vege kid pretending not to be.

[okura]

i am just wondering if this is typical of vege kids or if i need to work through some things with my 4 yr old.
when she is play cooking in her kitchen she usually makes some meat dishes and pretends that she eats meat. she'll say, 'are you a vegetarian? i'm not'. or 'pretend you aren't a vegetarian okay' - this is all in character though, she knows its a game.
but in REAL life she'll say meat is gross and stinky and has never really shown an interest in eating meat, even though her dad does.
what do you think??

[ursusarctos]

I was raised veggie and I would do exactly that. I think it's normal.

FWIW my siblings and I would also pretend to "cook" our barbies in meat dishes at one point I have no idea where that came from, and our parents were disturbed but we turned out fairly normal in the end. Kids are just weird!

[mumkimum]

My dd is 3.5 and does this too - dh eats meat and she understands that not everyone is vegetarian, so I think it's just a way of exploring that.

[mommajb]

We are not omni and I did need to explain to one of my children that omnis do not eat everything. I introduced the term because she had taken to calling people meats and vegetables. As in, "I am a vegetable but Grandma is a meat."

It was so wrong in so many ways.

[tanyalynn]

My kids have food intolerances and don't eat gluten or dairy, but they'll often pretend to eat both. I think it's part of exploring the differences between them and other people.

[okura]

ok, thanks. i guess she is exploring and working it all out for herself.