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Published: 2007-11-28 01:56:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 19631; Favourites: 182; Downloads: 305
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I was shooting a 'water series', but lunch was demanded, and lunch was served.Not many kids have to swim to the kitchen at such a young age.
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Any time is good for a feed... breastfeeding of babies and toddlers is natural and not offensive.
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Oddly, the mother and child didn't agree with you. He's probably weaned now, that was 2007.
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Perhaps your opinion of other peoples images is warranted, but their motives...? As a clinical psychologist and a youth worker, I have helped treat many people with an Oedipus Complex. It truly is 'complex', but not a syndrome.
I see the beauty of sharing, the love of a mother for her child and a particular play on light. The child is now a man and appears to be normal, balanced and healthy.
Perhaps I could draw your attention to the Sistine Chapel as the resource for what is deemed acceptable in the depiction of a woman feeding her children. While we wait for your education to catch up, I will continue to feel very sad for your narrow-minded approach to artistic integrity.
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This photo was the one that first drew me to the rest of your gallery. I have no clue how I found it initially, but it is still one of my all time favorites.
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My thanks to Aleksandra from Australia!
It's quite strange isn't it, the way a single image can sometimes draw you in....? Ask Gayle, the same thing happened to her nearly 4 years ago, and look at us now!
Thanks for sharing with me.
Beau
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Nothing else mattered - we were in the middle of a shoot, and the kid decided this was lunch time - so we kept shooting.
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This has been featured here: [link]
Thank You!
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Thank you for looking, and for including me in your beautiful pages.
Beau
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My daughter nurses like this, too .. she insists on sitting on my lap, or sometimes even standing up!
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Glad to hear it... nature needs to be left alone...
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Beautiful beautiful photograph.
And to the naysayer:
What a load of crap! Breastfeed as long as you want. Hell, I know people that bf their kids until 5 years of age - here in the US! It's nobody's business but mommy and child. And guess what? Those "really smart expert people" don't live with the people to whom they are dispensing their "expert opinions." They are specialists in a FIELD, not in someone's life. Grrrr.....
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Me too - not the best pic, but a perfect moment... captured.
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Oh no, It's just different in comparison with others in Your portfolio but I don't think that it is weaker than the others.
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Well.. The bond can't be criticised, as long as it's within it's natural borders.. I won't be the judge on how old, the kid on the picture is, but there actually is an agelimit for the child, whereafter it becomes mentally unhealthy for the child to keep breastfeeding..
Growing up is a journey away from your mother, and the first step on that journey is to stop breastfeeding (Well, the first step is being born.. The next step is to stop breastfeeding..).. If you keep breastfeeding the child beyond that natural border, you keep the child from developing naturally, when you trap it within bonds, where it doesn't belong anymore..
This is not something, that I just make up.. Some pretty smart people, who know an awfull lot about children and their development, have agreed about this a long time ago - and still do today..
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I know the comment is about a month old, but I just wanted to tell you that in most "less developed" cultures, breastfeeding usually continues until about the age of six or seven. The World Health Organization recommends at least two years, which makes more sense for our society, as children tend to mature faster in our culture.
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Sounds a bit like the question about the hen and the egg, doesn't it? Do we stop to breastfeed earlier in our society because our mature faster, or do they mature faster because we stop to breastfeed at an earlier age?
As far as I understood the things I read on the subject, it's a bit of both... We take a look at a whole lot of babies, probably several thousands, and see how they develop i accordance to how they eat at the earliest stages of their lives.. We can look at these babies in two different ways: We try to understand and read the bodylinguistic signs, our babies give away and see how these signs tell us about the babies' nutricial needs, and in accordance to these observations, we regulate what we give the babies to eat.. Or: We try to regulate the feeding of all these babies in different ways and see, how the babies react to different kinds of food at what age, and we cook up a plan on "optimum" feeding to support their developments in the best possible ways... Either way, it's all about the willingness to actually look at our children with their specific needs and wellbeing in mind...
I've got a 5 months old son, who doesn't breastfeed anymore - not on any kind of ideological or scientific grounds, but simply because he developed and grew so fast, that it took him about 3½ months to outgrow the breastmilks ability to meet his nutricional need... As far as I can see, he's got the strongest bond with my wife even if she doesn't breastfeed him anymore...
