Mouth-To-Mouth Feeding? Mom Talk
Pre-chewing our kids' food is for the birds.
We are not birds. So when I saw actress Alicia Silverstone feeding her toddler son like one, I couldn't relate. Silverstone has come under fire for posting a video on YouTube doing just that. The practice is called premastication or pre-chewing. She chews her son's food and feeds it to him from her mouth to his. Yuck. I can't imagine a situation where I would do that. Like Silverstone, I come under fire for how I feed my children. I had so many people, relatives included, who fought me for still nursing after two months. I've been publicly dressed down for not letting my toddler eat cake when he wouldn't eat his dinner first. Premastication is different, however. Apparently, pre-Gerber mothers have been pre-chewing for centuries during the…
neveryoumind
10:50 am on Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sentinel: I never said it was the ONLY way of bonding with a child, I said it was ANOTHER way. Of course there are other ways of bonding, that's doesn't mean pre-chewing is any less legit. My response to this article was about debunking the idea of a kitchen gadget being as beneficial, or as good, as pre-chewing. My response was also about how many of our society's family practices could '… more ›