Comments on: Babies are people too! http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html black looks Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:54:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: fab http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58580 fab Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:32:27 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58580 thanks for writing about this sokari changeseeker: you hit it right on the nail with this statement: "Babies and small children are not the difficulty. Our sped-up, fixated, self-centered culture (at least in the U.S.) is." thanks for writing about this sokari

changeseeker: you hit it right on the nail with this statement:

“Babies and small children are not the difficulty. Our sped-up, fixated, self-centered culture (at least in the U.S.) is.”

]]> By: Changeseeker http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58557 Changeseeker Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:33:49 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58557 Back in the late seventies and early eighties, I breastfed my two children until they quit (my son was almost four!) Part of the loveliness of it was that I wasn't tied to a stove or refrigerator to prepare a bottle, especially during the first year. My particular La Leche League group members believed in "baby-led weaning," so you can imagine the public fall-out. Not only was I breastfeeding anywhere and everywhere, but the child might be three years old. People would say, "How <i>long</i> are you going to breastfeed that child?" and I would respond, "Oh...until he grows up and goes to college" or some other such silly answer. Now, older and without small children of my own, I sometimes find myself frustrated by the natural sounds children make. I have to firmly take myself in hand and remind me that these are the future I purport to be so concerned about. In a world where everyone accepted the raising of children as a collective responsibility rather than the "job" of one mother overseeing one or more specific children, this attitude could not arise and the "problem" would not exist. Babies and small children are not the difficulty. Our sped-up, fixated, self-centered culture (at least in the U.S.) is. Back in the late seventies and early eighties, I breastfed my two children until they quit (my son was almost four!) Part of the loveliness of it was that I wasn’t tied to a stove or refrigerator to prepare a bottle, especially during the first year. My particular La Leche League group members believed in “baby-led weaning,” so you can imagine the public fall-out. Not only was I breastfeeding anywhere and everywhere, but the child might be three years old. People would say, “How long are you going to breastfeed that child?” and I would respond, “Oh…until he grows up and goes to college” or some other such silly answer.

Now, older and without small children of my own, I sometimes find myself frustrated by the natural sounds children make. I have to firmly take myself in hand and remind me that these are the future I purport to be so concerned about. In a world where everyone accepted the raising of children as a collective responsibility rather than the “job” of one mother overseeing one or more specific children, this attitude could not arise and the “problem” would not exist. Babies and small children are not the difficulty. Our sped-up, fixated, self-centered culture (at least in the U.S.) is.

]]> By: Refinedone http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58504 Refinedone Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:07:16 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/babies_are_people_too.html#comment-58504 This vexed me so, when I started having children….. I breast feed all my kids and I did it anywhere and everywhere…could not be bother what anyone had to say…why should I feed my child in a toilet? Will you eat your dinner in the loo? I would say- Funny, it was my own ppl that had more of a problem with it…trying to be “cultured” they lost their culture…. The more women breastfed in public the more the “public “will have to get use to it… My children are a blessing, and if you are not “comfortable” with them around- my advice is to shut your eye! This vexed me so, when I started having children…..
I breast feed all my kids and I did it anywhere and everywhere…could not be bother what anyone had to say…why should I feed my child in a toilet? Will you eat your dinner in the loo? I would say- Funny, it was my own ppl that had more of a problem with it…trying to be “cultured” they lost their culture….
The more women breastfed in public the more the “public “will have to get use to it…
My children are a blessing, and if you are not “comfortable” with them around- my advice is to shut your eye!

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