On the issue of toddler nursing being not beneficial for toddlers:

One of the many incredible things that I am learning in grad school is that
things like co-sleeping or toddler nursing have NOTHING to do with the
development of autonomy.  It only shows her ignorance to even imply such a
thing.  We know from cross cultural studies that autonomy is a function of
other issues, such a self-agency and reciprocity, the groundwork of which is
laid within every infant-maternal interaction from the moment of birth on.

Joanne McCrory
Mother of 3
Erikson Institute, Chicago

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