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 Don't you get that people can't always just walk away?  If I'm at the park with my 4 year old, and my 5 month old gets hungry, should I make my 4 year old leave the park because his brother is hungry?  and, if you are worried about your son seeing someone nursing, maybe you should teach him the NORMAL way infants eat; just as i taught my son that  some babies drink from a bottle. 

Are you KIDDING!!?? There are so many things that are wrong about what you just said that I am having trouble figuring out where to START!!!!! What is it about explaining to your 5 year old that a woman is feeding her baby that you have a problem with?    You say that you don't walk around with food for your son to eat, that if he is hungry you go somewhere to eat..... well, us breastfeeding mums DO walk around with food for our babies to eat, because I'm sorry to break it to you, but if our babies are not yet on solids...we don't have the option of just "taking them somewhere to eat"!!!  Your comment that woman who breastfeed in public are just looking for attention is absolutely ridiculous, surely you cannot be serious!?!  We are not pulling out our breasts and shoving our nipples in YOUR mouth!!We are FEEDING OUR CHILDREN. Attention from our husbands is not even relevant, you are turning a childs need for nourishment into a sexual thing, and if you are that close minded then I feel very sorry for you.

 I would think it would be better to explain to a child the propper use of a breast  than for it to be taught it is an embarrising subject because it is something sexual. First of all, it would teach him to respect the female body because we are not just sex toys. Second of all, just because  you don't adress the issue with a responce that you feel is understandabe  for his age, doesn't mean he won't find an answer- that you may not like. I know my children have come up with difficult questions, but that is part of the job.

 How 'bout this: when your son asks what people are doing, you might want to try ANSWERING HIM. "That woman is feeding her baby." There, how hard is that to say? Six words, none of them over two syllables. What's to "explain" that would be at all age-inappropriate?

Then tell him what they are for instead of letting him think they are for sexual pleasure.