My son was grilled by his friend's parents over my veganism when he was 6 years old!. Fortunately he had most of the answers. It did lead to me falling out with the other mother though. At the time my son was vegetarian. He went vegan when he was 7, through his own choice, and continued to be interrogated, mostly by adults who really should know better. Whilst I think it's very wrong for an adult to do this to a child (I spoke to every adult that did it and told them to refer any questions to ME!), my son was educated enough to be able to answer 99% of the questions by himself (he wouldn't have gone vegan had he not understood why).
BTW, I wish I had raised my son completely vegan from the offset. Unfortunately, after being vegan myself for 4 years before he was born, I reverted back to vegetarianism - for reasons I'm not completely clear on now . So he was raised vegetarian, but not because I think its 'wrong' to raise a child as vegan. I won't be having more children, but if I did, they would (of course) be raised vegan from birth. I went back to veganism when my son was 5 and as I say, he soon followed suit .
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