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• [1] db from nyc October 23, 2009 - 10:43AM

  ENOUGH procreation!

  Two, three, four children??? In this time of over population and environmental disaster, enough is a enough!

  
  
• [2] Nora from South Salem, NY October 23, 2009 - 10:43AM

  HATED breastfeeding! Hated it. Suffered through it with first two kids, by the third kid I said forget it, I'm done. Know what? #3 had no more colds, allergies, ear infections or developmental learning milestones than the other 2. It makes no difference. None.

  
  
• [3] SU from downtown October 23, 2009 - 10:44AM

  In the same way that work is not play, parenting is not all wonder and joy. I feel awful, especially for mothers, whose exhaustion and frustration is complicated by guilt because they may not love every second of interaction with their children.

  It is painful and hard to spend your time thinking about someone else. But what's wrong with that? It's called being the grown up. I think the important thing is to find ways to express and to believe in the value and worth of your child and your relationship with her.

  
  
• [4] Maya from Brooklyn, NY October 23, 2009 - 10:45AM

  My advice to pregnant women is to use common sense and don't read any parenting magazines. They profit off your fear and need to fill up their pages with useless neurotica.

  
  
• [5] Mary Herzog from Brooklyn October 23, 2009 - 10:46AM

  It's my guess that if parents could allow themselves to be conscious of their angry/hateful feelings that all parents have on occasion toward their kids, they would be less likely to project those feelings as threats to their children from the environment. They would be a lot less fearful as parents.

  
  
• [6] Nancy from Manhattan October 23, 2009 - 10:46AM

  What, this moving-car breast-feeding was done while the breast-feeding mother was DRIVING?! Otherwise, who cares?

  
  
• [7] Sue from North Salem, NY October 23, 2009 - 10:47AM

  Baby #1 drops pacifier: retrieve, wash with soap, drop into boiling water, give baby replacement.

  Baby #2 drops pacifier: retrieve, rinse under tap*, wipe dry on shirt, give back to baby.

  (* or spit on it)

  
  
• [8] hjs from 11211 October 23, 2009 - 10:47AM

  I guess this selfishness explains the mess our nation's children are.

  
  
• [9] Robert from NYC October 23, 2009 - 10:50AM

  I see fewer and fewer parents who I would want to be my parents today. I couldn't be happier to have not been born today!! Guess I'm getting old.

  
  
• [10] keith from inwood October 23, 2009 - 10:51AM

  I heard or read a study citing the 3 second rule as actually being much longer. This study was dropping apple slices on a college cafeteria floor for 30 seconds and allowing them to develop on a petri dish and found the bacteria growth to be negligible.

  In terms of allergies, listen to the story on radiolab about hookwork absolutely curing allergies and asthma. It's on the Parasites show.

  
  
• [11] Maya from Brooklyn, NY October 23, 2009 - 10:51AM

  I disagree HJS: the hover-parenting phenomenon explains the mess our nation's children are.

  
  
• [12] Yvonne and Yvette from Manhattan October 23, 2009 - 10:51AM

  On the subject of dirt, children and parents - why don't people realize that the soles of their children's shoes are as dirty as the soles usually are and that they don't belong on bus and train seats?

  
  
• [13] Pradeep from Cumming, GA October 23, 2009 - 10:56AM

  Yell or not to Yell:

  By not yelling at kids, we are preparing them for a something that does not exists.

  If you want you kids to be able to face "the real world", they should know how and "when" to yell.

  Do you want your kid to come back home hurt and crying coz he was able to face a bully at school or any such place !!

  You know that you can not fix the world, so make sure you teach your kids to adjust to it.

  -Pradeep

  
  
• [14] db from nyc October 23, 2009 - 10:56AM

  ... what is the carbon footprint of this yuppie self-indulgence???

  
  
• [15] Smokey from LES October 23, 2009 - 11:05AM

  A little dirt is good for all of us! It exercises the immune system for children and adults.

  
  
• [16] hjs from 11211 October 23, 2009 - 11:13AM

  Maya

  the hover-parenting phenomenon and over scheduled child are also bad. but don't over look the selfish parent (think of balloon boy and his media loving father)

  
  
• [17] hjs from 11211 October 23, 2009 - 11:16AM

  have u even been on the subway and heard the way some people talk to their kids (in public)

  if u can't respect your kids why should i?

  
  
• [18] WTF from MI October 23, 2009 - 12:58PM

  Yvonne and Yvette, are you kidding? What, are you licking the bus and train seats? I'd be less concerned about a child's shoe than some of the rear-ends I've seen parked in those spots.

  And PS - sometimes the child's shoe is touching the seat because the kid has short legs. Get over it.

  
  
• [19] Safiya October 23, 2009 - 02:26PM

  This segment is linked to the wrong audio.