Would You Buy Your Daughter a Doll That She Breastfeeds?
- Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:02am by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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A doll that imitates a breast-feeding infant teaches nurturing, the toy’s maker says, but some parents are outraged.
Berjuan Toys’ “Breast Milk Baby” comes with a special halter top, ABC News reports.
The top has two flowers where nipples would be. When the doll’s mouth is brought to a sensor in the flower, it makes suckling motions and sounds.
Dennis Lewis, Berjuan’s U.S. spokesman, said, “There have been people who have called us pedophiles, they’ve called us perverts, they‘ve said we’re endangering little girls.
“Breast-feeding was a normal part of life before a few greedy pharmaceutical companies tried to make it rich selling artificial milk,” he said. “A girl who plays with a breast-feeding baby now will think this is the normal way to feed a baby.”



















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momsense
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:48amAnything to push Obama’s third world aganda for the US.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:58amBecause breastfeeding a child, the way God intended, is SOOOO much a third world practice.
Are you thinking bottles are the only civilized way to feed a child?
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:29amI breastfed all of my children, and I think that it is the best thing for a baby. But this is going way too far. If a little girl wants to pretend to breastfeed her dolls, fine. But there should not be a special doll marketed for this.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:02pmUnless of course I thought of it first and meant no harm other than starting a business and use my actions to support my ideals of a truly Capitalist society! ….and create a few jobs.
And if some kids decides to breastfeed due to my product….well, I guess we have a winner.
The real shame is that formula is poison. There is nothing “natural’ about it. Make all the excuses you want… but I don‘t want to hear unless you’re a molecular biologist who believes in Creation.
Report Post »BellaMia7
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:26amConsidering the abundance of the prosti-tot culture, I don’t see anything wrong with this if kept in the home. It is natural. It’s a beautiful and healthy process that does indeed need encouragement, in order to be perpetuated. The question is whether is this vulgar or not. Nursing is usually a quiet activity, and the baby rarely makes loud noises.
The europeans were the first not to shave legs and armpits, and I think this falls in line with their au natural culture. The market should decide this – and will.
As always, the best example is mom.
Report Post »BMMiller1975
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:49amGuess you didn’t nurse my son! He was NOISY.
Report Post »Madcat151
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:24amHell no! WTF is wrong with people these days?!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:56amWTF is wrong with YOU? Little girls do this with their dolls naturally if they see their own mommies breastfeed. Do you think breastfeeding is pervy?
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:14amWhat?
Report Post »Sinclare
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:54amI figure this is just a April Fools Joke but in case it isn‘t I’ll put my 2cents in from a dad’s perspective:
Breast feeding is shown to have positive short/long term effects for both the mother and the child. While every mother can’t do it due to time/job constraints, I think it’s better for them if they can. In today‘s society where we have been taught by progressives that you shouldn’t nurture your baby the way GOD set things up, this could be a ok thing if properly regulated by the parent that they could play with it in private home use (seeing a young girl walking around in public with one would make me cringe). Seriously, it‘s just a natural function and I doubt girls haven’t used any ‘ol doll playing pretend before. That said the “flower sensor” thing creeps me out a bit.
Report Post »Lexi L.
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:34amSpeaking from my own life i remeber being a young girl my mother bringing home my baby sister. I did everything to my dolls that my mom did with my sister. From putting on dipers, burping, putting to bed, bathing and yes i clearly remember pretending to breastfeed the baby doll. Children by nature copy thier parents and engage in pretend play. I dont think that the play I engaged in on my own is perverted or disgusting or was an attack on my innocence as a few people have labled it here.
That said, those of you bashing I ask you to look in your childs toy box a little more carefully before you pass judgement. My child is 5 and there have been times when we have gone for a play date and there are of course the bratz dolls (that imho look that they should be standing on a conner in a red light district) or barbies in mini skirts.
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:18amI believe you used your IMAGINATION to pretend-breast-feed your baby doll. But your Mom didn‘t go out and buy you a ’breast-feeding doll’ right? Do you see the difference?
