*sigh* Advice

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Hi, Mia

 

My son started Vegetarian by his own choice from 10 years old, now he is 15

1/2. He prepared to return to eat meat many times. I was so hurt when he

was facing meat. So I know how your feeling is.

 

Since my son doesn't believe that meat is not healthy, my way to keep him

Vegetarian is :

1. I meditate sincerely and pray to God to protect him.

2. Tell him logically why we keep vegetarian. (His dad keeps vegetarian 10

days out off a month)

3. Proof my cooking skill.

4. Go to School to find as much as possible veggie food for him. Explain as

much as I can to his friends or other people who are meat eater around my

son: we are vegetarian, please provide veggie food if convenient and also

bring some veggie food to them.

 

If all of my effort do not work, I will let him go to eat. It is his

choice. Fortunately he is still keeping Vegetarian now.

 

Most kids think meat piece is same as cookie. If they know meat is so

related with living animal, most kids will not eat meat. If your son

agrees, you can visit animal farm with him to let him see how lovely animal

is or how suffering the animal is in order to be killed for feeding people

actually .

 

I hope my English will make sense to you.

 

Sherrie

 

 

 

> My son has started eating meat at school and I'm not sure how to

> handle this. It started with turkey, which I didn't really LOVE the

> idea of ... but I didn't want to make a huge deal out of it until I

> had thought the situation through.

>

> And then he started eating hot dogs. He loves them. He knows not to

> ask for them at home, but he talks about eating them at school and

> how yummy they taste.

>

> I don't want to forbid him from eating anything, because ultimately I

> feel it is his choice. But I don't want to encourage him to eat meat

> by NOT saying anything either KWIM? How do you handle this?? I

> prefer he doesn't eat meat, and I want him to know WHY I prefer

> that ... but I don't want to scare him or coerce him into eating MY

> way. If that makes any sense.

>

> I bought some veggie dogs but he hated them. I'm going to try

> another brand and hope they taste better. But short of that, do you

> have any advice or experiences I can draw upon? Is the best course

> of action to let him eat as he pleases at school, but maintain a meat-

> free home?? Or ... do I insist on making him a lunch from home every

> day??

>

> I guess I'm most worried that anything I do will push him farther

> into meat-eating ... whether I ignore he is doing it and that

> encourages him to venture into eating MORE meat, or I make a huge

> stink out of it and he becomes a closet meat-eater. This was never

> an issue in my house growing up, I'm completely lost here.

>

> Mia