Comments on: Children Gone Vegetarian! http://teenymanolo.com/2009/11/18/when-your-child-goes-vegetarian/ Celebrating the Joys of Parenting and Childhood Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Monday Teeny Poll » Teeny Manolo http://teenymanolo.com/2009/11/18/when-your-child-goes-vegetarian/comment-page-1/#comment-138455 Monday Teeny Poll » Teeny Manolo Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:26 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/?p=4803#comment-138455 [...] while ago, Teeny Manolo’s superfantastic class factotum asked a question in the comments of a post I wrote on children choosing vegetarianism.  It was so thought-provoking, I thought I would pass it along. [...] [...] while ago, Teeny Manolo’s superfantastic class factotum asked a question in the comments of a post I wrote on children choosing vegetarianism.  It was so thought-provoking, I thought I would pass it along. [...]

]]> By: class factotum http://teenymanolo.com/2009/11/18/when-your-child-goes-vegetarian/comment-page-1/#comment-136897 class factotum Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:38:00 +0000 http://teenymanolo.com/?p=4803#comment-136897 Necessary disclaimer that I am not a parent so my opinion IS IRRELEVANT but -- would you become a short-order cook to accommodate your child's new dietary preferences? I ask because we were visiting friends and at every. single. meal, the mom asked the two boys what they wanted to eat. It wasn't even that the boys had food allergies or were vegetarians. It was just that they had been conditioned not to eat what the parents did. So she made them their own meals for every single meal. Which I thought was nuts. But that's just me. So I am curious about your opinion. Because it's not like you could have a vegetarian just eat the side dishes when you have pork chops and have nutritional balance. Necessary disclaimer that I am not a parent so my opinion IS IRRELEVANT but — would you become a short-order cook to accommodate your child’s new dietary preferences?

I ask because we were visiting friends and at every. single. meal, the mom asked the two boys what they wanted to eat. It wasn’t even that the boys had food allergies or were vegetarians. It was just that they had been conditioned not to eat what the parents did. So she made them their own meals for every single meal.

Which I thought was nuts.

But that’s just me.

So I am curious about your opinion. Because it’s not like you could have a vegetarian just eat the side dishes when you have pork chops and have nutritional balance.

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