Do we need these dolls to teach young girls that eventually, if they choose to breed, they need a doll to influence a parenting decision (not that it might be TOO EARLY for them to even think about how they’ll feed a real baby), or do the mothers get to actually do that influencing? Are toy manufacturers afraid that mothers these days don’t know how to be a power of example to their daughters, that a TOY must do the job?
Report Post »unlfan03
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:26amLexi, I was actually going to post the same thing about being a little girl, playing with my dolls and mimicking my mom. Actually having the doll mimic a breastfeed is just the next step from having dolls that poop and pee when you “feed” them. And to be honest one of the dolls my youngest sister had would “eat” with mouth movements just like this one.
Report Post »2 reasons I am not surprised by this doll if it is a real thing.
1.) There is the trend toward breastfeeding in culture today
2.) Most toys today appear to stifle rather than encourage a child’s imagination
Bearing these in mind of course the toy company is going to make a toy that takes advantage of this trend that follows the typical “give the child a toy that does everything but put itself away” model. The next step is to make a toy that will put itself away.
Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:16amBetsy Ross you are right.
Report Post »Our society continually reinforces the idea that we parents need an expert. For education, for nutrition,for sex ed,bullying ed, The new one “The Student Non Discrimination Act” in congress now to homosexualize our youth (K-12) thanks Kevin Jennings – I knew you hadn’t disappeared.
Now a doll is the expert for “teaching’ nurturing.
I guess we need an expert to wake up Americans to the tyranny at hand.
Expert= Ex-a has-been,Spurt-a drip under pressure.
texasfarmer
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:29amA “play date”? Do you to structure your child life so tightly? What was that about letting them be kids? And if the have bratz dolls who was the degenerate who got them those?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:54am“Do we need these dolls to teach young girls that eventually, if they choose to breed, they need a doll to influence a parenting decision ”
People who use the term “breed” when talking about having children reveal their screwed up mentality right away.
And to think that breastfeeding is a “parenting decision”, rather than the natural method for feeding your child, further indicates that they have taken concepts of absolute autonomy and personal liberty to mean freedom from basic biological reality and from common sense. God forbid you would encourage little girls to want to do what nature and nature’s God created them to do.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:31amWhere are all these liberal feminists who think girls should get dump trucks, just like boys?
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:07amUnfortunately, all the moms who didn’t breast feed their children will be too defensive to buy it.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:00amI think we are seeing the consequnce of years of feminist hostility to feminine nature and the companion Playboy mentality of objectifying women sexually and separating sexual desire from childbearing. Breasts become primarily sex objects and breastfeeding becomes seen as a provacative act.
Report Post »ricksaint
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 5:30amI’m not even going to waste my time asking what is wrong with these progressives, but I do have to ask, what is wrong with letting a child be just that, a child. We keep stripping these kids of their innocence earlier and earlier in life. Kids are told that there is no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and such. Children need to hold on to their innocence, God knows that being an adult is not all that fun!
Report Post »Chett
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:21amI don’t really see the big deal. Its actually pretty sad that many of todays girls don’t even know about breast feeding. Its a natural part of life – whats the fuss?
Report Post »Refounderparty
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:48amNext to hit store shelves, grandma craps her diaper, daddy pees the recliner, and get the door for your Mama, cause she‘s a crack ho’!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:43amTo be honest, I see both sides of this issue and I am not sure what I would do. I would probably not buy the doll for my child but if one were given to her I would not be against her playing with it. Wow, tough issue! http://wp.me/pYLB7-PL
Report Post »proudamerican1990
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:42amwow, i thought that doll that came out 10 years ago or so
“mommy, I have to go potty” or whatever was weird…
This is just, I can’t even find the words
Report Post »williammcc1
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:38amHow about just those that want this atrocity buy it and those that don’t not buy it.
