image of Steve being an Aka pygmy. But I'm pretty sure he's a tiny man in at least one important part of the anatomy!
Posted by: The Bec Half of Glamorouse at May 3, 2006 01:08 AM
OMG, I can't believe he had the audacity to write such a stupid comment. Perhaps if more people understood the need to set boundaries for kids, then we'd have fewer children acting out so badly. My son is two and not yet toilet trained, but the potty is there, he knows what it's for and he's getting there. He stopped breastfeeding at 18 months, mainly because I had an x-ray that required nuclear something or other, but I would have stopped anyway because he was grabbing at my chest. WTF?? I reclaimed my boobs. And stuffed if I'm going to be wiping his ass when he's five!
Hell, if we waited for kids to tell us when they're ready to do things, we'd be waiting until we were dead. Does he expect that our kids will tell us when they're sick of watching tv? Or when they're sick of eating sweets and chips? Or when they're ready to go to school? I think not.
Posted by: myfloat at May 3, 2006 06:22 AM
I have a lot to say about this, but no time right now. In as few words as possible: I agree with you. As a teacher, I see huge problems with kids who are babied by their parents.
Posted by: MizS at May 3, 2006 07:24 AM
Hey, you'd make a good Montessori teacher...
You'd just have to say what you said here very calmly and deliberately, looking the parent in the eye and saying, "I'm thinking about what's best for your child."
Montessori is all about independence.
Posted by: Raehan at May 3, 2006 01:22 PM
McFail? Bwah ha ha ha!
This is the funniest post you have ever, ever written- although I know you were serious. I am still laughing.
Beyond the issues that parents must have who would allow their child to breastfeed or wear diapers at the age of FIVE are the issues that child will have when confronted by his peers who will surely make fun of him at every possible opportunity once they learn about his habits.
Anyway, you "tell it like it is" better than any blogger I know. Hooray for Angie!
Posted by: Lucinda at May 3, 2006 02:34 PM
the McFail line cracked me right up. Now, I'm off to nurse my nine year old before he logs on to play Warcraft. He's a growing boy y'know.
oh my good god blech, blech, blech. even typing it gave me the heebie jeebies.
but scarily enough, I know two first graders who will hold "it" all day because their mom's aren't in school to wipe their bums. They'll reap what they sow, I guess.
Posted by: jenny at May 3, 2006 06:34 PM
Oh how I love it when Ms. Angie puts on her ass-kickin' boots! Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant post. This McSteve would benefit immensely from a few sessions of Angie 101. Let's start a fund for him, shall we?
Posted by: MommaK at May 4, 2006 07:56 AM
Very well put!
Posted by: Jennifer at May 5, 2006 09:21 PM
I am soooo shaking my head here. People really do this stuff - breastfeed their five year olds and keep them in diapers???? Where have I been for the last 58 years????? I've honestly never heard of such stupidity. That being said, Ms. Angie, your ass-kickin' is a mighty fine thing. You go girl.
Posted by: Annie at June 3, 2006 03:05 AM
While I completely commend this post, and a serious slap-down of Mr. McPhail, might I dare suggest that he might just be playing "devil's advocate" for the sake of getting everyone all riled up?
Regardless, I totally agree with what all of you have said. I know a woman whom I refer to as a Militant La Leche Leaguer, and she breastfed her daughter until she was 11. Yes, I said ELEVEN. And yes, the daughter grew up to be nearly dysfunctional as her mother; just exactly what society needed. It just boggles the mind.
Posted by: hollybygolly at June 3, 2006 03:34 PM
oh my god. I'm so embarassed. That is my long lost uncle who wrote that post. Yes, that's my last name. I'm so embarssed for him.
No really, I have no idea who he is, but his opinions are gross.
Posted by: mommyontheverge at June 4, 2006 12:11 AM
"Steve" was obviously a troll looking to stir things up with the most controversial thing he could think of. And it obviously worked.
Posted by: greg andrews at June 9, 2006 09:45 AM