re: #138 Simply Sarah

Eh, I see nothing wrong with a kid that age breastfeeding other than that we have culturally decided to frown upon it and that’s not a good enough reason for me. Is it unusual? Sure. But I doubt it does any harm. Now, if anything sexual starts getting involved, then we have a problem.

I remember being that young, going in to preschool and kindergarten there being discussions about which kids were still riding in car seats. A cruel hierarchy develops early on amongst the young to identify who is more developed and who is still being treated like a baby.

You’re right, I suppose, that there’s nothing specifically wrong about it besides cultural decision, but we also make cultural decisions about things like bedwetting that few children want to be publicly associated with. I’m saying that if a parent wants to take that out of the private realm and make their kid a national poster child for the parent’s proud rejection of convention that there are likely to be consequences. Consequences not necessarily conducive to that child’s social happiness.