Report Post »Each of us have made our decisions on how to raise our children there are some things I would have done different with my daughter but that is a personal decision. The parents have there rights as far as there child is concerned and as long as those decisions do not harm the child then I don’t have a problem with it.
islandlady
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:01amThis is discusting!!!!!!!!!!! Children should remain children this is a dirrect attack on children and their innocence. My sixteen year old girl thinks too it is perverted. Not something a little girl should be doing. Baby simulation in high school is okay. But breastfeeding. Uh uh.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:42amLearning is all about being a child. You should be angry they sell cabbage patch kids.
Report Post »They sell baby dolls with bottles…what does that do to a child? Shut up
Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:03amYour sixteen you old girl is teenager. That means she is naturally screwed up mantally.
Report Post »But maybe she learned from you to think breastfeeding is dirty.
JJ Coolay
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:36amYour sixteen you old girl is teenager. That means she is naturally screwed up mantally.
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Any more typos in a single sentence and I’d think you were naturally screwed up mentally.
It‘s not that it’s “dirty” it‘s that it’s not necessary. 6 year olds do not need exposure to everything adult.
Report Post »BMMiller1975
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:47amBreastfeeding is not disgusting. It’s natural and normal, and perfectly healthy. A child pretending to nurse her baby is no different than a child pretending to bottle feed her baby.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:14pmGirls as children learn younger and younger how unacceptable it is to play mommy.Usually if their mom is nursing a baby all the kids are usually fairly young and that is when they imitate.
Report Post »That IS innocence.
Innocence lacks cynicism. They lack all the fear that we adults work so vigorously to instill. We make it especially easy since we use ignorance.
Vie_En_Ras
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:42am1) Any child (little girl more or less) who is breastfed exclusively (especially those whose mothers believe in extended breast feeding) who also later have a sibling who is breastfed will play ‘breastfeeding’ without the aid of this toy. Any of you who are against this toy going to stop your child and punish them for ‘breastfeeding’? (that is, assuming they even know what it is since many kids don’t even know anymore.)
2) Innocence people. Just because your mind might turn to something sick doesn‘t mean the kid’s thinking it too!
Personally, I probably wouldn’t buy the doll for my kid, but if someone were to give it to her, I wouldn’t have a problem of her playing with it inside the house at her age now. 10 years +, I‘d question why she’s still playing with baby dolls.
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:23amI am with you on this one!
Report Post »Having taught preschool for 10 years I can tell you first hand that whatever you do in your home, if your 3 or 4 yr old child knows it (and they know alot more than you think), so does their teacher (if she pays attention that is) because they will act it out in play, especially in the dramatic or housekeeping play area. Oh the stories I can tell!
Young children LEARN by play. More than once I had little girls pretending to breast feed dolls, and they were not made especially for it like this doll. I was always amazed at the parents who go upset if their little boy played in the kitchen area, or God forbid, with a doll! Yet, those same little boys, when they get older and become a father, are expected to help care for that baby. Little girls play at being a mom, but many refuse to let their little boys play “dad”. Think about it, we allow little girls to practice being a mom, but we tell our boys that playing house and playing with dolls is for girls (or worse, embarrass or belittle the boys) if they want to pretend to be a dad. Then when they do become a dad, we expect them to help take care of the baby.
Both of my boys had their own doll, my oldest son (now 14) is as tough and “boy” as can be, excellent wrestler and football player (also great student by the way) and my youngest has a less aggressive temperament than his brother, but still wrestles and plays soccer and can’t wait to play football when he is old enough (he is 8 and can join the youth league this fall),
Vie_En_Ras
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 12:18pmI know what you’re talking about Nobamazone. I chose to stay at home with my daughter and can hear her play ‘mommy’ with her toys – including the punishments for misbehavior.
I understand how some people are feeling awkward about the toy. That’s fine. Obviously it’s not for everyone, however I wish people would stop and think about what they’re saying. Some things I’ve read so far are near-vilifying breastfeeding – as if no one should ever do it – to equating breastfeeding as bad as pole-dancing/being of loose morals? Seriously? I find this amazing considering a few stories back the same people were all over how horrible it is to bully others. Is this not just another form of bullying? Which brings my reply full circle and further backs up your reply: Kids learn from adults. Want to stop bullying? Here you go. People replying to things like this is exactly where it‘s being picked up because it’s being disguised as something ‘acceptable’ as posting your own views while sliding in personal insults.
