this is for all you vegi moms and dads! how do you manage? when they are babies it's easy cause they eat what you give them... but what about when they get older and see other kids eating hotdogs, ice cream, cheetos, sugar filled candies and all those unhealthy things children seem to love so much? I'm vegan and my husband is vegetarian, so our kid will most likely be vegetarian cause dady will be drinking milk and eating cheese. but thats ok i understand and respect that... but what do i do when he wants some yuky chicken nuggets his friend is eating!!! now i think ok he will understand that it's a dead animal and animals are friends and all that... but he might not know the diference if i'm not with him. this worries me, i dont want him to get sick because he ate something he shouldnt. i dont know any vegi parents so i need some advice on how to deal. i want him/her to have some freedom to decide what he wants to eat, and have his own opinion on animal rights and so forth... but not as a child.
well, you cannot control everything they do, so you certainly cannot control what they eat at school, or out with friends. That baked good at the homeschool meeting might have egg, the pie, lard. the fruit sauce, gelatin. as for "he'll know it's a dead animal", do you REALLY think omnis don't know this? what will matter is if she cares. that can be in waves. My son was veg for three years. I split from his dad, dad was omni (and that was kind: what do you call a burger and soda diet aside from junk?) so dad's house was omni mine was veggie. dining out, we shared meals up to about to years ago, so those meals were veggie. Now he can pay for his own fast food at 14, so he gets an occasional burger. He's interested in veg as a cooking style, not limitations. I honor that because if he does go into coking, he will make veggies happy! However SuperSize me at 13 is a great idea! he'll never eat that grade of fast food again. Sadly, he will eat more "upscale quick food."
Tobacco, Sex, Drugs, Video Games, the Republican Party, Meat, ..... Thank you for taking the effort to raise a child.
Well, I am 19 and haven't raised my OWN child yet....but this is how i figure........At home, regardless of who is veggie or not, there will be no meat in my home. PERIOD. Now if my wife and kids dont want to be veggie, that is their choice, but at home there will be no meat. Also, I do not know how sick a vegetarian child would get if he ate meat one day at school after say 4 or 5 years of never having it before, but assuming that it would not make them hurt too bad I would jsut say dont worry abou tit...if he/she gets a little sick they probably wont want to eat meat again.......But if it would hurt the child then I would say jsut talk to the teacher about it...at that young of an age the children are watched fairly close in school. That is jsut my take on it though, I havent thought too in depth about it yet.
here, Tokyo Joes (which I love as they have a Boulder Bowl: brown rice, tofu and veggies pick yer sauce), GuntherTody's (50s diner..kid likes burgers on occasion. Their fries pass muster) lots of sandwich shops, incl Subway.
actually if a child is raised completely vegetarian, isn't it true that they don't have the enzymes to digest meat? the reason i ask is that a woman who shops in my store has raised her son mostly vegan, and he never ate meat in his life, then when she went to her family's thanksgiving, they kept badgering her to give him meat, so she gave in to get them to shut up, and he had the shits for like 3 days...i personally would have been much stronger and told my family to shove it up their arse and not fed my kid the turkey...anyway, if you go a long time without eating meat, then you eat some, it usually does make you sick to your stomach.
That's the best line I've seen in a post in ages! But on the topic, I've a mate who was brought up vegetarian and she doesn't give a shit about animals, but she can't eat meat because it makes her sick, so that's the only reason she's still veg. Personally I think mostly if you bring up a kid as a vegetarian even if they rebel for a year or two long term they will realise it was healthier if nothing else because after years of a veg diet and then eating meaty and processed shite you'll start to feel like shit aswell.
I was raised vegetarian but didn't have problems when I did eat meat. I no longer include dead animals in my diet.
I grew up with a vegetarian mother and a meat eating father. No meat was allowed in the house. I grew up respecting all animals, but I had the choice to eat meat or not. I don't know if I actually could if I wanted to-if I could digest it- but I don't want to. Even my sister who isn't a huge animal lover(she likes them if they're well behaved..) is still vegetarian at age 25, after being raised with a vegetarian mom. Make sure you talk to teachers/parents if your kid leaves the house..sometimes they don't consider fish meat and stuff like that. I also don't eat eggs or gelatin, and people don't seem to understand that, or don't care, so my mom just told them I had an allergy, and then people are VERY cautious.
