Alyssa

No no no no no!!! That is so wrong! Kids shouldn’t have toys like that. We already have problems with teen pregnancy, and this type of thing just perpetuates the problem. I think this toy almost makes light of breast-feeding, like it’s something that you do for fun, but there is so much responsibility that comes with breast-feeding, like actually being pregnant, how you get pregnant, the responsibility that comes with being a mom. Maybe I’m over reacting but I think this toy just opens up a can of worms.

This kinda reminds me of the Pregnant Barbie, this was like when I was 4 or 5. It was a barbie that was pregnant and the pregnant belly was detachable for when the Barbie had the baby. I wanted one, and the daughter of the woman who babysat for me had one. But my mom was dead set against it, she didn’t think it was an age appropriate toy. Looking back I have to agree.

G

That doll is just creepy.

Arelis

Honestly, I don’t find this to be any worse than the American baby doll “baby alive”… which pees, poops and calls the little girl that’s feeding it “mommy”.

Breast feeding is a natural, yet some may choose to see it as something perverted…when it’s not!

Also to be fair, can’t all baby dolls regardless what they do or don’t do be seen as a tool to promote pregnancy/motherhood to little girls?

Another thing, where this toy is being marketed to, doesn’t have an issue with teen pregnancy like America does and they’re a lot less prude about these type of things as well! For all we know, they could see this doll as being no different than having a doll that makes the same motions and noises, but drinks out of a milk bottle?! Hmmm…

Marianne

I totally agree with Arelis. That saves me a lot of typing, so thank you! haha

ihtsgurl

indeed there is a time for everything. teaching (toddlers) girls on how to breast feed through dolls is really “dull”. yes, there is teen pregnancy, but this doesn’t teach them how to breast feed their future kids. it’s innate to mothers to know how to breast feed their kids.

Jenipher

This is definitely why I love getting all your points of views! I love opening up from my own to read all of yours!

klopez

I don’t think its something worth purchasing for young girls because it helps them grow up faster and like you said they don’t get to enjoy their childhood as much as they can.

Kendra

Gesh where to start on this topic!…there are no rules about breast feeding. Not all women “can” breast feed. Marketing to children to promote breast feeding seems silly to me. I think this can create a confusion that women MUST or SHOULD breast feed, and if they don’t its bad.

I have nothing against little girls playing with their dolls and pretending to breast feed them or bottle feed them. Girls should explore their worlds with-out being judged or told that one way is better then another.

We are natural nurturers and little girls like to pretend, there is no sense in trying to hide the world from them, the world is their playground let them play and explore.

xo

Fanfare

I don’t agree, I think treating something as natural as breast feeding as something that kills kids’ innocence is harsh. The “not until your older” mentality is what perpetuates this idea that breast feeding is sexual. It really isn’t.

Young children playing with these dolls don’t really know (or need to care) about the difference between play and actual responsibility. I don’t know anyone who seriously believed that playing house or with dolls was practice for when one was older; why should it be any different here? It’s imitating adult life the same way that playing cops and robbers does, and it’s a heck of a lot better and healthier than.

The bra with flower-nipples is a bit laughable, to be honest, but really? While I understand lambasting Tesco’s “My First Stripper Pole” (google it, try not to gag), and that seeing small children breastfeed is awkward, I don’t think it’s any bigger of a deal than kids at play. I’m sure they understand that babies breastfeed to be fed. That’s VERY different from children who imitate more sexual things without understanding what it means.

Browneyes025

I usually don’t watch Alexa Chung but stopped on her show while flipping through the channels one day. I’ll watch her if nothing better is on. I happened to watch this episode with the breast-feeding doll. I see nothing wrong with little girls wanting to pretend they are breast-feeding theirs dolls. Breast-feeding is a normal beautiful thing. I do how ever find this doll a bit creepy. It even makes sucking noises. I really can’t picture this doll on the shelf at Toys R Us or at the park and hearing a sucking nose turning around only to see a little girl playing with it. Girls don’t need a special doll to pretend.

Jenipher

You know? I got a whole new perspective out of this. While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with breast-feeding as it is a completely natural thing to do; I don’t think there should be a specific doll for it because as many of you have indicated, the doll is just creepy. LOL

Gotta love discussions right?

DaynaZoe

i don’t think that there’s anything wrong with breast-feeding. thats something natural in women, to feed their children. but in my opinion i Don’t like the idea of teaching a daughter to breast-feed a baby. i mean, that something that she will learn when she give birth to their own children, so why i will teach something that does not have to be Teach because is completely natural and innate in woman? i’m realizing and for some people i can be exaggerating, but what about if someday some crazy person decide to create or invent a type of doll or game for children that show how to have sexual relations or how to get pregnant? what would people think? that there’s nothing wrong with it because that something natural? come on, is obvious that those things are natural for a human being but that doesn’t mean that kids should be teach with explicit toys or games.

we pass trough different phases, so there is some specific times to learn what we have to learn. there are some very important things and topics that should be talk to children to teach them, thats fine and completely normal, but Teaching a child using these kind of toys is not right. a child can understand what you are teaching them without the necessity of using that stuff.

and like i said before this is just my Opinion.