And as for all the comments regarding ‘don’t let the market teach your child values’ – what? Last time I checked, I never had a gun to my head forcing me to buy this doll. If I was bent on wanting to teach my daughter the importance of breastfeeding at her age (for whatever reason that would be?) I would have a doll to do it. Just as much as I would have a doll to teach her how to wipe up imaginary glowing #1 or #2 or how to make tiny baked goods and bracelets.
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:04pmVi
“Kids learn from adults. Want to stop bullying? Here you go. People replying to things like this is exactly where it‘s being picked up because it’s being disguised as something ‘acceptable’ as posting your own views while sliding in personal insults.”
ABSOLUTLEY! I totally agree with you, I consider myself a conservative Christian, and many times the posts on here are out of line. You are also right about the bullying, did a great deal of research on the issue because I almost did masters thesis/project on the issue of preventing bullying (changed my mind, but not until after I had read hundreds of pages of research). Kids learn more IN THEIR HOME then they do in school! Especially when it comes to how to treat others, a bully is a bully for a reason, not that this is an excuse, I am fully in favor of consequences to behavior, but just punishing the bully does not solve the problem, the problem is being fed, most times in the home.
Report Post »Vie_En_Ras
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:00pmNobamazone – Exactly. One thing that really gets under my skin are all these people on tv who further push the bullying mentality. TV shows – ‘real’ and scripted – and even the evening news commentators/comedians can, with the same breath, denounce how horrible bullying is, then turn around and talk about how ‘stupid’ the other side is or how smart/correct their own side is. To me, that’s bullying right there. “Fit in or we’ll continue to make fun of you.” (or in this case: Anyone who thinks this doll is great is a perverted freak.)
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:15amNOBAMAZONE-
Report Post »Can you site some resources for me? I would very much like to read up on this topic.
Thanks
rightwinglefty
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:41amMaybe one for Sasha and one for Malia.
Report Post »tweetybird
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 8:41amObama wouldn’t want to “burden” his daughters with that doll.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:20amYes, I wonder how many commenters here horrified or disgusted by this doll realize that they are in perfect harmony with liberal thinking.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:50pm@TWEETYBIRD
Report Post »You got that all wrong, it’s “I don’t want ma dauwtas PUNISHED witha Baiba Doll”!
CrazyJ
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:35amMoxnews? Is that a real news agency? is this a real news story? are you being duped?
Report Post »alaskajohn
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:31amThat is so sick I don’t know what to say.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:51amThat’s good, because you don’t know what you are talking about.
I guess you haven’t been around little girls playing with dolls that much, at least girls who have mommies that breastfeed. I’ve seen little girls put dolls up to their chests and pretend to feed it the way mommy does. Do you think that is sick?
Report Post »dennybug
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:20amwhat ever happened to common since? We as a nation have lost our morals in our homes, schools, and most of all in our courts! We need to go back in time when the mentioning of God wasn’t criticized but respected. Do away with the P.C., BS and speek the truth. Let kids be kids the rest will follow much later in time hopefully and respectfully!!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:54am“Let kids be kids ”
Part of being a kid is pretending to be an adult. Little girls with dolls pretending to be mommies has been going on for centuries. Pretending to feed them is also very old.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:14amI do not like the concept of this doll. I definitely think it is the parents responsibility to teach the child what they want them to know. Maybe they are just getting the kids ready since most people do not “Parent” anymore and the schools are teaching them about sex and giving them condoms, I guess they just think maybe some one else needs to teach them to breast feed. I would not have bought my child this. I don’t like to see women breast feed I certainly do not like seeing a 6 yr. old doing this, it gives me the creeps.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:22amMorning, SISSYKATZ, you forgot the college class that was giving sex demonstrations live. I’m with you – when ready to have children is plenty early enough to learn about breast feeding, or when mom is having a new brother or sister. This is creepy and hopefully no stores will purchase it – let them sell them online only.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:20amHonestly, how is this different than other dolls that come with bottles, dolls that you feed and that poop? Did you have a problem with little girls playing Mommy with THOSE?
