On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Judy Ritchie wrote:

> My daughter and I visited her good friend who just moved, so we spent
> most of the day having lunch and visiting.  This friend breastfeeds her
> 17 month old boy and homeschools her 9 year old.  She told us the older
> one was baffled in 1st grade at school when a test question asked "where
> does milk come from?" and there were 4 picture choices to figure out
> which answer belonged to the question.  He simply could not answer the
> question.  He came home and said the test was wrong "there was no
> picture for breasts."  As he does not ever drink cow milk, he could not
> relate to the cow picture as having any relevancy.

That reminds me of an exchange I actually have on my website.  It was my
friend's daughter Cara and her friend.  Cara was breastfed and so were her
two younger siblings, and Mom is a LLL leader.  Anyway... her friend said
to her one day, "My mom used to nurse us in PUBLIC!"  Cara, not missing a
beat, replied, "So what? I eat in public all the time..."  ;)

Cee

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