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The cradle of our civilization is among other things also the invention of the art of writing, so that knowledge could be delivered from person to person and from generation to generation in an unmediated way.. The originator could write something down, and a whole lot of people could read it and learn and develop new knowledge, which they again could write down for others to learn and so on.. This is how the 2500 years old tradition of science, that is also the cradle of our civilization, was founded.. From that science grew the concept of a "specialist" - a person, who is permited and paid to devote their whole life on knowing an awful lot more about a specific topic than almost anybody else - only almost, because we want several specialists within a field, so they can compete against each other and develop each other..
What an awful waste of time and money to educate such people, who actually know a lot more than most people about their topic, if the truth, they are paid to find out and hold and pass on, can just be discarded by any one individual at will.. Well surprise.. They know the things they know, because they made whole careers out of really knowing their stuff.. The "ordinary people" are just that - ordinary - because they are not those specialists, who get paid for actually being smart.. Thats why it actually pays of to listen to the specialists - just every once in a while..
Do I make unfounded, uninformed statements? I don't think so.. I actually quoted some of those very smart people, who have made it their livelihood to be really smart on how children evolve and develop.. You throw something back at me, that says, that everything, that any one individual chooses to do to their child, is their own business, and not anybody elses.. Well, tell that to the child in twenty years and to the society, that has to pay the bill for its treatment..
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They might be pretty smart people, but the reason that you are here today is because of the thousands of very ordinary people (our ancestors) who didn't know a thing, doing what they thought was right - creating the 'natural borders'. They were the ones that cradled our civilization.
As we got here, the surviving genetic group, anything to the contrary of those principles is questionable.
You are right, you can't be the judge, it's someone elses life and decision. The age limit for the child is only an age limit in your mind - no-one elses. Limits are judgements.
This is a photograph of people and reality - not a political, health or mental health platform for you or anyone to make an unfounded, uninformed statement as to what you personally think is right for any individual. Was the child sickly? Is the child 12 months old, or 3 years old? Is the child/mother under the care of a well informed medical professional? Is it any of my business.
NO!
But its a nice photograph.
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We now live in a world full of experts. Once we learned from our parents but now we are educated and the more educated we are becoming the less people really know about life.
Just think what would happen if everyone stopped doing what we have for centuries and changed on the basis of expert opinion. A whole generation following the "how to" advice of an expert on the "right" way to bring up and educate children then just think what would happen if, when these children become adults, become parents we discover, the expert was wrong.
Oh, I see, its already happened.
If man, the thinking ape, is so smart then why is man the only species doing its damndest to committ autogenicide - even sheep aren't that stupid.
It is a beautiful photograph, the bond between mother and child is so strong its almost visible and obviously very natural.
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The natural moments are always the real winners.
I agree... the theory of child-rearing is usually espoused by the academics that have spent so much time in their books, they have lost touch with their families... Ironic, isn't it?!?!
Beau
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Lost touch with reality.
I've had to study some of this garbage and the best I can say for most of them is misguided. The thing that really baffles me is the number of people who take it seriously (thus making them an "expert") and the influence such studies have on society.
Our experts are people who know more and more about less and less, a very narrow view.
Once we used to just do without worrying about doing it the right way now no one can do anything for themselves including think (that's what the TV is for).
Lost touch with families, kid in day care from six months, sixteen years later you realise the person living in your house is a complete stranger.
I wonder what it is an improvement over?
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Expert is just another name for 'ex-spurt' i.e. former brief release of energy no longer serving any purpose.
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Alternately - ex as in, 'has been,' spurt as in, 'Drip under pressure.'
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Yeah that would be more accurate.
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Well, looking to evolve the race into groups of goggle eyed aliens that will fit wonderfully on planet X
Hopefully, the asteroid will take all but a few cave dwellers out, so the race gets to start again...
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I love fresh starts and I'm often found in strange places (for Homo apathetica anyway).
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You just have to make sure you are not found in future!!
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If I don't want to be found I can't be found, just have to stand still and no one can see you.
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That happens to me at stores all the time.... I classify myself as the world's most transparent man.....
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Sometimes I get the impression that customers are a necessary evil best avoided if possible.
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What a tender sweet look on Mom's face. And phooey on anyone who says he's too old to nurse--I've known others who have nursed their "babies" that long, and it's a strong bonding experience.
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That natural bond just can't be criticised, and I bet that kid is as healthy as a horse when he's 90....
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