This is perfectly natural, as is the instinct for little children to want to act like grown-ups.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:39amThey already sell baby dolls with bottles.
Deal with it.
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:33pmActually Grandmaof5, if you wait until young women HAVE babies to teach them HOW to be mothers, it will never happen.
I am a young mother; have a 3 year old daughter and a 9 month old daughter. I breastfeed my youngest and nursed my oldest until she was 15 months old. It’s NOT easy. It’s certainly not easy for the majority of my friends, most of whom did not breastfeed past 6 months. If we want our young women to nurse their children (and every study on the subject says it’s best for MOTHER AND BABY), we must support nursing in our society.
My mother nursed all of her 3 children; I pretended to nurse my baby dolls. I nurse my children, and my oldest pretends to nurse her baby dolls. It’s how we teach children to be responsible adults, by modelling appropriate, responsible, adult behavior.
Report Post »runnin.whitehorse
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:00amHell no
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:53amthis is ridiculous, and their excuse is even more ridiculous
it is the parents responsibility to teach there offspring these important facts of life, not the governments, schools, or manufacturers
if this was the way it is done, we wouldnt be having the issues we are having now.
PARENTS !!!!! THIS IS YOUR FAULT ………..ALLOWING OTHERS TO CLAIM WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
and this will only stop when you reclaim that responsibility that is yours and yours alone
until then, this cr@p will continue in the toy section of our stores, and in the education and government systems.
BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:39amShut up you idiot. They already sell baby dolls with bottles.
They already sell baby dolls with bottles.
You are hating on the entire female boob race.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:44amYour responce is what is ridiclous. Do you have the same problem with dolls with bottles? Do you think little girls aren’t pretending to be mommy when they play with dolls? Or do you think breasts are “dirty”?
Report Post »thebev
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:08amI agree with ISLESFORDIAN — I know of many families where mom has a baby and the older daughter pretend plays being mom: changing diapers, holding the baby, and feeding the baby. This is how children learn to become adults, but imitating appropriate adult behavior.
Report Post »Commonsensical
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:52amI‘m all for a doll that teaches young girls that it’s better to nurture and care for a baby that to murder it in the womb! By all means help them to pretend to be mothers, instead of self-centered, free-love baby killers!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:54amwell, THAT is one way of looking at it lol
Report Post »scguitar
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:55amI see the point behind their intent, but I can also see the outrage. I agree with the parents that are outraged. Its the parents job to talk about nuturing a child, not a company’s where they have to come out with a controversial product
Report Post »lovemysoldier
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:45amHmmm. This is as little on the creepy side initially, but I have to stop and look at it logically… breastfeeding is not “icky” or the stuff of perverts fantasies. Women all over the world breastfeed their babies in front of thier other children simply because THAT is how babies eat. Duh. Let’s bottom line it this way… If you are offended by the thought of that doll and what it represents, don’t buy it. I don’t see why something as benign as nursing a baby should be such an outrage, but hey, that’s just me :)
Report Post »Vie_En_Ras
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:12amAmen, LoveMySolder!
Looking at it from a person who believes in breast feeding only point of view, I’m sure there are those moms who get annoyed with dolls always coming with bottles. Different values. And as others have stated, don’t like it? Don’t buy it. I don‘t understand why people can’t exercise this simple process.
Report Post »Vie_En_Ras
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:14amsorry, *soldier. Finger missed the i there.
