My Purple Hayes Daze

So far, I’ve received good advice on how to handle the inevitably non-vegan International Thanksgiving feast that is being planned at Hayes’s school next week.  But since I had not yet settled on sending him to school with a bowl of sweet potatoes flavored with soy butter to share with his friends or not sending him at all, I decided to consult the food sign-up list for some direction.  I hadn’t even read half-way down the page when my mind was made up and my decision firm:  Hayes is most definitely not going to school next Wednesday.

Now this whole Thanksgiving-thing has me thinking:  Hayes is vegan.  The world is not.  How am I going to do this?  Unless I expect him to ditch every non-vegan social situation (which I don’t), I’m going to have to get strategic about how to raise him to be OK with being vegan no matter what situation arises.

Then, I remember a book my dear friend Carmen told me about.  It’s called Raising Vegan Children in a Non-Vegan World.  And it’s just the kind of thing I’m looking for.  So, I googled it and clicked on the Amazon link for a look.  When I read the subtitle, “A Complete Guide for Parents,” I knew I had hit the jackpot.  A manual is exactly what I need.

What’s cool about Amazon is that it gives you the option of searching inside the book, which I did.  The table of contents alone had me reeling with excitement.  And after I read a few introductory pages, I had decided this book was the key to me figuring out how to best raise Hayes to be OK with being vegan.  So, I perused the price list section.  Click here for what I saw next.

(Sigh).