A WOMAN is being blasted by her entire family for feeding her vegan niece meat, despite the little girl asking to try it.
She admitted she’s not sure if she really did anything wrong, and took to the internet to gauge whether her actions were warranted.
The woman, who vented about her situation in an anonymous post to Reddit, said her sister, “S,” is vegan and forces her seven-year-old child, “N,” to be.
She went on to explain that she was asked by S to babysit N for the weekend, and she happily accepted.
“I took N to the grocery store and we bought some vegan food for her.
“We bought our groceries and went home.
“I prepared lunch for her and everything was fine,” the poster recalled.
Around 10pm that night, the woman recalled that her niece said she was hungry and “asked for some meat.”
“I hesitated, but I’m not going to force her to be vegan.
“I gave her some chicken and she loved it,” the woman wrote.
However, issues started when the woman’s niece refused to eat anything but chicken the next day.
However, she said she didn’t stop her niece from eating the chicken.
Everything was fine until the woman’s niece went home and continued wanting to eat meat.
The poster claimed her sister called her and yelled at her for feeding N meat and banned her from babysitting her ever again.
The woman said her parents also shamed her over the situation.
The woman concluded her post by asking the internet if she was actually in the wrong – and according to the internet, she wasn’t.
“I believe your niece is old enough to have a say in what she eats,” one person who said they support veganism wrote.
“In my opinion, if they’re old enough to have a conversation, they’re old enough to decide what foods they want in their body.
“It’s a parent’s job to ensure they have a healthy, balanced diet, but that doesn’t mean forcing a vegan diet on them.”
“If your niece asked for meat, then she’s not actually vegan, just forced to eat a vegan diet,” another supporter wrote.
Yet a third reader added: “Your niece is going to be in plenty of situations where she has the option to eat meat if she wants, the fact that her mom can’t deal with that is not your problem.”
Parenting other people’s children is often a touchy subject and can cause severe issues when rules and expectations are not followed in a way that satisfies the parents.
For instance, one mother revealed she refuses to leave her newborn alone with her mother-in-law because she won’t feed the baby her breastmilk.
Plus, another woman barred her mother-in-law’s friend from babysitting her kids after she tried convincing them she was their real mom.
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