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Alicia Silverstone has come up with a whole new method of feeding her 11-month-old baby son, Bear Blu. The ‘Clueless’ star posted a video of herself feeding her son like a bird on her popular health food website, The Kind Life. The actress takes a spoonful of food, chews it and passes it open-mouthed to her son.
On her website, Alicia wrote: “I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup…from my mouth to his. It’s his favorite…and mine. He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating. This video was taken about a month or 2 ago when he was a bit wobbly. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food!”
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This isn't something I'd do with my son. I can't imagine a situation where I wouldn't have a fork or some other utensil handy to mash a bit of food for him.
The video looks like a sweet moment between a mother and son but why why why would she publish it on the internet for the world to see? Anyone would know that a video like this from someone with fame would get all kinds of negative attention so why not post some OTHER sweet moment that isn't going to attract ridicule? Or, better, keep these special moments sacred between mother and child (and family) - is there really a need for the entire world to see it?
It truly baffles me that the vast majority of comments here are focusing on the germ factor as the reason why this practice is possibly harmful, rather than the possible psychological implications for the child.
If she feels the need to chew for him, why not then spit it out and feed it to him from a bowl? Is there really a need to deliver the food mouth to mouth? If it's not a culturally accepted practice, the kid will prob gonna grow up with vague early memories of something quite odd happening here.