Time Magazine

Huahine

Have you all seen the latest issue of Time?  Shall we discuss?  I love the very adult looking almost 4 year old dressed in camouflage breast feeding on the cover. Could Time make it more obvious that they are exploiting the so called mommy wars to sell magazines?

And that headline "are you mom enough?" Thanks for playing on women's insecurities rather than celebrating motherhood in all of its forms.

But substantively there are a few pearls.  This is my favorite quote from the series of articles:

 

 One more important factor Badinter ignores: sober-minded naturalism ? which involves cloth diapers, homemade, organic baby food and other laborious activities ? is also a response to anxiety about the chemical stew in which we are now awash. Mothers today have to be the EPA, the FDA and the USDA. Extensive medical research on endocrine disrupters? entering our children through creams, shampoos, toys, foods and plastics ? including baby bottles ? is the real ticking time bomb in our midst.

Read more: https://ideas.time.com/2012/05/10/why-breastfeeding-isnt-the-bugaboo/#ixzz1uYg078Ke

  

Huahine

Attempt to delete from my pad failed. Let's move this discussion to the fffc thread instead.