Patty watching my little daughter
Me and my boyfriend, we’ve decided not to feed our daughter with meat. We’re both vegetarian and we believe this diet is best and can be applied to little children. There are certain specialists who claim that a well-balanced lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet isn’t harmful even for a toddle. But in our meat-loving country it’s almost a heresy. Except for my boyfriend, I don’t know personally no one who would really cheer us in our decision. When they say “I don’t stand for it, but it is your child, do as you wish” – it’s good!
My “mother-in-law” is the greatest warrior. She tries to feed our child with meat when we can’t see. She thinks that a child will become an invalid if it doesn’t eat meat so she told us to sign a statement that we won’t want any money from her if our daughter is in hospital because of vegetarianism.
It’s so hard to be a vegetarian here, and when there comes a child – it’s a real horror! But we won’t give up.
BTW, our country is also very religuous (religulous;)), like when you say something wrong about (nearly any) religion it’s an offence against religuous feelings. So I thought that we could tell everyone that our vegetarinism comes from our religion, buddhism or whatever (though we’re both atheists) and we can raise our child that way like the others baptize and indoctrinate them. What do you think?:)
