The Vegan Kids Room - vegan parenting information, advice, support and photos. Geriatric relatives believe you are depriving your children of essential nutrients such as protein and calcium by excluding animal products from your diet. School teachers can view you as eccentric. Other parents have their own issues and sometimes view you as incorrect in your choice of diet to maintain their own beliefs.
Some vegans have criticism from the medical profession.
Support from other vegan families is the best antidote for living in a non-vegan world with vegan kids, but with us vegans being rather thin on the ground in many places this can be difficult. Dr. Michael Klaper's 'Pregnancy, Children and the vegan diet' is a good book to show anyone who queries the wisdom of bringing your children up as vegans. Dr. Benjamin Spock also advocates veganism for children in the last edition of 'Baby and Child Care'. Another good book with a chapter on vegan mothers and babies is Gill Langley's 'Vegan Nutrition'. Plamil foods have published a booklet called 'Vegan Infants Case Histories' which shows that vegan children grow up healthy and strong on a plant based diet - it has input from a dietician, GP, midwife, daily menu ideas and photos.