Check out the cover of time magazine
attachment parenting
and its attachment parenting to the nth degree
as much as I  love
breastfeeding and i think it's really
important in infancy and
toddler years, maybe
possibly
it's really important the first year
I think it's 
somewhat important the second year
the third here
you're just on your own
uh... I'm not going to be bugged if people
do it but
your kid doesn't need it anymore and uh...
you know and and those are the years that
kids are learning separate from parents
so i i think it's important to give them
skill. They've just realized that they're
their own person
and isn't it awesome
that we allow our children to
become a little independent you know it
little by little that you know i'm not
saying push them out of the nest but
you know show them that there's an edge to
it
this image i do not believe will be embraced
by the attachment parenting community
there's nothing attachment about it it's
it's an it's very striking
it's it does its job in garnering a huge
amount of attention this will get at a huge
amount of attention big
no mistake about it so in that it
successful
in representing attachment parenting
this is really not uh...
this is not going to do a good job
uh...
it's been nice to be able to
as a blogger and as a parenting blogger
i struggle and many of us have
struggled with which stories are ours to
tell and what part of
family life belongs to you know
the blogosphere or to a magazine
and which stories of children's are
fair game
so
i am not sure
that this is a story that i think it is
kind to tell for someone's child and 
I've got to say that I see
I have some ability to look back on on
 what can happen and what might
happen
and pictures like this
images like this come back to bite them
and and when you google on his mother's name
this will be the image that comes up
and that could make junior high school
a very very tough place to be
not a decision I would have made
I don't think that she's a bad mother I
think she's a terrific mothere. By all
accounts these are fantastic kids
and uh... and Jamie is the local mom
so to want that to be very clear but
ad
moms
I get it
when we have our little little kids its
incredible because it's like
it's the first job that you actually
care about doing well or for me it
was me maybe I wasn't
the best worker in the world
but for me it was the first job where i
was like this I've got to do well this
I have to master and then
looking back now just a little bit just
a little hindsight for y'all I've got a 
thirteen-year-old
the most important job i have now is
making sure that she doesn't turn into
a felon [laugh] So
it changes and and and and breastfeeding
although it feels like the most
important thing and it is
granted is extraordinarily important and
your bond with your children is
extremely important
it might not be
the most important part of their lives so maybe
let's have a little discussion about
what part of our children's lives that
we are willing to share
