Vegetarians
posted in fathers |Mark Dominus has some interesting posts on his site, about bringing up his daughter. I really liked his post about Santa Claus. And if you read his post on Santa Claus, you’ll see a relationship of parents and children to fiction and lies (he doesn’t mean that in a pejorative way, and I’m leaving that connotation open, but there’s a crucial difference between the story of the Little Red Hen and the story of Santa Claus that just the broad brush of “fiction” doesn’t cover.)
I found it interesting because on the two peas forums, they discuss how some parents will tell their kids that Santa Claus won’t come if the kids are bad; thus making SC into an authority figure. And there’s an interesting connection of all thoe concepts that I don’t feel comfortable pursuing right now because I know that the DQ reads these posts :).
Anyway, his daughter ( Iris ) is “not a vegetarian”. He’s explained that meat comes from animals to her, and she’s pretty comfortable with relevation. It was apparently prompted by her inadvertent exposure to the movie Charlotte’s Web ( on a plane flight ) and how Wilbur is in danger of becoming a ham.
I liked his story of taking her to the chinese food place and feeding her fish that was caught specifically for her. She’s a fun kid.f
