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"The most recent edition of Time magazine has tapped into the decades-long &amp;quot;Mommy War&amp;quot; over the best way to raise (and feed) small children. Specifically, the magazine&amp;#039;s cover shows 26-year-old California mother Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her 3-year-old son, as an image to represent the parenting style known as &amp;quot;attachment parenting.&amp;quot; Attachment parenting is a method that was presented in Dr. William Sears&amp;#039; 1992 book &amp;quot;The Baby Book,&amp;quot; which promotes co-sleeping, carrying your child in a sling instead of a stroller and breastfeeding until the child self-weans, among other things. Actress Mayim Bialik, one celebrity mom who practices attachment parenting and who was recently criticized for still breastfeeding her 3-year-old, has a newly-published memoir titled &amp;quot;Beyond the Sling.&amp;quot; She is a vocal advocate of the technique. I am not a mother, so for one thing I believe that I only have so much of a right to an opinion on this matter. But my opinion is that as long as children are healthy and happy, parents should raise them whichever way works best in their household and under their life&amp;#039;s unique constraints. So the article itself, while interesting, is creating a stir that I just think is unnecessary. Exposing the public to different parenting styles is great. But asking if those parenting style are right or wrong? As I said, assuming the child is healthy and happy, then it is not a matter of morals but a matter of what works for you. But what really struck me (and most people) about this article is the cover. The image of a woman breastfeeding a standing child was meant to be controversial. And I just wonder if the magazine was more interested in being provocative than it was in creating a forum for a healthy and honest discussion. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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