tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post4076816711892135845..comments2022-07-27T00:08:13.293-07:00Comments on The Original Dragon Mother: Back to basicsKazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-40633311915146781342013-07-27T23:58:41.970-07:002013-07-27T23:58:41.970-07:00You yenta, you, Rach!!
Thanks for your comments. ...You yenta, you, Rach!!<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. Oh yes - the beloved Bamix...my boys got all sorts of food pureed and mashed. I made a baby muesli from scratch that they got initially mixed with breast milk until I could start them on yoghurt and stewed fruits. To this day, they eat a way wider variety of different foods than most people I know their age...let alone the current generation!<br /><br />And yes...I was sad for days when mine weaned themselves... It's such a special time. And I used to feel SO proud when they were tiny, and stacking on a pound a week - and it was ALL my milk!! GOOD stuff!Kazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-38163000853248195762013-07-27T22:30:48.281-07:002013-07-27T22:30:48.281-07:00Oooh, I feel like a proud cyber-matchmaker now!
...Oooh, I feel like a proud cyber-matchmaker now! <br /><br />Great post, Karen. I can remember putting all our meals into the food processor when the children were babies so they could eat real food and letting them practise feeding themselves with steamed veggies and homemade rusks. And, as for breast-feeding, it was 12 months when mine were little and each of them went to 14 months before self-weaning. I think I missed it more than either of them.<br />Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10948588356904187536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-729734415523266302013-07-27T00:21:52.730-07:002013-07-27T00:21:52.730-07:00Hi Jodie!
I'm glad you found my blog and stop...Hi Jodie!<br /><br />I'm glad you found my blog and stopped by! Thanks for your feedback.<br /><br />Absolutely, there needs to be WAY more education and support for nursing mothers. As long as we have a situation - that appears to be worsening rather than improving - where the women are being penalised for feeding their babies, and are told that what they're doing is 'disgusting' (something I saw recently as a comment in a newspaper article from some guy interviewed) and the flip side of that is that young men and women can be running around in revealing clothes that are intended to make a sexual statement that's not always, in my opinion, appropriate, then we have a skewed view of the world operating... Messy sentence that! Sorry!!<br /><br />And your second point - absolutely. I'm very lucky with my current job, where that wouldn't actually be an issue - even if my kids still required more active time from me. Those of my colleagues who do have younger kids are well supported. However, it's not always been the case in other jobs, and I've had to fight to get and hang onto jobs in the past. <br /><br />We need to rethink the way we operate as communities so that people CAN live sustainably - and that's not just about environmental sustainability. It's about the village that we've lost... Food for thought!<br /><br />Good to have your comments - hope to see you back sometime!<br /><br />KKazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-60022574620153356382013-07-26T23:50:07.593-07:002013-07-26T23:50:07.593-07:00Love your blog post and agree with the points you ...Love your blog post and agree with the points you make, especially about BREASTFEEDING - the food that nature has provided for babies...at the same time it is important to appreciate that a mother who is bottle-feeding her baby may be doing so because she was unable to breast feed for some reason and just because it is a bottle, doesn't automatically mean that there isn't breast milk in that bottle. As soon as people stop judging mothers, it will be a better world.<br /><br />However I do believe that there needs to be more education in society and support for breastfeeding mothers and we can all share in that responsibility for nurturing the next generations.<br /><br />Have you also noticed there seems to be an attitude towards the next generations (children) that they are a liability instead of an important part of society that needs to be nurtured and loved and educated to take their place in the world? There once was a time where, when two equally qualified people applied for a job, the parent got the position in preference to the single person in recognition that the parent has family responsibilities and the job will support more than one person. Nowadays, employers see parents as liabilities, as 'unreliable' people with more absenteeism due to family responsibilies and greater expense because of parental leave etc.<br /><br />I don't understand why people have forgotten that we are all human beings, biological organisms, and not robots. Why can't they see that raising children well is the most important job in the world?<br /><br />Thank you for leaving a comment on Footprints so I could find your blog!Jodiebodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377052537742885631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-33676774827680120372013-07-21T03:57:08.071-07:002013-07-21T03:57:08.071-07:00Hi Jack,
You have a point - and it's the same...Hi Jack,<br /><br />You have a point - and it's the same thing that I think is the main thrust of Kort's article, albeit not spelled out, is that we in the West have 'developed' ourselves to a point that we've lost touch entirely with what it takes to actually survive. Most Western countries have some kind of welfare system, so even for those doing it tough, there's a roof, there's food, there are TV's and other luxuries even... It's not to say that life isn't necessarily difficult - I've been there, and it wasn't easy, but I was well aware that in other countries single women in my position, with children to support, didn't have the safety net I had in the form of a government pension while I got myself back on my feet. <br /><br />When we lose contact with the elemental level of the cultures in the articles, we start to focus on all the things we DON'T have, it seems to me, and life becomes a process of chasing acquisition after acquisition. We forget to be grateful for the things we have - and THAT is the epidemic in Western society today methinks.<br /><br />KKazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679982583847135662.post-20769913450939754732013-07-20T06:43:26.014-07:002013-07-20T06:43:26.014-07:00Hmmm. Used to think it was just an American thing....Hmmm. Used to think it was just an American thing. Now here's an Aussie doing a session on it. So is it an English-speaking thing, or a developed nation phenomenon? What is "it?" The way that the only things anyone gets excited about anymore is the chance to mind someone else's business for them.<br /><br />Got a neighbor who won't even nod and say "Morning?" Tell him you're for (or against) gay marriage, and see what happens! Are you shunned at the office? Stand up with an opinion about <i>any</i> issue, from car registration fees to water fluoridation (never mind the niceties of breast-feeding), and you'll get enough conversation to last you for the rest of your life! Nothing brings 'em out of the woodwork like the chance to stick their noses where they have no business.<br /><br />Really good observations. Everyone who reads this will be saying, "Yeah, that describes everybody else to a T! I wonder how I was able to avoid being like that..."<br /><br />Epiphany: I wonder if this is the norm in societies where people have been relieved of the non-stop effort to feed themselves, and so feel the need to fill those free hours with pointing out what's wrong with everyone else?Jack Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14030471723776022615noreply@blogger.com