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Parenting

Vegan children, meaty world: dealing with overlap

March 3, 2010

This week’s question to the Council of Vegan Parents actually spanned two weeks of puzzles! While we’ve got over 30 parents on the Council now, some problems are still common enough that it’s hard to find examples of problems and solutions that worked.
(And of course, that’s a cue for another call for volunteers!)
Council member [...]

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Veganizing children’s songs

February 23, 2010

This week on SpawnBetter we thought we’d lighten things up a bit and maybe sing a song or two. But what songs? If you’re singing with kids, it just takes one stray reference to Old MacDonald and you could be hit with a ton of questions about what those farm animals are doing [...]

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Vegan omega-3 sources for children

February 16, 2010

For this week’s question, we’ve got an email from SB reader Jessica: “I’m curious whether you have advice on omega-3 sources for a 4-year-old? It’s been hard to find the vegan chewables that we had been buying, and my child is resistant to drinking smoothies daily, so flax oil does not appear to be [...]

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How to start (or find) vegan parenting groups

February 9, 2010

OK, Spawn Better is an awesome vegan parenting resource, and we’ve heard some good things about the internet in general (it got a lot better once they put it on computers, I think,) but what about good old fashioned, face to face meetings with other vegan parents?
Do vegan parenting groups exist? How do you find [...]

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How to handle Anti-Population people

February 2, 2010

This week’s question came from a member of the Council: what do you do when you’re confronted by people who feel that the mere act of having children is wrong? That might sound a little weird, but there is a subset out there who believes there are more than enough people on the planet, [...]

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Dealing with mass media farming propaganda

January 21, 2010

This week at SpawnBetter, we tackle a question from reader Melanie, who’s getting a little tired of the way farming is represented on children’s programming.
“In between the cartoons they show on nickjr they have little bits they play instead of commercials, mostly little songs or games. However, when watching with my son the other [...]

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Weaning from breastfeeding – when and how?

January 14, 2010

In part two on this week’s series on breastfeeding (see part one here,) we asked our Council of Vegan Parents a simple question: for how long did you nurse your children?
The answers were pretty evenly split – and surprising.
About half of our respondents were in the six months to a year phase. The other half? [...]

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Breastfeeding: is your child what YOU eat?

January 12, 2010

This week we’re taking a look at breastfeeding – if you are what you eat, is it the same for your child?
Part one of our series was inspired by our friend Laura, whose baby seems to have developed some kind of soy sensitivity, and it seems to be coming from breast milk after Laura eats [...]

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Dealing with non-vegan family members

January 4, 2010

For this week’s question, I asked our Council of Vegan Parents about food issues between their children and the rest of the family:
“Have relatives criticized you (openly or behind you back) for raising your child vegan?  Was there concern for your child’s health?  Did anyone try to sneak meat into the diet without you knowing?  [...]

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Vegan birthday parties: be ready to negotiate!

December 23, 2009

True story: as I’ve been writing up these posts about vegan birthday parties I’ve been humming “who likes to rock the vegan birthday party? I like to rock the vegan birthday party!” in an homage to Flight of the Conchords. Anyway.
In today’s installment, Katrina sends her thoughts:
“In the classroom, we have an agreement with [...]

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