Helpful lists for vegetarian and vegan parents

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I could find twelve (12) e-mail lists for vegetarian families

Feel free to join one or all twelve of them.

Ten of them can be joined at one location.

If you know of others, please let us know ASAP.

 

KidsHealth (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VegeFamily (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

Veg-Parent

VeganChildren (AT) eGroups (DOT) com

VegKids

1VeggieKids (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VeganParents (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VeggieMums (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VegetarianParenting (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VegetarianParents (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

VeGhomeschoolers (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

Hindu_Family (AT) ONElist (DOT) com

 

All the ONElist lists can be joined

through the ONElist website at

www.ONElist.com

 

The Veg-Parent list can be joined

by sending your request to list

and specifically MENTIONING the Veg-Parent list.

 

It is best to compare notes with others in

family situations that parallel your own home,

and the lists work far, far better when parents of

all ages, and with children of many different ages,

are on the lists. We learn well by comparing

situations, even if they are not exactly parallel,

abstracting, then developing a broad sense

of " how things work " .

 

So please consider staying on the lists

until your children are fully grown so that

you can share with others with younger

children and less parenting experience

than you have, and also can share with

them - in advance of their needs -

your observations, issues, and questions

from your pre-adolescent and teenage

daughters and sons.

 

Remember, birthing and nursing are not

the only parenting issues that require

special attention from parents.

 

I believe that one of the MOST fundamental

reasons that teenage vegetarians have issues

is that, if their parents WERE vegetarians,

they don't " compare notes " .widely with other

vegetarian families in their own region, as well

as having direct e-mail access with them,

and providing a community supportive of

their being vegetarian FOR those vegetarian

young people. This translates into

vegetarian young people (1) who don't understand

vegetarianism or their own being vegetarian

very deeply and broadly, and (2) who lack the

deeper social relationships with more than a

handful of other vegetarian young people to

more securely discover their responsible, healthy

place in the world as vegetarians of whatever variety,

and (3) who therefore lack a meaningful sense

of the many creative and meaningful ways that

they can develop or innovative useful, productive,

lucrative, rewarding, and beneficent ways of

becoming mature vegetarian adults in this

economic and social world, as they begin to

see the need to develop professions and careers.

 

I also believe that vegetarian young people are

" like other young people " in most regards,

but that comparing notes on BEING vegetarian

is especially helpful.

 

You didn't mention where you live (city or state),

so I cannot advise you particularly.

 

HOWEVER, I suggest that you join the NAVS,

the North American Vegetarian Society.

Please visit the NAVS website at www.navs-online.org

and contact them at 518-568-7970 or

 

Brian and Sharon Graff

North American Vegetarian Society.

P. O. Box 72

Dolgeville, NY 13329

518-568-7970

NAVS

 

and join the local vegetarian announcement and

discussion list near you through the

RegionalVeg Network at http://waste.org/regveg/

If there is NO RegionalVeg list near you,

contact the Vegetarian Resource Center

at info or list

and ask for a discussion list in your state.

If the RegionalVeg Network has no list in your

area, then the Vegetarian Resource Center

will have a supplementary list for your area.

 

Maynard S. Clark

Executive Director

Vegetarian Resource Center

617-625-3790