how to explain why mommy is veggy to 2 1/2 year old?

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone, I appreciate reading everyone's comments and learn a lot. I

am veggy and my husband isn't so I am trying to find the words to express to

my daughter as to what a vegetarian is. It's a tough concepts and most of

the books I have are really geared to older kids. What languagt have you

guys used?

 

Thanks,Karyn

[Guest guest]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Karyn wrote:

 

> Hi everyone, I appreciate reading everyone's comments and learn a lot. I

> am veggy and my husband isn't so I am trying to find the words to express to

> my daughter as to what a vegetarian is. It's a tough concepts and most of

> the books I have are really geared to older kids. What languagt have you

> guys used?

 

My 3-year-old often asks, " Why are we vegetarians? " and recently has also

been asking, " Why are some people not vegetarians? " I tell him that we

are vegetarians because we care about animals and want them to keep living

and enjoying their lives like we do, so we don't eat them. When he asks

about non-vegetarians, I tell him that some people are used to eating meat

and it's hard for them to change what they've been doing for a long time.

I try to be as neutral as possible while still being honest, since so many

of the people he cares about eat meat. He's clearly still turning these

issues over in his mind, but these answers seem to mostly satisfy him.

 

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia

 

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered

three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the

purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each

nonexisted in an entirely different way ...

-- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad "

[Guest guest]

My daughter is 4 and half and it was about a year ago

that we started to explain to her that " some " people

eat animals. It wasn't a discussion that I wanted to

have. My Church had started its annual Heiffer

Project were the kids save money to buy animals for

" needy " families in third world countries. These

could be animals that they ate like " bunnies " or

animals that they milked like " goats " a lot of the

things they discussed in Sunday School seemed to

center around how we " need " animals for food and some

people can't afford them. Thus I had to do damage

control and stress that Mommy and Daddy don't believe

that. I wanted to make sure that she knew what it

meant to be a vegetarian. That " we " she and mommy and

daddy don't eat animals because we think that is

" yucky " and its " not cool " to kill animals for food.

I think at her age it is important that she see our

being vegetarian as the right and normal choice. That

she sees other people eating animals as strange.

There will be enough of other people finding her

behaviour strange as she grows older. Right now I have

control over helping to shape her moral choices. I'm

trying to build a solid foundation to help her. Maybe

you could watch a movie like " Babe " or " Chicken Run "

and discuss that with her.

Renee

 

--- Karyn <karyn wrote:

 

>

> Hi everyone, I appreciate reading everyone's

> comments and learn a lot. I

> am veggy and my husband isn't so I am trying to find

> the words to express to

> my daughter as to what a vegetarian is. It's a

> tough concepts and most of

> the books I have are really geared to older kids.

> What languagt have you

> guys used?

>

> Thanks,Karyn

>

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