Dealing with vegetarianisim & teenage children

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When I became a vegetarian in 1976 my younger son was

4 and my older son was 15. The way I managed the

transition was this way:

 

1. The four year old got what I ate--vegetarian. I

was still eating tiny amounts of fish and chicken

then, but most of my protein came from legumes and

grains.

2. The fifteen year old also got what I ate, but I

did offer to buy and let him cook his own meat. I did

teach him how to cook the stuff. The positive part of

this was both that he learned to cook and that most of

the time he did not want to. So he mostly ate

vegetarian because that was what was available.

 

Both of my children are adults and they know that the

best diet for them is vegetarian, but neither of them

is a practicing vegetarian. When they get sick or

need to lose weight, they always return to their

vegetarian " roots " .

 

Good for you for trying to raise your children

vegetarian. We can only change the world one person

at a time.

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

[where is is cool and foggy]

 

 

>

> We have twin girls that arrived in February. We are

> planning on raising them as veggies, also. My

> husband has a son from his first marriage, Brandan

> (13) who is moving in with us next week. He is not

> a big veggie eater, so I am prepared to buy him some

> meat. However, I do plan on trying to sneak in some

> tofu and some veggie burger crumble. Troy agrees.

> What Brandan doesn't know about the switches is

> fine. Less special stuff I'll have to make for him.

>

 

 

Kathleen M. Pelley