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Extended nursing f/u: so weird!

futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member
in Northern California Babies

I got home tonight and after my mom left, and DS and I were hanging out, he started talking about kid versus babies, and how babies eat laying down.  And he's a kid and eats sitting up.  And then later he said he wanted baby milk which is not what we call nursing.  I asked him about it and he said mama's milk is for babies.  :(  

The world works in really mysterious ways.

 

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Re: Extended nursing f/u: so weird!

  • jsugrinjsugrin member

    Wow he really is a sensitive kiddoStick out tongue.j

    In all honestly though, isn't it weird how things happen like that sometimes.  I had to go back and read the other post since it didn't apply to me so I hadn't earlier and that is incredibly funny that he would make that jump with that language.

    So was today and Preschool day or Gramma day?  I wonder if he either read a book that had babies being fed bottles or saw someeone feeding a baby today.  Maybe he was tired and trying to lay down and eat his lunch? lol.  I so wish I could just climb right into their heads sometimes.

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  • futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member
    Half day preschool/half day Gramma.  :)  I tried asking him who said mama's milk is for babies and he clammed up.  It's so strange.  He talked quite a bit just before that about things that girls do X and boys do Y (neither of which made any sense), so I had a feeling there was some classification discussion at school.  And my first thought was that I was glad he wasn't picking it up from me.  I know it's normal kid stuff but it feels like a slippery slope to me from "I'm a big kid and you are a baby" to bullying other kids for nursing, or not using the potty or having an accident.  Which sounds like I'm being a hysterical weirdo.  :(
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  • jsugrinjsugrin member

    I totally get what you are saying, especially when he's going to get some exposure to that from the family it sounds like.  I also totally understand Ashley's POV and loved her approach but I think that most people do use that language in a threatening, demeaning way to push their kids to "grow up" and leave the "baby" stuff behind.  Hell I've even heard Andrew say to Cooper that he's a baby and Andrew is a big kid, totally in a bully kind of way and it's not because I pushed Andrew in that way but simply because he saw Cooper be a baby and knows that he's younger and can't do as much stuff as Andrew can.  He even "teases" Cooper that he's not grow up enough yet to go to preschool.

    So no, I don't think you sound like a hysterical weirdo at all.  It's almost like kids are hardwired to tease and bully and we really have to work to break them of that.

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  • futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member
    Thank you J.  You always know what to say to make me feel better.  :)
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