To think that these parents are a bit mad?

[Mummy2Bookie]

I know a family who have 3 dc's. All the children have strange embarrassing names, including one name that is a favourite for pet cats!
The children are not vaccinated and are very strict vegetarians. No meat, no fish no gelatine. But it doesn't end there. They are Also not allowed any raisins, sweets, chocolate etc basically anything with sugar.
I once saw ds1 hiding in a corner eating a jelly baby at nursery. Their ds1 also will not eat veg, so he is basically a vegetarian who will not eat veg and so eats nothing really. His parents will not alter his diet.
The youngest ds has seizures that the doc says he will grow out of. Doc says it may be a nutrition deficiency, but mum and dad will not alter his diet either. Ds1 has speech difficulties, but mum and dad are not worried.
At nursery ds1 and ds2 cannot have yogurt with the other children, only melon and apple.
Ds1 has told me that mum eats crisps and dad eats chocolate but the dc's have none.
It's none of my business but am I being unreadable to think this is a bit mad?

And actually, it depends what doctor told them this about the seizures. My GP is pretty clueless about raising children as vegetarians. He's misquoted so much stuff at me that with regards to nutrition I don't really listen to him anymore.

And the no yogurt thing may be due to the sugar rather then them actually being Vegans.

I'd be interested to hear where you got the information in your OP - all sounds a bit 'school ground gossipy' to me....

Don't all vegetarians not eat meat, fish or gelatine?

The name thing is abit mean and so is gratuitously slagging off vegetarians. But I did some nannying as a student for a family abit like this the children were not allowed any sugar at all and had one of those diets that was healty to the point of being inedible. They were very sickly children. They are adults now and one is a drug dealer I wonder if the early deprivation of jellybabies can actually have quite sinister effects.

no one calls their cat cnut!!

A lot of yogurts contain gelatine so vegetarians might avoid them for perfectly non-sinister reasons.

If it's none of your business perhaps you should leave them to it instead of writing about them on a public forum

CakeCuresAll I was thinking this too. I know m,y friend has got some pretty crap advice from GPS about diet. A lot of them don't have a clue about vegetarianism. My own son aould never drink formula or cows milk once I weaned him at 13 months. I just made sure he got dairy through other means ie yogurts, cheese, milk in brekkie etc. My GP told me my son should be drinking milk that it was dangerous not to and they NEED it.

Blue Fergie - they can be a bit clueless. I have undoubtedly spent more time researching a safe diet for my dc then the gp.

My son never drinks cows milk either. He's perfectly healthy. Many cultures have very little or no dairy in their diets and live perfectly healthy lives.

Dairy is certainly not the 'healthy' food it is made out to be in current guidlines. There are much better ways to consume calcium and essential fats tbh.

This thread says far more about the OP than it does the parents the OP describes.

My children are "very strict" vegetarians (is there any other kind ?). They haven't ever had any vaccinations either. And I'm buggered if I would alter their diet and provide them with dead animals if they refused to eat vegetables.

On the plus side, neither is called Tiddles. :o

I'll come back to this thread when I've put Sooty and Snowy to bed.

Well, it probably isn't any of your business and I imagine you exaggerate somewhat.....but if all is as you say then they are a bit misguided I think......

AIBU to think the OP is a. narrow minded and b. ill informed?

OP, in case the other comments on this point haven't yet penetrated your skull, vegetarianism IS no meat, no fish. Gelatine is an animal product so of course vegetarians don't eat it! (It's made from skin and bones. Yum.)

What on earth did you think vegetarianism was?

Fortunately I have managed to find a veggie source of jelly babies for my DS, so he will not be too deprived.

I know a family who have 3 dc's. All the children have strange embarrassing names, including one name that is a favourite for pet cats! STOP THE BUS - NAMES NOT TO OP'S TASTE SHOCKER
The children are not vaccinated and are very strict vegetarians. No meat, no fish no gelatine. NO SHIT, SHERLOCK
But it doesn't end there. They are Also not allowed any raisins, sweets, chocolate etc basically anything with sugar. LOTS OF FAMILIES PREFER TO LIMIT SUGAR INTAKE FOR DENTAL REASONS, FANCY THAT !
I once saw ds1 hiding in a corner eating a jelly baby at nursery. Their ds1 also will not eat veg, so he is basically a vegetarian who will not eat veg and so eats nothing really. His parents will not alter his diet. ANY CHILD NOT EATING VEG WOULD BE A WORRY
The youngest ds has seizures that the doc says he will grow out of. Doc says it may be a nutrition deficiency, but mum and dad will not alter his diet either. AND YOU KNOW THIS HOW?
Ds1 has speech difficulties, but mum and dad are not worried. A LOT OF SPEECH ISSUES RESOLVE SPONTANEOUSLY
At nursery ds1 and ds2 cannot have yogurt with the other children, only melon and apple. OH HOW PERFECTLY DREADFUL
Ds1 has told me that mum eats crisps and dad eats chocolate but the dc's have none. INCREDIBLE - I'LL BET NO-ONE ELSE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD DOES THIS
It's none of my business but am I being unreadable to think this is a bit mad?
YES YOU ARE INDEED UNREADABLE

Most of it fine - draw the line at Tiddles though.

We knew a family like this when i was growing up in Canada and the parents used to sit puffing away on pot all day (i didn't know it was pot at the time when we used to go on playdates)

to each his own i guess i am sure the children survived they were all very thin but healthy enough

its nobody's business really so long as they haven't got nits continually, unexplained bruises or talk/behave in an overtly sexual manner

is the kid called p*ssy?

cripes! that is bad!

I once met a cat called MINGE

YANBU. I think if parents want to be veggies that's fine but I don't agree with children being put on a veggie diet. All the vegetarians I know have to take supplements to attain a healthy diet. That suggests to me that a purely vegetarian diet therefore does not supply all the nutrients needed & I don't think getting nutrients synthetically can really be as good as through natural means. I get very at parents who say their dc's CHOSE to be veggie. Younger children especially are not knowledgeable or mature enough to make an informed decision on it.

Yes, all vegetarians have to take supplements

blimey I clicked on this hoping for a much better mad parent story than a dodgy name and vegetarianism. if this lot are mad then op you must find the world packed with complete and utter lunatics. I'm not sure if that makes for an interesting life or a scary one.

Oh come off it didgeridoo.
What do the millions of people in India who follow vegetarian diets do with their children then? I don't claim my DS chooses to be veggie, any more than he chooses to eat green things or go to bed at 7. I make moral/health etc choices for him until he's old enough to do it for himself. He won't be disowned if he eats meat.

I eat meat and have to take suppliments - what does that make me? Am I a failed meat eater?

I'm surprised you'd take the word of their nursery aged child as gospel. You seem pretty mad yourself.