I think you are being very brave and should continue that. BE VEGETARIAN, becoz thats a more intelligent way of life....seel that to your kids. I am sure, they will take it. EVEn if they want to try it, they will not become meat eatersm if they have understood you.
I will make sure that my kids and anyone intelligent is a vegetarian!
The Family is multi religious or a single religion doesn't matter but we have to teach our children about GOD (The primordial cause of everything). We have to teach the children that GOD or the Supreme Power is one and only humans speak it in different forms and names.
This is my humble request to Parents who want to say about GOD or about faith in GOD to their children.
you are doing right my dear girl... dont listen to those imagined feelings of u being autocratic... we vegetarians just know .. the meat eaters are dead like the meat they eat.... some desires and impulses are too free falling ... dont let it get there
I guess parents should be allowed to make such decisions for their children, as long as you think they cant make their own decisions.I guess it is something similar to refraining them from drinking /smoking or eating the roadside food...They should not be smoking or drinking because there Dad does so or eating the roadside food because they like it.However, later when they growup they can take their own decision in this regard as they would be doing about other things..And at that time it becomes your responsibilty to accept their decision with grace.
This world needs more compassionate human beings-so many animals suffer and are tortured every day,just to appease our palates-so few people think about it,it's just so convenient not to feel.Zelda and others like us cannot bear to see this kind of cruelty-there's no way we can love animals and eat them too.Hope her daughters will remain vegetarians.
This article spoke to me personally as I am encountering the beginning of these same dynamics. In answer to the question "Should parents make decision for their children?" the answer is: Whether pertaining to diet, exercise, school, moral conduct, bedtime, extra- ciricular activites, parents always initially choose or at least colour the decisions of their children. We teach our children what we have learned in life so far and impart whatever wisdom we have obtained in our journey. This is what a parent's role is along with providing the best care for a child. The beginning of a child's life and the way that these initial lessons form the child is the responsibility of the parent the middle and end of that same child's life will combine these lessons as well as the lessons that the child has learned along their own life's path. If a parent chooses vegetarianism as an important life lesson, a value, than it is only right that this be part of the wisdom that they impart to their child. To call this dictatorial is to call monitoring television content, bedtime and curfew dictatorial aswell. These are all part and parcel to parenthood.
the mother is wrong in trying to make the children feel guilty about eating non veg.she is also showing her husband and his family in a bad light to her children by saying eating non-veg is wrong and the father & his family do not have enough sensibilites to feel like her.her saying it will break her heart if they do not continue to be veg.,is emotional blackmail.i won't be surprised if the children are eating meat behind her back due to the emotional burden she is putting on them.
there can be no right or wrong in this issue.a parent can only put forth to grownup children,the reasons for her choice and leave it to the child to decide without compelling them with guilt or emotional blackmail. bad parenting.why does the husband not step in and talk some sense into her?
