Some side effects of raising a vegetarian child ...

[Guest guest]

> I sat down with Rafi today to read one of my childhood favourites, Little

> House in the Big Woods. Unfortunately, I had forgotten how much of it

> revolves around the killing and preparing of meat. Of course it was

> necessary for them at that time, and it was a good opportunity for me to

> point out to Rafi how lucky we are to live in a time and place where we

can

> get all the protein we need from the supermarket. Still, it just went on,

> page after page, of killing and preparing animals, and finally he asked me

> to put it away because it was " a mean book, with too much killing " . So we

> moved on to the Magic Treehouse instead ... sigh.

>

> Be well, Hadass, Ima to Rafi, 6 y/o, Ari, 3 y/o (who peed standing up into

> the toilet today!), and little hopeful beginning, due mid-December

[Guest guest]

I just reread this book, as well as others in the series, too, and felt kind of

sick with all the talk of killing and preparing meat. When they eat the pig's

tail - well, that's just gross. Aside from the vegetarian issues, there are

also a number of places in the books where other racial/ethnic groups are

referred to in terms and ways that we no longer consider acceptable. That's

another hard thing to explain to children.

-

Hadass Eviatar

Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sunday, August 04, 2002 12:55 AM

Some side effects of raising a vegetarian child ...

 

 

> I sat down with Rafi today to read one of my childhood favourites, Little

> House in the Big Woods. Unfortunately, I had forgotten how much of it

> revolves around the killing and preparing of meat. Of course it was

> necessary for them at that time, and it was a good opportunity for me to

> point out to Rafi how lucky we are to live in a time and place where we

can

> get all the protein we need from the supermarket. Still, it just went on,

> page after page, of killing and preparing animals, and finally he asked me

> to put it away because it was " a mean book, with too much killing " . So we

> moved on to the Magic Treehouse instead ... sigh.

>

> Be well, Hadass, Ima to Rafi, 6 y/o, Ari, 3 y/o (who peed standing up into

> the toilet today!), and little hopeful beginning, due mid-December

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

i agree that it is hard to read and explain - but i beleive that as adults,

we actually take things like this alot harder and more to heart than

children. Children tend to take things more as just information and they

don't dwell too much. I also beleive that explaining difficult things is the

key to learning and raising open minded cool groovy smart kids.

I think about how i felt reading those books as a child and i was fascinated

by the different lives, i knew it was different, i knew it was olden days, i

knew i would never be like that and i also knew that that was just the way

it was. It didn't make me want to kill a pig (in fact it made me more

grossed out with meat) and it didn't make me treat peple different, it mad

me glad to live here and now and MOST OF ALL, it made me obsessed with Laura

and Mary and sunbonnets and having long hair in braids!

 

Nanette

 

Karen Detling <kdetling

 

Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:23:11 -0400

 

Re: Some side effects of raising a vegetarian child

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I just reread this book, as well as others in the series, too, and felt kind

of sick with all the talk of killing and preparing meat. When they eat the

pig's tail - well, that's just gross. Aside from the vegetarian issues,

there are also a number of places in the books where other racial/ethnic

groups are referred to in terms and ways that we no longer consider

acceptable. That's another hard thing to explain to children.

-

Hadass Eviatar

Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sunday, August 04, 2002 12:55 AM

Some side effects of raising a vegetarian child ...

 

 

> I sat down with Rafi today to read one of my childhood favourites, Little

> House in the Big Woods. Unfortunately, I had forgotten how much of it

> revolves around the killing and preparing of meat. Of course it was

> necessary for them at that time, and it was a good opportunity for me to

> point out to Rafi how lucky we are to live in a time and place where we

can

> get all the protein we need from the supermarket. Still, it just went on,

> page after page, of killing and preparing animals, and finally he asked

me

> to put it away because it was " a mean book, with too much killing " . So we

> moved on to the Magic Treehouse instead ... sigh.

>

> Be well, Hadass, Ima to Rafi, 6 y/o, Ari, 3 y/o (who peed standing up

into

> the toilet today!), and little hopeful beginning, due mid-December