Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

Coming from a mother who breast fed her children, I take great offense to people such as the guest on the show that said "it's just not attractive".  Mother's do not breast feed their children to draw attention to themselves, or to show off their breasts, OR TO BE ATTRACTIVE.  When our children are hungry, they have a right to eat.  The guest on the show said it was inapropriate to "take off your shirt", obviously she is not educated on the matter.  Breast feeding mothers DO NOT take their shirts off!  And, from experience, there is very minimal of the breast that is actually exposed.  I was very upset when she said it was like "putting food on my breast and having my boyfriend eat it".  NOT THE SAME THING!!!!  If I saw that happen, my first thought would be "Go get a room".  However, maybe she doesn't take into consideration that at one time, her boyfriend probably did eat from a breast, his mothers breast when he was an infant.  It also was probably in public.  God created women to be able to feed our children from our breast.  If people take offense to that, perhaps they should remove themselves from the situation. 

A-MEN!!!!!!!!!! 

"I'm sorry but I think a major issue here is that when women breasfeed in public they are interfering in the way I want my own child raised. " 

I am not understanding something here, there is so many things we see in Malls, grocery stores, on TV news, TV shows that could interfer with the way we want to raise our kids.  It is our job as parents to teach our children our believes.  Same thing as spanking, if your brother spanks his kids but you don't spank yours and your child sees this, then you as a parent need to tell your child your way of doing things.  If your child sees another child pick her nose and then your child does it, you tell your child we don't do that.  Do you get my drift?  We see on the news someone got shot, everything is interfering with the way we raise our children and it is our job as parents to teach our children the way we do it.   

 I think sex education should be taught in schools. I also think condoms should be available in schools. Some parents teach their kids about sex. Other parents don’t. And the kids that don’t learn from their parents learn from other students, TV, movies, & society in general. I would rather kids learn in an academic setting than by trial and error. Somehow I doubt kids are running out having sex just because a condom was put in their hand. Pre-teens and teenagers are probably having sex because they are pressured into it, because they are curious, because they think, “everyone else is doing it”, etc, etc.  

I don’t think people should discipline other parent’s children. In this society, I think that is opening a huge can of worms. I’ve seen my sister let her kids jump on a hospital bed. Believe me, I wanted to say something to the kids and their parents. Unfortunately, we can’t prevent other people from letting their children become a nuisance.