Parents evening went well.
dd doing very well etc etc.
We saw about 6 subject teachers. Couldn't get an appointment for one, but she found a spot when we were there and she saw us.
My 14 year old decided to go go vegan about 6 weeks ago. She was vegetarian prior to this. I was very sceptical, worried. I started a thread on here and it was a revelation, full of useful information about veganism and how she wouldn't wither away as a result of malnutrition. And I figured that at 14, almost 15, I couldn't force her to eat dairy. If anything, she now eats a far far better diet than she did before. She cooks regularly now too and has huge bowls of vegetables, beans, pulses, vegan pasta etc and eats a wise variety of food. Far bigger variety than when she was carnivorous! I've bought her supplements too, so I'm not worrying about her lacking anything.
Anyway, after about 3 seconds discussion about her subject, the teacher said that she'd been discussing my daughters veganism and had told her she didn't approve. Another teacher sat next to her sidled over and joined in. She said she didn't approve of the vegan diet either. For information, My daughter is an average size 8, curvy but slim and her skin has cleared up almost overnight since she went vegan. So she doesn't look unhealthy at all. The opposite, in fact.
Then, the teacher who joined in the conversation, said she'd had a discussion with my daughter about veganism on a recent school trip and that she was concerned as she also had a teenage daughter and vegan diets are very unhealthy for teenage girls and she could be affecting her fertility etc.
I felt a bit patronised.
I've done hours of research and figured she could be doing a lot worse than be vegan.
Her old diet was much worse. Pizzas and chocolate and crap. She eats more than 5 a day now!
Dd seems to think she just 'meant well' as does dh (who was always a bit anti veganism anyway!) but I feel as though it was unnecessary and inappropriate. Discussing her fertility at parents evening? With worried head tilt like they'd stumbled on her shooting up with heroin in the school toilets?
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Meechimoo · 30/11/2014 09:34
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