Re: Speaking of liability/attractive nuisances.

Once again, Becky, no one tells a story like you. Happy birthday!

My sister nursed my niece until she was about 4. This is a personal
decision and one in which I did not intrude. However, she was
certainly more circumspect and much more in control of her child than
your SIL seems to be.

My niece is now 13 and a delightful teenager, if there is such a
thing. She's coming to visit me in a couple of weeks and I'm looking
forward to it. I plan to take her to Berkeley -- ostensibly so she
can shop on Telegraph Avenue but also so I can introduce her to the
campus. She has her sights set on going to a University of California
campus, and she has the grades and extracurricular volunteer activity
to do it, so I'm hoping she'll fall in love with the campus as I did
when I first went there (as a high schooler visiting older friends) in
the late 1960s.

Margie

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:19:43 -0500, Blupencl
<Blupencl.2a2ssk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


My family got together at my brother's cabin on the Little Red River on
Sunday - well they all went over on Saturday but I stayed home till
Sunday and it was MY birthday party. I have a SIL who is still nursing
her malnourished 3-year-old and now she calls herself "a public service
announcement for breast feeding" and does it whenever and wherever she
wants to. Her total lack of manners disturbs me enough that I don't
like to spend time with her. The "baby" is like a wild dingo. He does
as he pleases - part of the time over the weekend, that consisted of
his somehow getting a woody going and walking around with his _____ in
his hand. SIL thinks that is all so cute. It turns my stomach that
she's not teaching him any socially acceptable behavior. He doesn't
really speak (I'm pretty sure it is from the malnutrition he's suffered
all his life) and just goes all over. Fell off a dock in Maine and went
underwater TWICE a year or so ago. She thought it was cute or
something. I do so want to love her, and she's not doing all this
deliberately (they love this child *so passionately*). She's doing it
because she *doesn't care what anybody thinks, including my parents. *

Before I get too far off the deep end with her, which I tend to do, the
major issue over the weekend, which kept somebody from killing her in
her sleep, was the trampoline. This cabin is sort of in a neighborhood.
There are children. The trampoline is kept netted, locked, and with a NO
TRESPASSING sign on it. The neighbor kids have torn the netting and
ruined the trampoline, because they're on it all week.

My nieces are 20, 17, and 13. They don't give a hoot about that cabin,
the trampoline, or anything else up there. But they had little
stingy-fits because the kids wanted to jump on it. They are so selfish!
They showed out so horribly over sharing this toy that I wanted to go
home!

But the breast-feeding sister-in-law did what nobody else had managed
to do. She let the kid jump on the trampoline with the bigger neighbor
kid. They bonked heads. My nephew ran to her for comfort, which of
course meant that she tucked the tail of her t-shirt under her chin and
put this 3-year-old to her breast.

This hilarious 8-year-old fell over in a mock faint, jumped down off
the trampoline screaming, "My eyes! I'm blind!" and ran home. LOL.

.

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