woman was trying to force dd to eat a hamwidge

[rosepettel]

yesterday i got told by dd that her mate mum was trying to force her to eat a hamwidge even thou we are veges.. dd got very upset and distressed.. im going to ring the woman and go nuts but what can i say..why would she do this she knows we are veges..im so angry at the min what would you do? woman was saying just eat it i wont tell youre mum but dd was saying no i dont want it and was crying i am so angry.. what will i do please help?

[cory]

I would be fuming that she was trying to get the child to eat meat that has been out since May.

[nicename]

I had a quornwidge and tomatowidge for lunch. It was yumwidge.

I remember this thread first time around, and it was very funny then.

[Mojavewonderer]

I would be angry about the fact she was encouraging your child to lie!

[Mouthfulofquiz]

I also missed that this thread is a million years old!
Sorrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

[Mouthfulofquiz]

Hamwidge????
Just because my kid calls bananas 'nana-nanaa' doesn't mean I'm going to call it that. I'm 32!
Is everyone else out there calling a ham sandwich a hamwidge these days and I've missed the memo??
Sorry - I haven't read all the posts on this though - well over 500....
I do think its very unreasonable to try and get a vegetarian child to eat meat and also to make them feel uneasy on purpose. That is mean.

[Heartbrokenmum73]

I'm just loving that there are people giving fresh advice on this thread now!

ZOOOOOOMBIIIIIEEEEE THREEEEEEAAAAADDDDDD people!!!

[justmuddlingalongsomehow]

Ah yes I did Baroness - I told her that her comment was vile!! That's it!

[BaronessBomburst]

Did you quote LordPalmerston? That did deserve deleting and then they'd have to delete you too.

[SugarHut]

I'm trying (and failing) to understand how someone couldn't see ham as meat.

I have no idea why this sentence has literally made me spit my tea on my keyboard and roar with laughter, but it has!

[LadyBeagleEyes]

I dunno justmuddling, what did you say?
Why was this thread brought back just so they could make a sarky remark?
Most odd.

[justmuddlingalongsomehow]

Why was I deleted?!?!

[festered]

I wouldn't go nuts, it reinforces the belief that vegetarians are militant and crazy (which she may or may not already have)!

I would call her and have a chat about something else, say 'Thanks for having DD last night was everything okay?She was a bit upset when she got back?'
See what she says. If she doesn't mention the incident say 'She said you tried to make her eat meat, is that true, did you forget she was a vegetarian, perhaps that's why she was upset?'

[IBelieveInAngles]

Oooookaaaay.

[Finola1step]

Zombie on the loose!

[Bowlersarm]

I liked this thread the first time round.

Once is enough though.

[SoleSorceress]

I would ask the other Mom what actually occurred. Ask her why launch into a tirade of abuse. Your Daughter might be exaggerrating.i

[Troubledtimes]

Thank you thank you Thank you for reviving this thread. I'm in my sickbed and been snorting with laughter (smil) thenx

[BaronessBomburst]

I smelt a rat zombie when I saw that TSC had posted!

[Glittertwins]

oh the irony of being told to get a life by someone trawling zombie threads

[Spirulina]

We need alerts to zombie threads! I have just read the whole thing and then realised....

[weneedtotalkaboutkettles]

I've never understood the "let them make their own decisions" brigade. If you feel that something is wrong for health or for ethical reasons, wrong enough that you don't indulge in it yourself, then you don't let your child have it.

And I KNOW it is a zombie thread, but it's a point of view I have never understood.

[justmuddlingalongsomehow]

Tbh it's the "we won't tell Mummy" thing that worries me most - coercing and trying to force a 4 year old to do something and then collude in trying to keep it a secret is very disturbing to me.

Call or email when you are calm and then steer clear. I can't imagine your dd being very happy to go back there anyway.

[Retroformica]

The other thing to consider is that your child will be offered meat products throughout her life (this was just the first time!) and if she wants to be a veggie she will decide to say no to the meat offering. Are you going to have a huge paddy every time she is offered meat?