Report Post »jackinthebox
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:32amI would have to agree with you on this! My wife & I have 3 children ages 4 years to 7 months, all of which have been breastfead. Now our 4 yr old daughter will raise her shirt and nurse her dolls just like mommy. So I don’t think for one second that this is a new idea for your girls, or a bad idea. How does anyone see the makers of this doll as pedophiles? They are looking to make money, not make every girl that plays with this doll a whore!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:46amNow if they make ExtenZE for 6-yr old boys, we are all set …
Report Post »Venom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 1:48amLol
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:07amthat is CREEPY!…like everything else in America…we are letting our young girls grow up too fast…nothing is left up to the imagination anymore…this is definetly one doll I will not be getting my granddaughters.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:18amNo, kids shouldn’t be breastfeeding, they should be playing. Why not have t he home divroce kit and the you are evictied game. What happened to just playing candyland.
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:39amThere is a time and place for everything. I believe it is important to understand the concepts and lessons in life leading up to the point of breast feeding. It is not wise to imitate things in which we do not have a sufficient understanding. This is how Progressives and sheep are born.
I do not see the doll as a moral issue; it might have an unintended positive but most likely negative effect. I simply see it as foolishness and idiocy, just like the Progressives. It seems to convey the message – you don’t need to look before you leap.
Report Post »BidBerthaDotCom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:25amI call April Fool’s on this one.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 4:53amLol CHEEZWHIZ. Maybe they will come up with a doll that has the monthly curse next. This is all such BS.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:35amThis is sick…Hope it‘s an April Fool’s “joke”
Report Post »48
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:11amOh God help us. This is not even a good April fools joke.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:12amROFL @ CHEEZE and hell no on the doll. Whats next poledancer Barbie. How bout pimp daddy Ken? Or maybe the Chris Brown action doll “ask it about Rhianna and it beats you to a pulp”.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:27amWhat is creepy is the hysterical reaction of some people here. this doll is no different than any other doll. Little girls are pretending to be mommies. You are acting as if breastfeeding was some sexual knowledge they would not be old enough to know about.
Where they hell have you been living? Any child with an infant sibling could see her mother breastfeeding and would know how natural it is. There is nothing “adult” about the concept. it is not a part of sex education. Mother’s breastfeed in front of children all the time. Why would a little girl playing mommy with a doll not want to pretend to feed it NATURALLY as well? We have dolls with bottles and dolls that eat and poop.
Get your minds out of the gutter, folks, or wherever it is that makes you think breastfeeding is a sexual thing.
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:30amGee, let’s get really realistic with dolls. How about these features for “Breast MIlk Baby, 2.0″:
1) Colick Program: Doll cries and screams in agony for hours until the battery fails. Simulates a child suffering from a colicky condition and realistically doubles up. Learn to nuture a sick baby!
2) Projectile Vomiting Program: Doll projectile vomits after feeding (or whenever). – comes with floral print poncho.
3) Poop-Shooter Program: Will demonstrate how a 15 lb child can produce 30 lbs of poop in one sitting. Comes with plastic apron, gloves, goggles, and clothes pin for the nose. Optional item is “Gates of Hell” scent cartridge.
4) Pee Fountain Program (for baby boy doll): Get a wonderful spray of pee when changing your baby boy doll!
5) Ear Infection Program: Like the colick program, however the doll tugs at its ear instead of doubling over.
6) Teething Program: Experience the wonderful time of teething! Doll cries and screams until your child determines best way to soothe doll’s pain.
7) Night Time Program: Doll will activate at random hours during the early morning hours and scream and cry until it is “fed”, “changed”, or soothed. Accurately simulates a fussy baby.
Report Post »jackinthebox
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:40amSo Cheez, how does a doll that imitates a natural form of feading a baby compare to a boy of the same age looking to get a bigger member? No comparision at all if you ask me! What you are talking about, a 4 year old boy wouldn’t even understand. As for the doll, I will not buy it because my 4 year old daughter already knows how to breatfeed her dolls by watching my wife nurse our two younger sons!! It might not be for everyone, but my wife and I believe it is a very natural thing to do!
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:52amHow about a blow up doll for ten year olds…?
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:02amOh, for goodness sake. I breastfed all my dolls and none were marketed for it. Raggedy Ann, Cabbage Patch,baby alive- knock off, you name it, I nurtured it.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:28amHeard about this on talk radio about a week ago.
