The village needs to mind it's own damn business!

Matt Walsh wrote about breastfeeding. He got lots of responses from moms who breastfeed and moms who don't. Matt wishes people would not be so judgmental of parents.

It’s hard enough being a parent nowadays. Arguably, it’s harder now than it’s ever been. Parents have never had more competition. Never. Every time your kid goes outside, turns on the TV, goes on the Internet, goes to school, he is immediately bombarded with a thousand nefarious forces trying to pull his heart and mind in a thousand different directions. Buy this! Do this! Wear this! Eat this! Try this! Say this! Listen to this! Believe this! Think this! Be this! Become this! It’s relentless. Yeah, I’m sure it wasn’t a breeze raising kids on the old frontier, but at least you knew that YOU would be the one raising them. Sure, you’ll all probably die of cholera next week, but until then you’ll be a unit. Together. A family. Now, the entire deck is stacked against the family. There are powerful agents out there that want nothing more than to drive a wedge between you and your child, and many times they are successful.

This is the landscape. It’s hazardous, dangerous and difficult. And how do we react? By cannibalizing each other. Instead of looking with love at a mother out with her child and thinking “God bless this woman and her son,” we become filled with spite and anger and think “Screw this awful degenerate, she makes parenting decisions that are different from my own! I hope she dies!”

It takes a village to raise your child? No. It takes you to raise your child. The village needs to mind it’s own damned business. As for whose “side” I’m on: I’m on the side of moms who love their kids and are doing what they need to do to care for them. Period. I’m rarely a pragmatist about anything, but when it comes to parenting I don’t get into the business of telling other people how to do it.