For a mother, providing a comfortable and loving environment for a child will be the most important job she ever does. She will go to great lengths to feed and wash and nurture her child. Motherhood is overwhelming, but a new form of attachment parenting promises relief. Extreme breastfeeding, or breastfeeding a child past the average weaning age into their schooling years, is a troubling phenomenon. The mothers and children involved are blind to the negative repercussions that accompany this act. They are unaware that while attempting to strengthen bonds and nurture their child, they are actually delaying development and denying the child the right to their own personhood.