I read THIS ARTICLE today and thought it would be interesting to see other parents' feedback. Do you as a mother/father think this is inappropriate or okay? I, personally, find myself right down the middle on this one. While I will not be purchasing a doll like this (hello, expensive! and Avy has plenty of dollies) for my daughter, I certainly wouldn't scold her for mimicking me and Norah with one of her own baby dolls. She knows there are different ways babies are fed and this is one of them. It's God's way of how he created mommys to provide food for their babies. Not that everyone has to, but some choose to or just can't. God's way of bringing babies into the world is also natural, but that's not the way my babies were brought into the world. (They were all 3 c-sections, unfortunately.)
Anyway, thought it might be interesting for discussion. Have your little ones ever mimicked nursing and if so, what was your reaction?
3 comments:
I can see how people might "sexualize" this doll, like the article said, but I don't really see anything wrong with it.
I think Kayleigh would like having a doll that she could feed like that, and have it make all of the noises. She sees me nursing Brian and mimics it all the time. It may have also been a good toy to show her what I was going to do before Brian was born.
It cracks me (and other who have seen her) up to see her want to nurse her babies. That doesn't bother me. What makes me blush is when she tells people, "Brian drinks from Mommy's boobie!" Lovely. :)
I don't think it sexualizes kids. It's a little weird with it's loud sucking noise and frat house burps though. I think a lot of kids use their regular baby dolls and their imagination to 'breast feed' their babies all the time. Sabrina ( my 5 y/o) said she couldn't wait until her 'boobies' were big enough to feed a baby like I do (with brother Sam). I explained, when you have your babies ( 30 years from now) you'll be just the right size for your babies. My friends son ( he was 3) was ' breast feeding' his Snoopy while his baby sister was being fed. We didn't tell him he couldn't. He'll figure it out on his own soon enough. The point being kids mimic what the people around them do. Parents , teachers etc teach them what's considered good or bad.
My second son, Dayne breast feed his baby when his brother was born. monkey see, monkey do, no matter what the sex.
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