Report Post »The argument was that these girls need to know about womanhood.
Why? At 6 they do?
No…. they learn it in due time. It doesn’t need to be forced. How did we ever survive as a race for centuries without this type of stuff?
I have a 5 year old daughter—6 in May. She doesn’t need to know about breast feeding at her age. It’s not going to kill her to know about it, but it’s simply not necessary at this point in her life…. so why??
Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 10:46amDoes your daughter play with dolls? Does she feed them with a bottle? Was she bottle fed or breastfed? Has she ever SEEN a baby being breastfed? If she has she would naturally imitate it when playing with her dolls.
I don’t know why anyone would think this knowledge is inapproriate for little children. It’s a natural thing done before other children all the time. But our culture has gooten so crewed up by bottle feeding and Playboy magazine that we think breasts are automatically sexual. Kids know better, until we pervert them.
Report Post »mck05002
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:35amI honestly have no idea what the big deal is! My 3 year-old daughter watches my breastfeed her baby sister mutiply times a day. She knows that boobs are for feeding babies. She acts this out with her dolls now anyways! How is this going to lead to our daughters getting pregnant? Wouldn’t it be good if they could see that actual purpose God intended breasts serve, in a healthy and safe environment for them, instead of only seeing them glorified as cleavage on tv. I think that this is in no way creepy, what is creepy is 3, 4, 5, 6- year olds in bikinis and skimpy clothing….now what is that teaching our daughters about their bodies?
Report Post »Happy Killmore
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:48amThe next hit PC toy: The Daddy’s Little Crossdresser Make-Up Kit! In stores soon!
Report Post »katiefrankie
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:11pmStill laughing at the idea by 28_ID. You should market that!
I hated dolls from the start. Barbies were different – barbies could be used to narrate intelligent conversation and facilitate all kinds of plays, dramas, comedies, and travel narratives. Dolls? Useless.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:12pmmy point of view on all who think this is a natural thing…nuturing thing…for LITTLE GIRLS to imitate breast feeding…..I guess the next step is for them to get breast implants so they can really “imitate” breast feeding…or a computer game that shows “their” baby coming down the birth canal and in two to three days they get a baby doll in the mail…this rates right up there with baby beauty contest where the LITTLE GIRLS have so much makeup on and adult clothing on that they look like little street walkers…this is not normal for LITTLE GIRLS to do!….I guess I didn’t play with my dolls correctly as a little girl…it never entered my mind to have one pretend to suck on my breast…eek!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:23pmGODLOVINMOM,
Report Post »Maybe as a little girl you didn’t see women breastfeeding their children. But children who see their mother do this natural act often imitate it with their dols when they play mommy. If you think there is something unnatural about that, well, you have some therapy issues to work out I guess.
godlovinmom
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 2:46pmunnatural for LITTLE GIRLS to do…yes!
Report Post »maumau
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:13pmmy daughter already holds her baby to herself, she says “boobie”, and breast feeds her baby. its cute to watch. little girls are bred from early on that you need bottles to have a baby. i dont even have or have had any bottles in my house.
Report Post »DBeth14
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:23pmIm WIth You GODLOVINMOM, What Happened To A Childhood?? Playing Outside, Riding A Bike….Do Most Children That Age Even Understand What Is Going On???
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:01pmLike they say that people say about them – PERVERTS!
Report Post »Capitalist Mama
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 7:20pmI agree with LIBERTYLUVNMOMMA.
I remember as a child in the 80s pretending to breastfeed a baby doll. And my 3-year-old who has witnessed me nursing her younger sister, pretends to breastfeed her baby doll.
A little overpriced, perhaps. But NOTHING creepy about a young girl playing Mommy with her dolls. It’s the most natural thing in the world.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 9:29pmUh, no.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 1, 2011 at 11:21pmROFL, I swear we are coming undone at the seams. There is nothing left as a fabric to a real society. I have said this before, HOME SCHOOL your kids.
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